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Premier Foods plc held its Annual General Meeting on 18 July 2024, where all 21 proposed resolutions were passed with the required majorities by way of a poll. Shareholder votes cast for resolutions ranged from 82.60% to 83.29% of the Issued Share Capital, with 'for' votes between 89.48% and 100.00% and 'against' votes between 0.00% and 10.52%.
| Date | 18 Jul 2024 |
| Time | 14:18:44 |
| Category | AGMs and other meetings |
| ID | 9840W |
18 July 2024
Premier Foods plc
('Premier Foods' or the 'Company')
Annual General Meeting 2024
Results of AGM
Premier Foods announces that at the Company's AGM, held today, all of the resolutions proposed were passed with the required majorities by way of a poll.
The poll results are set out below and will also be available on the Company's website later today: www.premierfoods.co.uk
|
Resolution |
For |
% |
Against |
% |
Total cast |
% of ISC voted |
Votes withheld* |
|
1. To receive the 2023/24 annual report. |
722,839,057 |
100.00 |
2,607 |
0.00 |
722,841,664 |
83.20% |
824,825 |
|
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report. |
703,651,207 |
98.05 |
14,006,208 |
1.95 |
717,657,415 |
82.60% |
6,009,074 |
|
3. To approve a final dividend. |
723,648,589 |
100.00 |
784 |
0.00 |
723,649,373 |
83.29% |
17,116 |
|
4. To elect Malcolm Waugh as a director. |
723,471,556 |
99.99 |
106,649 |
0.01 |
723,578,205 |
83.29% |
88,284 |
|
5. To re-elect Colin Day as a director. |
712,820,579 |
98.51 |
10,787,211 |
1.49 |
723,607,790 |
83.29% |
58,699 |
|
6. To re-elect Alex Whitehouse as a director. |
723,485,745 |
99.98 |
122,091 |
0.02 |
723,607,836 |
83.29% |
58,653 |
|
7. To re-elect Duncan Leggett as a director. |
722,544,409 |
99.85 |
1,063,771 |
0.15 |
723,608,180 |
83.29% |
58,309 |
|
8. To re-elect Roisin Donnelly as a director. |
722,683,796 |
99.88 |
899,187 |
0.12 |
723,582,983 |
83.29% |
83,506 |
|
9. To re-elect Tim Elliott as a director. |
722,713,409 |
99.88 |
871,453 |
0.12 |
723,584,862 |
83.29% |
81,627 |
|
10. To re-elect Tania Howarth as a director. |
717,076,426 |
99.10 |
6,529,277 |
0.90 |
723,605,703 |
83.29% |
60,786 |
|
11. To re-elect Helen Jones as a director. |
720,653,650 |
99.60 |
2,924,210 |
0.40 |
723,577,860 |
83.29% |
88,629 |
|
12. To re-elect Yuichiro Kogo as a director. |
723,429,884 |
99.98 |
155,470 |
0.02 |
723,585,354 |
83.29% |
81,135 |
|
13. To re-elect Lorna Tilbian as a director. |
715,530,558 |
98.88 |
8,074,808 |
1.12 |
723,605,366 |
83.29% |
61,123 |
|
14. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor. |
723,464,555 |
99.99 |
68,349 |
0.01 |
723,532,904 |
83.28% |
133,585 |
|
15. To approve the remuneration of the auditor. |
723,510,663 |
100.00 |
32,290 |
0.00 |
723,542,953 |
83.28% |
123,536 |
|
16. To approve the authority to make political donations. |
704,273,562 |
97.33 |
19,339,468 |
2.67 |
723,613,030 |
83.29% |
53,459 |
|
17. To approve the 2024 Sharesave Plan. |
722,331,027 |
99.83 |
1,264,866 |
0.17 |
723,595,893 |
83.29% |
70,596 |
|
18. To approve the authority to allot shares. |
647,472,885 |
89.48 |
76,141,477 |
10.52 |
723,614,362 |
83.29% |
52,127 |
|
19. To renew the authority to disapply pre-emption rights. |
711,529,763 |
98.51 |
10,751,756 |
1.49 |
722,281,519 |
83.14% |
1,384,970 |
|
20. To renew the authority to disapply pre-emption rights for an acquisition or a specified capital investment. |
711,767,130 |
98.37 |
11,808,449 |
1.63 |
723,575,579 |
83.28% |
90,910 |
|
21. To approve the notice period for general meetings. |
715,362,720 |
98.86 |
8,262,868 |
1.14 |
723,625,588 |
83.29% |
40,901 |
*A vote withheld is not counted as a vote in law and therefore is not counted in the % of votes "for" or "against" a resolution. The total number of shares in issue as at 16 July 2024 was 868,795,815 ordinary shares of 10p each.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions in respect of the special business approved at the AGM will be submitted to the Financial Conduct Authority's National Storage Mechanism (NSM), and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
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For further information contact:
Simon Rose
General Counsel & Company Secretary
Tel: 01727 815850