Dairy Crest Group PLC Result of AGM (0523T)
July 14 2015 - 11:56AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 0523T
Dairy Crest Group PLC
14 July 2015
Dairy Crest Group plc
Results of Annual General Meeting held on 14 July 2015
Dairy Crest Group plc announces that at its Annual General
Meeting held today at One Wood Street, London EC2V 7WS, all of the
resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by
shareholders by means of a poll vote.
The votes cast were as follows:
Resolution For(1) Against Votes Withheld(2)
No. of shares % No. of shares %
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Receive & adopt Report
& Accounts for the
year ended 31 March
1 2015 71,493,191 99.91 66,481 0.09 133,470
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Approval of Directors'
2 Remuneration Policy** 45,426,747 63.43 26,190,774 36.57 75,621
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Declare final dividend
of 15.7 pence per ordinary
3 share 71,650,586 100.00 0 0 42,556
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Re-elect Mark Allen
4 as a Director 71,222,058 99.46 388,270 0.54 82,814
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Re-elect Tom Atherton
5 as a Director 71,311,367 99.59 295,972 0.41 85,803
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Re-elect Stephen Alexander
6 as a Director 71,194,248 99.43 405,905 0.57 92,989
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Re-elect Andrew Carr-Locke
7 as a Director 71,274,776 99.62 269,631 0.38 148,735
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Re-elect Sue Farr as
8 a Director 71,137,455 99.35 466,648 0.65 89,039
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Re-elect Richard Macdonald
9 as a Director 70,684,118 99.73 189,165 0.27 819,859
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Re-appoint Ernst &
10 Young LLP as auditors 68,380,994 95.47 3,244,650 4.53 67,498
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Authorise Directors
to determine Auditor's
11 remuneration 68,551,002 95.70 3,082,477 4.30 59,663
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Allow general meetings
to be called on at
12* least 14 days' notice 64,080,713 89.45 7,557,614 10.55 54,815
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Authorise incurring
13 political expenditure 67,628,834 94.45 3,973,351 5.55 90,957
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Authorise allotment
14 of equity securities 71,201,475 99.43 409,155 0.57 82,512
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Disapplication of pre-emption
15* rights 71,493,976 99.82 126,088 0.18 73,078
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Authorise Directors
to make market purchases
16* of shares of the Company 71,578,800 99.91 65,242 0.09 49,100
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Notes:
1 The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.
2 A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in
the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each
resolution.
3 Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received.
4 Voting was conducted by poll.
5 The total number of proxy votes cast was 71,693,142
representing 52.02% of voting capital as at 10 July 2015. At the
close of business on 10 July 2015, the issued share capital of the
Company was 137,813,751 ordinary shares (no shares are held in
Treasury).
6 * Denotes a Special Resolution.
7 **Whilst we note that resolution 2 was passed with a majority
of 63%, 37% of the vote was not supportive of the resolution. We
intend to write to shareholders to understand the basis of their
concerns.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of
Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the
National Storage Mechanism http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do and also
on the Company's website at
http://www.dairycrest.co.uk/investors
In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of
the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary
business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage
Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at
http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do
For further enquiries please contact:
Robin Miller, Company Secretary +44 (0)1372 472252
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