Result of AGM

RNS Number : 4191H

Whitbread PLC

19 June 2013

 



Whitbread PLC - AGM Resolutions			19 June 2013
Whitbread PLC announces that all 23 resolutions at the Annual General Meeting held yesterday were
passed on a poll.  The results are as follows:
AGM Resolutions	For	Against	Withheld
			For information only
1. To receive the Annual Report and	110,892,347	5,833	1,426,101
Accounts for the year ended 28 February 2013
2. To approve the Remuneration Report	108,910,620	1,673,016	1,739,866
3. To declare a final dividend of 37.90p per	112,299,925	2,837	20,644
ordinary share
4. To elect Nicholas Cadbury as a director	111,875,439	396,311	55,093
5. To elect Louise Smalley as a director	111,886,040	389,596	50,857
6. To re-elect Richard Baker as a director	110,436,330	437,503	1,451,959
7. To re-elect Wendy Becker as a director	110,436,012	440,671	1,449,341
8. To re-elect Ian Cheshire as a director	111,933,718	337,174	54,039
9. To re-elect Patrick Dempsey as a director	111,890,844	383,455	51,636
10. To re-elect Anthony Habgood as a director	111,105,074	582,914	638,270
11. To re-elect Andy Harrison as a director	111,887,248	385,057	53,943
12. To re-elect Susan Hooper as a director	111,940,850	331,841	53,117
13. To re-elect Simon Melliss as a director	111,939,753	330,065	55,817
14. To re-elect Christopher Rogers as a director	111,880,881	384,942	59,770
15. To re-elect Susan Taylor Martin as a director	111,946,103	325,568	54,011
16. To re-elect Stephen Williams as a director	111,935,538	335,229	55,465
17. To re-appoint the auditor	111,652,574	54,398	617,000
18. To authorise the Board to set the auditor's	111,668,129	41,405	616,331
remuneration
19. To renew the authority given to the Board	98,244,524	13,828,844	251,737
to allot shares
20. To increase the limit on directors' fees set out in Article 87 of the Company's Articles of Association from £500,000 to £700,000 a year	111,707,988	405,086	211,719
21.  To renew the authority given to the Board to allot equity securities for cash other than on a pro rata basis including authority to sell treasury shares	112,060,247	173,612	86,533
22. To give the Company authority to purchase	110,249,895	635,369	1,441,047
its ordinary shares
23. To authorise the Company to call general	105,117,596	7,163,499	41,889
meetings other than an Annual General Meeting
on reduced notice

A copy of all the resolutions passed, other than those concerning ordinary business, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: http://www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.'

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Contact:  Daren Lowry, Head of Secretariat & Risk Management, 01582 889346

 

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