Correction: Result of General Meeting

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Johnson Matthey Plc has corrected its announcement regarding the results of its 2026 General Meeting, confirming that all resolutions were passed. Notably, a special dividend of 476.5 pence per Existing Ordinary Share was approved with 99.97% of votes in favour. The company also secured approval for a share consolidation and for directors to allot shares, with 96.33% of votes in favour. Applications have been made for the admission of 132,965,322 New Ordinary Shares, each valued at 147 pence, to the Official List and the London Stock Exchange's main market, which will result in a total of 126,126,498 voting rights.

Disclaimer*

Johnson Matthey PLC
11 August 2026
 

11 August 2026

Johnson Matthey Plc - Correction: Results of 2026 GM

 

The following amendment has been made to the "Result of General Meeting on 11 August 2026" announcement released on 11 August 2026 at 11:09 under RNS number 2088Q.

 

The Listing and Trading Application section should have read as follows:

Application has been made to the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and to trade on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities for total of 132,965,322 New Ordinary Shares 147  pence each to be admitted. The total number of voting rights will be 126,126,498 New Ordinary Shares 147  pence each.

 

All other details remain unchanged.

 

The full amended text of the announcement is shown below.

 

 

Result of General Meeting on 11 August 2026


Johnson Matthey Plc announces that at today's General Meeting all resolutions were passed on a poll. The result of the poll is set out below.

Resolution 

For 

% For* 

Against 

%

Against* 

Votes Total 

% of
Issued
Share
Capital 

Votes

Withheld** 

1.   To declare a special dividend of 476.5 pence per Existing Ordinary Share.

123,622,764

 99.97%

 42,218

 0.03%

123,664,982

 73.54%

 21,967

2.   To approve the share consolidation of 4 Existing Ordinary Shares into one Intermediate Ordinary Shares, to be subsequently divided into 3 New Ordinary Shares.

123,467,110

 99.88%

151,266

 0.12%

123,618,376

 73.51%

 60,473

3.     To authorise the directors to allot shares.

119,049,782

 96.33%

4,540,419

 3.67%

123,590,201

 73.49%

 88,648

4.     To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares.***

115,521,585

 93.49%

8,046,174

 6.51%

123,567,759

 73.48%

 111,090

5.     To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares in connection with an acquisition
or other capital investment.***

113,410,260

 91.78%

10,160,168

 8.22%

123,570,428

 73.48%

 108,421

6.     To authorise the company to make market purchases of its own shares.***

121,048,018

 98.12%

2,315,953

 1.88%

123,363,971

 73.36%

 322,878

 

*          Figures shown are percentages of total votes cast excluding votes withheld

**     A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes for or against a resolution

***   Special Resolutions

The total number of voting rights was 168,168,664 Ordinary Shares of 110  pence.

Copies of our announcements are available on our website: https://matthey.com/investors/regulatorynews

In accordance with UK Listing Rule 6.4.2, a copy of all resolutions passed as special business will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism document viewing facility at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

Full text of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of General Meeting which forms part of the Circular dated 27 July 2026. Capitalised terms used but not otherwise defined in this announcement have the same meaning given to them in the Circular dated 27 July 2026.

Listing and Trading Application

 

Application has been made to the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and to trade on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities for a total of 132,965,322 New Ordinary Shares 147  pence each to be admitted. The total number of voting rights will be 126,126,498 New Ordinary Shares 147  pence each.

ENDS

Enquiries: 



Investor Relations

 

 

Louise Curran

Head of Investor Relations

+44 20 7269 8235

Media



Gill Corish

Head of External Communications (Interim)

+44 20 7269 8001

Guy Bates

Kekst CNC

+44 7581 056 415

 

 

 

Johnson Matthey Plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (JMAT)

Registered in England & Wales number: 00033774
Legal Entity Identifier number: 2138001AVBSD1HSC6Z10

 

 

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