Dairy Crest Group PLC Results of AGM held on 19 July 2016 (7226E)
July 20 2016 - 4:23AM
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Dairy Crest Group PLC
20 July 2016
Dairy Crest Group plc
Results of Annual General Meeting held on 19 July 2016
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)
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No. of % No. of %
shares shares
---- ------------------------ ----------- ------ ---------- ----- -------------
Receive & adopt
Report & Accounts
for the year ended
1 31 March 2016 75,787,143 99.99 5,630 0.01 528,531
---- ------------------------ ----------- ------ ---------- ----- -------------
Approval of Directors'
2 Remuneration Report 69,996,972 92.31 5,835,040 7.69 489,292
---- ------------------------ ----------- ------ ---------- ----- -------------
Declare final
dividend of 16
pence per ordinary
3 share 76,129,656 99.81 148,719 0.19 42,929
---- ------------------------ ----------- ------ ---------- ----- -------------
Re-elect Mark
4 Allen as a Director 76,205,122 99.93 51,316 0.07 64,866
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Re-elect Tom Atherton
5 as a Director 75,906,697 99.54 350,634 0.46 63,973
---- ------------------------ ----------- ------ ---------- ----- -------------
Re-elect Stephen
Alexander as a
6 Director 75,629,260 99.78 165,992 0.22 526,052
---- ------------------------ ----------- ------ ---------- ----- -------------
Re-elect Andrew
Carr-Locke as
7 a Director 76,098,056 99.79 159,389 0.21 63,859
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Re-elect Sue Farr
8 as a Director 75,919,921 99.56 336,313 0.44 65,070
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Re-elect Richard
Macdonald as a
9 Director 73,634,132 96.55 2,630,298 3.45 56,874
---- ------------------------ ----------- ------ ---------- ----- -------------
Re-appoint Ernst
& Young LLP as
10 auditors 76,012,750 99.66 256,400 0.34 52,154
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Authorise Directors
to determine Auditor's
11 remuneration 76,043,242 99.7 228,104 0.3 49,958
---- ------------------------ ----------- ------ ---------- ----- -------------
Allow general
meetings to be
called on at least
12* 14 days' notice 71,721,157 94.03 4,555,396 5.97 44,751
---- ------------------------ ----------- ------ ---------- ----- -------------
Authorise incurring
13 political expenditure 72,772,226 95.47 3,452,355 4.53 96,723
---- ------------------------ ----------- ------ ---------- ----- -------------
Authorise allotment
14 of equity securities 76,010,652 99.67 248,004 0.33 62,648
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Disapplication
of pre-emption
rights (1(st)
15* 5%) 76,135,875 99.81 145,839 0.19 39,590
---- ------------------------ ----------- ------ ---------- ----- -------------
Disapplication
of pre-emption
rights (2(nd)
16* 5%) 73,979,755 97.04 2,256,041 2.96 85,508
---- ------------------------ ----------- ------ ---------- ----- -------------
Authorise the
Company to Purchase
17* Its Own Shares 75,668,802 99.26 565,913 0.74 86,589
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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 * Denotes a Special Resolution.
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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