BELLWAY p.l.c. (the 'Company')
Results of Annual General Meeting ('AGM')
06 December 2021
The Company is pleased to announce that at the AGM held earlier today, shareholders passed each of the ordinary and special resolutions by the requisite majorities on a poll. The full text of each resolution is contained in the Notice of AGM, which is available on the Company's website, www.bellwayplc.co.uk
The total number of votes cast for each resolution is set out in the table below. Resolutions 1 to 13 (inclusive) are ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 to 17 (inclusive) are special resolutions.
Total proxy | Proxy | In favour * | Against | Withheld | ||||
cards | ||||||||
votes cast | Votes | % | Votes | % | Shares | |||
Resolution | received | |||||||
1. To receive and adopt the | ||||||||
Accounts, the Directors' | ||||||||
Report and the Auditor's | 91,687,101 | 422 | 91,682,575 | 99.99 | 4,526 | 0.01 | 874,880 | |
Report thereon, and the | ||||||||
auditable part of the | ||||||||
Remuneration Report. | ||||||||
2. To approve the | ||||||||
Remuneration Report | 92,546,271 | 422 | 91,041,126 | 98.37 | 1,505,145 | 1.63 | 15,710 | |
except for the Directors' | ||||||||
Remuneration Policy. | ||||||||
3. To approve the Directors' | 92,355,771 | 422 | 89,540,335 | 96.95 | 2,815,436 | 3.05 | 206,210 | |
Remuneration Policy. | ||||||||
4. To declare a final | 92,552,057 | 422 | 92,424,480 | 99.86 | 127,577 | 0.14 | 9,924 | |
dividend. | ||||||||
5. To re-elect Mr P N | ||||||||
Hampden Smith as a | 91,788,055 | 422 | 91,023,776 | 99.17 | 764,279 | 0.83 | 773,926 | |
director of the Company. | ||||||||
6. To re-elect Mr J M | ||||||||
Honeyman as a director of | 92,547,947 | 422 | 92,277,727 | 99.71 | 270,220 | 0.29 | 14,034 | |
the Company. | ||||||||
7. To re-elect Mr K D Adey | ||||||||
as a director of the | 92,547,947 | 422 | 91,846,026 | 99.24 | 701,921 | 0.76 | 14,034 | |
Company. | ||||||||
8. To re-elect Mrs D N | ||||||||
Jagger as a director of the | 92,547,747 | 422 | 92,239,158 | 99.67 | 308,589 | 0.33 | 14,234 | |
Company. | ||||||||
9. To re-elect Ms J Caseberry | ||||||||
as a director of the | 92,547,747 | 422 | 91,357,049 | 98.71 | 1,190,698 | 1.29 | 14,234 | |
Company. | ||||||||
10. To re-elect Mr I McHoul | ||||||||
as a director of the | 92,548,733 | 422 | 83,703,156 | 90.44 | 8,845,577 | 9.56 | 13,248 | |
Company. | ||||||||
11. To appoint Ernst & | ||||||||
Young LLP as the auditor of | 92,551,809 | 422 | 91,547,094 | 98.91 | 1,004,715 | 1.09 | 10,172 | |
the Company. | ||||||||
12. To authorise the Audit | ||||||||
Committee to agree the | 92,550,061 | 422 | 92,517,432 | 99.96 | 32,629 | 0.04 | 11,920 | |
auditor's remuneration. | ||||||||
13. To authorise the | 92,558,923 | 422 | 89,883,088 | 97.11 | 2,675,835 | 2.89 | 3,058 | |
directors to allot shares. | ||||||||
14. To exclude the | ||||||||
application of pre-emption | 91,541,102 | 422 | 89,182,888 | 97.42 | 2,358,214 | 2.58 | 1,020,879 | |
rights to the allotment of | ||||||||
equity securities. |
15. Subject to the approval of Resolution 13 to further
exclude the application of | 91,520,293 | 422 | 87,257,162 | 95.34 | 4,263,131 | 4.66 | 1,041,688 |
pre-emption rights to the | |||||||
allotment of equity | |||||||
securities. | |||||||
16. To authorise market | |||||||
purchases of the Company's 92,377,514 | 422 | 91,290,387 | 98.82 | 1,087,127 | 1.18 | 184,467 | |
own ordinary shares. | |||||||
17. To allow the Company | |||||||
to hold general meetings | 92,551,932 | 422 | 90,384,110 | 97.66 | 2,167,822 | 2.34 | 10,049 |
(other than AGMs) at 14 | |||||||
days' notice. |
The percentage of votes cast exclude Withheld votes. *Votes in favour include votes at Chairman's discretion. The total number of votes cast: 92,558,923.
Number of shares in issue and therefore the total number of voting rights: 123,401,351.
Number of shareholders at meeting date: 2,650.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions (other than those resolutions comprising ordinary business) passed by the Company at its AGM have been uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
Name of contact and telephone number for queries:
Simon Scougall
Group General Counsel and Company Secretary
Bellway p.l.c.
Tel: 0191 217 0717
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