The 2016 Annual General Meeting of Imperial Tobacco Group PLC was held at the Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre, 2 Lower Castle Street, Old Market, Bristol, BS1 3AD on Wednesday 3 February 2016 at 2.30 pm.
All resolutions were decided on a poll and all resolutions proposed at the Meeting were passed.
The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions put before the Meeting and the number of votes withheld were as follows:
Resolution
Votes For
Percentage For
Votes Against
Votes Total
Votes Withheld
1
Annual Report and Accounts
743,158,794
99.99
42,191
743,200,985
2,705,471
2
Directors' Remuneration Report
693,449,508
94.80
38,042,663
731,492,171
14,414,282
3
To declare a final dividend
743,201,759
100.00
14,225
743,215,984
2,690,572
4
Re-elect A J Cooper
739,974,240
99.60
3,001,517
742,975,757
2,930,698
5
Re-elect D J Haines
736,557,236
99.11
6,610,171
743,167,407
2,739,049
6
Re-elect M H C Herlihy
742,203,921
99.87
961,309
743,165,230
2,741,226
7
Re-elect M R Phillips
736,796,862
99.14
6,368,992
743,165,854
2,740,300
8
Re-elect O R Tant
733,884,452
98.75
9,280,375
743,164,827
2,741,628
9
Re-elect M D Williamson
740,226,619
99.61
2,932,846
743,159,465
2,746,990
10
Re-elect K Witts
742,199,066
99.87
963,337
743,162,403
2,743,731
11
Re-elect M I Wyman
741,913,154
99.83
1,254,511
743,167,665
2,738,791
12
Re-appointment of Auditors
718,125,245
97.32
19,779,798
737,905,043
8,001,412
13
Remuneration of Auditors
726,783,382
98.52
10,924,917
737,708,299
8,198,156
14
Donations to political organisations
728,932,098
98.91
8,032,821
736,964,919
8,941,635
15
Authority to allot securities
737,620,871
99.28
5,320,286
742,941,157
2,965,299
16
Disapplication of pre-emption rights
737,603,677
99.26
5,529,396
743,133,073
2,773,383
17
Purchase of own shares
740,972,835
99.71
2,144,483
743,117,318
2,789,238
18
Change of Company name
742,279,381
99.89
781,973
743,061,354
2,845,202
19
Notice period for general meetings
667,779,539
89.88
75,176,617
742,956,156
2,950,262
Notes
a. The 'for' vote includes those giving the Chairman discretion and the percentage is rounded to two decimal places.
b. 'Votes withheld' are not counted when deciding whether or not a resolution is carried.
c. Resolutions 16 to 19 are special resolutions.
d. The total number of ordinary shares of 10 pence each, in issue, excluding shares held in treasury as at 6.00pm on 3 February 2016 were 958,710,863.
T M Williams
Deputy Company Secretary
Telephone 0117 933 7410
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Imperial Brands PLC is one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of tobacco products. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- manufacture and sale of traditional and new generation tobacco products (66.7%): cigarettes (brands Davidoff, JPS, Parker & Simpson, Fine, West, Lambert & Butler, Winston, News, Bastos, Kool, Gauloises, L&B, Knox, etc.), cigars (Backwoods and Dutch Masters brands), electronic cigarettes (Blu brand), heated tobaccos (Pulze brand), sucking tobaccos (Skruf brand), rolling papers (No. 1 worldwide; Rizla brand);
- distribution of tobacco products (33.3%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United Kingdom (12.1%), Germany (12.7%), the United States (11.3%), France (10.6%), and other (53.3%).