Result of 2025 AGM
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19 NOVEMBER 2025
SMITHS GROUP PLC
RESULT OF AGM
Smiths Group plc (the 'Company') announces that the following resolutions were duly passed at the Company's Annual General Meeting ('AGM') which was held at 11.00am on 19 November 2025. The results of the poll vote for each resolution are as follows:
|
|
|
VOTES |
% OF VOTES CAST FOR |
VOTES |
% OF VOTES CAST AGAINST |
VOTES |
VOTES CAST AS A % OF ISC |
VOTES |
|
1 |
Receipt of Report and Accounts |
239,153,109 |
100.00 |
6,356 |
0.00 |
239,159,465 |
73.56% |
860,493 |
|
2 |
Declaration of a final dividend |
239,953,802 |
100.00 |
328 |
0.00 |
239,954,130 |
73.81% |
65,828 |
|
3 |
Approval of Directors' Remuneration Report |
230,973,139 |
96.27 |
8,959,508 |
3.73 |
239,932,647 |
73.80% |
87,311 |
|
4 |
Election of Julian Fagge as a Director |
236,214,630 |
98.44 |
3,735,041 |
1.56 |
239,949,671 |
73.81% |
70,287 |
|
5 |
Election of Simon Pryce as a Director |
237,080,095 |
98.81 |
2,866,856 |
1.19 |
239,946,951 |
73.81% |
73,007 |
|
6 |
Re-election of Roland Carter as a Director |
238,378,671 |
99.35 |
1,571,261 |
0.65 |
239,949,932 |
73.81% |
70,026 |
|
7 |
Re-election of Pam Cheng as a Director |
239,922,957 |
99.99 |
26,731 |
0.01 |
239,949,688 |
73.81% |
70,270 |
|
8 |
Re-election of Alister Cowan as a Director |
223,561,436 |
93.15 |
16,440,583 |
6.85 |
240,002,019 |
73.82% |
17,939 |
|
9 |
Re-election of Dame Ann Dowling as a Director |
230,489,482 |
96.06 |
9,464,482 |
3.94 |
239,953,964 |
73.81% |
65,994 |
|
10 |
Re-election of Richard Howes as a Director |
223,593,171 |
93.18 |
16,355,612 |
6.82 |
239,948,783 |
73.81% |
71,175 |
|
11 |
Re-election of Steve Williams as a Director |
192,754,719 |
80.64 |
46,286,602 |
19.36 |
239,041,321 |
73.53% |
978,637 |
|
12 |
Re-appointment of KPMG LLP as auditors |
237,254,370 |
99.96 |
87,839 |
0.04 |
237,342,209 |
73.00% |
2,677,749 |
|
13 |
Authorise Audit & Risk Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration |
239,648,924 |
99.87 |
304,548 |
0.13 |
239,953,472 |
73.81% |
66,486 |
|
14 |
Authority to make political donations and expenditure |
233,252,002 |
97.64 |
5,646,369 |
2.36 |
238,898,371 |
73.48% |
1,120,587 |
|
15 |
Authority to allot shares |
229,855,602 |
95.79 |
10,095,316 |
4.21 |
239,950,918 |
73.81% |
69,040 |
|
16 |
Authority to disapply pre-emption rights |
228,022,307 |
95.04 |
11,904,298 |
4.96 |
239,926,605 |
73.80% |
93,353 |
|
17 |
Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights |
216,342,216 |
90.16 |
23,603,506 |
9.84 |
239,945,722 |
73.80% |
74,236 |
|
18 |
Authority to make market purchases of shares |
239,705,049 |
99.99 |
23,115 |
0.01 |
239,728,164 |
73.74% |
291,794 |
|
19 |
Authority to call general meetings on not less than 14 clear days' notice |
227,874,205 |
94.97 |
12,074,943 |
5.03 |
239,949,148 |
73.81% |
70,810 |
Notes
As at 6.30 p.m. on 17 November 2025, the Company's issued share capital consisted of 325,109,303
ordinary shares of 37.5p. The Company does not hold any ordinary shares in the capital of the Company in treasury, and therefore, the total voting rights in the Company as at the voting record time were 325,109,303.
Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. Votes withheld are not a vote in law and are therefore not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution. Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for" column.
Resolutions 1 to 15 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 16 to 19 were passed as special resolutions.
In accordance with Listing Rule 6.4.2 copies of the resolutions (other than those resolutions comprising ordinary business) approved by shareholders will be uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
A copy of the voting results shown above will also be made available on the Company's website at www.smiths.com/investors/general-meetings.
Enquiries
Siobhán Andrews, Investor Relations
+44 (0)7920 230093
Tom Steiner, External Communications
+44 (0)7787 415891
Matthew Whyte, Company Secretary
+44 (0)20 7004 1600
Smiths Group plc's LEI number is: 213800MJL6IPZS3ASA11
About Smiths Group
For over 170 years, we have been pioneers of progress, engineering a better future. Our strategy is to be a focused, efficient and value creating industrial engineering company operating in the attractive and growing market segments of energy, industrials and construction. We focus on solving the toughest problems for our customers, helping address critical global needs such as decarbonisation and the ever-increasing demand for process and energy efficiency. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, we employ c.16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries. For more, visit www.smiths.com.
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