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Premier Foods plc

20 July 2017

20 July 2017

Premier Foods plc ('Premier Foods' or the 'Company')

Annual General Meeting 2017

Result of AGM

Premier Foods announces that at the Company's AGM held today all of the resolutions proposed were passed with the required majorities by way of a poll.

The poll results are set out below and will also be available on the Company's website later today: http://www.premierfoods.co.uk/investors/shareholder-centre.

 
 Resolution                  For         %      Against       %        Total        %        Votes 
                                                                        cast        of      withheld* 
                                                                                    ISC 
                                                                                   voted 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 1. To receive 
  the 2016/17 
  annual report.         550,515,215   99.97      179,939    0.03   550,695,154   66.14%      182,852 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 2. To approve 
  the Directors' 
  Remuneration 
  Report.                544,613,759   98.87    6,198,168    1.13   550,811,927   66.15%       66,079 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 3. To approve 
  the Directors' 
  Remuneration 
  Policy.                540,647,973   98.82    6,432,867    1.18   547,080,840   65.70%    3,797,166 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 4. To elect 
  Daniel Wosner 
  as a director.         547,973,076   99.53    2,607,617    0.47   550,580,693   66.12%      297,313 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 5. To re-elect 
  David Beever 
  as a director.         547,847,491   99.48    2,846,055    0.52   550,693,546   66.14%      184,460 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 6. To re-elect 
  Gavin Darby 
  as a director.         547,928,947   99.49    2,801,754    0.51   550,730,701   66.14%      147,305 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 7. To re-elect 
  Richard Hodgson 
  as a director.         548,456,715   99.60    2,189,505    0.40   550,646,220   66.13%      231,786 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 8. To re-elect 
  Tsunao Kijima 
  as a director.         530,496,019   96.33   20,203,162    3.67   550,699,181   66.14%      178,825 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 9. To re-elect 
  Ian Krieger 
  as a director.         549,351,520   99.77    1,279,771    0.23   550,631,291   66.13%      246,715 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 10. To re-elect 
  Jennifer 
  Laing as 
  a director.            549,366,961   99.77    1,272,402    0.23   550,639,363   66.13%      238,643 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 11. To re-elect 
  Alastair 
  Murray as 
  a director.            547,939,328   99.51    2,672,981    0.49   550,612,309   66.13%      265,697 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 12. To re-elect 
  Pam Powell 
  as a director.         549,408,794   99.78    1,228,556    0.22   550,637,350   66.13%      246,262 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 13. To re-appoint 
  KPMG LLP 
  as auditor.            547,342,229   99.97      174,956    0.03   547,517,185   65.76%    3,360,821 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 14. To approve 
  the remuneration 
  of the auditor.        549,647,652   99.79    1,147,770    0.21   550,795,422   66.15%       82,584 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 15. To approve 
  the Premier 
  Foods Deferred 
  Bonus Plan 
  2017.                  548,478,287   99.61    2,170,500    0.39   550,648,787   66.13%      229,219 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 16. To approve 
  the authority 
  to make political 
  donations.             548,962,702   99.66    1,868,600    0.34   550,831,302   66.15%       46,704 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 17. To approve 
  the authority 
  to allot 
  shares.                546,497,623   99.21    4,327,844    0.79   550,825,467   66.15%       52,539 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 18. To renew 
  the authority 
  to disapply 
  pre-emption 
  rights.                548,964,178   99.67    1,799,767    0.33   550,763,945   66.15%      114,061 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 19. To renew 
  the authority 
  to disapply 
  pre-emption 
  rights for 
  an acquisition 
  or a specified 
  capital investment.    489,834,793   88.94   60,915,406   11.06   550,750,199   66.14%      127,807 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 20. To approve 
  the notice 
  period for 
  general meetings.      483,854,133   87.85   66,900,368   12.15   550,754,501   66.15%      123,505 
----------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ------------  -------  ----------- 
 

*A vote withheld is not counted as a vote in law and therefore is not counted in the % of votes "for" or "against" a resolution.

The total number of shares in issue as at 18 July 2017 was 832,660,179 ordinary shares of 10p each.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions in respect of the special business approved at the AGM will shortly be available for inspection on the UK Listing Authority's National Storage Mechanism at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

For further information contact:

Andrew McDonald

General Counsel & Company Secretary

Tel: 01727 815850

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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