Result of AGM

10 April 2014

Smith & Nephew plc

Smith & Nephew announces the results of the voting by poll on the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting held at 2pm on 10 April 2014.

 

Resolution	For/Discretion (Number of votes)	Percentage For/Discretion (%)	Against (Number of votes)	Total votes validly cast	Percentage  of relevant shares in issue (%)	Withheld (Number of votes)
Ordinary resolutions
1. To receive and adopt the audited accounts	622,713,012	99.68	1,992,306	624,705,318	69.85	5,045,140
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy	586,941,104	93.50	40,818,512	627,759,616	70.19	1,990,842
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (excluding Policy)	615,870,158	97.97	12,774,146	628,644,304	70.29	1,106,154
4. To declare a final dividend	628,770,101	100.00	13,169	628,783,270	70.31	967,178
5. To re-elect Ian Barlow	621,147,090	98.82	7,417,483	628,564,573	70.28	1,185,885
6. To re-elect Olivier Bohuon	594,977,861	94.66	33,578,887	628,556,748	70.28	1,193,710
7. To re-elect The Rt. Hon Baroness Virginia Bottomley	626,993,802	99.72	1,764,180	628,697,982	70.30	1,052,476
8. To re-elect Julie Brown	624,669,673	99.36	4,039,988	628,709,661	70.30	1,040,797
9. To re-elect Michael Friedman	626,877,714	99.73	1,683,581	628,561,295	70.28	1,189,163
10. To re-elect Pamela Kirby	622,269,044	99.07	5,850,003	628,119,047	70.23	1,631,411
11. To re-elect Brian Larcombe	614,885,994	98.38	10,112,056	624,998,050	69.88	4,752,408
12. To re-elect Joseph Papa	620,630,053	98.74	7,931,190	628,561,243	70.28	1,189,215
13. To elect Roberto Quarta	614,101,334	97.74	14,201,797	628,303,131	70.25	1,447,327
14. To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the Auditor	604,710,563	98.18	11,212,693	615,923,256	68.87	13,827,202
15. To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditor	614,150,230	98.94	6,593,008	620,743,238	69.41	9,007,220
16. To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares	597,137,440	94.98	31,566,807	628,704,247	70.30	1,046,211
Special resolutions
17. To renew the Directors' authority for the disapplication of the pre-emption rights	600,116,420	95.46	28,556,622	628,673,042	70.30	1,077,416
18. To renew the Directors' limited authority to make market purchases of the Company's own shares	628,428,141	99.96	264,227	628,692,368	70.30	1,058,090
19. To authorise general meetings to be held on 14 clear days' notice	537,865,394	85.54	90,887,829	628,753,223	70.30	997,235

 

The number of Ordinary Shares in issue on 8 April 2014 at 6pm (excluding shares held in Treasury) was 894,324,750. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.  A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes validly cast.

 

A copy of the Resolutions passed as Special Business at the Annual General Meeting is being submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism document viewing facility at: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

 

Gemma Parsons

Deputy Company Secretary

Smith & Nephew plc

 

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