Haleon plc: Results of Haleon 2024 Annual General Meeting
8 May 2024: Haleon plc (the "Company") (LSE/NYSE: HLN) announces that the following resolutions were decided by poll vote at the Company's 2024 Annual General Meeting ("AGM") which was held today.
Resolutions 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 were passed as special resolutions; all other resolutions were passed as ordinary resolutions. Full text of the resolutions is contained in the Company's Notice of AGM, which is available at www.haleon.com.
Haleon plc - Poll Results
Resolution |
Votes for |
For (% of shares voted) |
Votes against |
Against (% of shares voted) |
Total votes cast (excluding withheld) |
% of issued share capital voted1 |
Votes withheld2 |
|
1 |
To receive the Annual Report & Accounts |
7,919,982,698 |
99.98 |
1,912,695 |
0.02 |
7,921,895,393 |
86.75 |
27,443,703 |
2 |
To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report |
7,586,720,188 |
95.74 |
337,969,514 |
4.26 |
7,924,689,702 |
86.78 |
24,649,536 |
3 |
To declare a final dividend |
7,925,111,048 |
99.98 |
1,306,988 |
0.02 |
7,926,418,036 |
86.80 |
22,921,018 |
4 |
To re-elect Sir Dave Lewis |
7,776,694,667 |
98.12 |
148,882,400 |
1.88 |
7,925,577,067 |
86.79 |
23,760,986 |
5 |
To re-elect Brian McNamara |
7,895,750,784 |
99.62 |
29,983,210 |
0.38 |
7,925,733,994 |
86.79 |
23,604,061 |
6 |
To re-elect Tobias Hestler |
7,862,098,220 |
99.20 |
63,569,514 |
0.80 |
7,925,667,734 |
86.79 |
23,660,869 |
7 |
To re-elect Manvinder Singh (Vindi) Banga |
7,850,438,949 |
99.05 |
75,078,917 |
0.95 |
7,925,517,866 |
86.79 |
23,816,186 |
8 |
To re-elect Marie-Anne Aymerich |
7,875,097,674 |
99.36 |
50,511,000 |
0.64 |
7,925,608,674 |
86.79 |
23,729,379 |
9 |
To re-elect Tracy Clarke |
7,811,967,620 |
98.57 |
113,662,811 |
1.43 |
7,925,630,431 |
86.79 |
23,707,622 |
10 |
To re-elect Dame Vivienne Cox |
7,866,672,212 |
99.26 |
58,970,463 |
0.74 |
7,925,642,675 |
86.79 |
23,695,377 |
11 |
To re-elect Asmita Dubey |
7,900,143,514 |
99.68 |
25,487,188 |
0.32 |
7,925,630,702 |
86.79 |
23,707,349 |
12 |
To re-elect Deirdre Mahlan |
6,982,240,376 |
88.31 |
924,143,645 |
11.69 |
7,906,384,021 |
86.58 |
42,954,032 |
13 |
To re-elect David Denton |
7,889,873,836 |
99.55 |
35,557,933 |
0.45 |
7,925,431,769 |
86.78 |
23,906,285 |
14 |
To re-elect Bryan Supran |
7,890,428,132 |
99.56 |
35,117,662 |
0.44 |
7,925,545,794 |
86.79 |
23,791,864 |
15 |
To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditor of the Company |
7,909,270,829 |
99.79 |
16,746,573 |
0.21 |
7,926,017,402 |
86.79 |
23,320,243 |
16 |
To authorise the Audit & Risk Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditor |
7,924,013,951 |
99.98 |
1,760,576 |
0.02 |
7,925,774,527 |
86.79 |
23,561,370 |
17 |
To authorise the Company to make political donations |
7,860,827,630 |
99.42 |
45,956,705 |
0.58 |
7,906,784,335 |
86.58 |
42,553,903 |
18 |
To authorise the Directors to allot shares |
7,674,156,770 |
96.83 |
250,966,046 |
3.17 |
7,925,122,816 |
86.78 |
24,216,236 |
19 |
General authority to disapply pre-emption rights |
7,708,543,512 |
97.28 |
215,438,109 |
2.72 |
7,923,981,621 |
86.77 |
25,356,460 |
20 |
Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights |
7,612,018,804 |
96.06 |
311,981,315 |
3.94 |
7,924,000,119 |
86.77 |
25,336,232 |
21 |
To shorten the notice period for General Meetings |
7,511,133,326 |
94.77 |
414,387,584 |
5.23 |
7,925,520,910 |
86.79 |
23,816,443 |
22 |
To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares |
7,902,657,875 |
99.73 |
21,458,230 |
0.27 |
7,924,116,105 |
86.77 |
25,218,017 |
23 |
To authorise the Company to make off-market purchases of its own shares from Pfizer3 |
5,857,582,236 |
99.90 |
5,872,298 |
0.10 |
5,863,454,534 |
64.21 |
418,101,609 |
1 For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, Haleon plc's total issued share capital with voting rights as at 6.30pm on Friday 3 May 2024, being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the Company's register of members in order to attend and vote at the AGM, was 9,132,301,104.
2 A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.
3 Pfizer Inc. did not vote any of the ordinary shares held in respect of Resolution 23.
As required by the Listing Rule 9.6.2R of the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA"), copies of resolutions passed by the Company other than resolutions concerning ordinary business have been submitted to the FCA via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available to the public for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
Amanda Mellor
Company Secretary
About Haleon
Haleon (LSE / NYSE: HLN) is a global leader in consumer health, with a purpose to deliver better everyday health with humanity. Haleon's product portfolio spans five major categories - Oral Health, Pain Relief, Respiratory Health, Digestive Health and Other, and Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements (VMS). Its long-standing brands - such as Advil, Sensodyne, Panadol, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, Polident, parodontax and Centrum - are built on trusted science, innovation and deep human understanding.
For more information, please visit www.haleon.com.