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RNS Number : 5274L
Severn Trent PLC
19 July 2017
LEI: 213800RPBXRETY4A4C59
Severn Trent Plc
(the "Company")
Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 19 July 2017
at the Ricoh Arena, Phoenix Way, Coventry CV6 6GE
The Directors are pleased to announce that the shareholders of
Severn Trent Plc passed all the resolutions that were proposed at
this year's Annual General Meeting, as set out in the Notice of
Annual General Meeting dated 22 May 2017.
All of the Resolutions were passed at the Meeting on a poll. The
total number of votes received for each resolution is set out
below.
Resolutions 1 to 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions and
resolutions 17 to 20 were passed as special resolutions.
The Meeting was attended by 77 shareholders.
In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.1 and 9.6.2, a copy of the
resolutions passed at the Meeting, other than resolutions
concerning ordinary business, will be submitted to the UK Listing
Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the
National Storage Mechanism, located at
http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/ and on the Company's website at
https://www.severntrent.com/shareholder-resources/shareholder-meetings/the-agm-2017/
In total, 62.57% of the issued share capital, excluding shares
held in treasury, was voted and the percentages shown below are
rounded to two decimal places.
RESOLUTION VOTES FOR % OF VOTES VOTES AGAINST % OF VOTES VOTES CAST TOTAL VOTES VOTES
CAST CAST IN TOTAL CAST AS A % WITHHELD
OF ISSUED
SHARE
CAPITAL
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Receive the
Reports and
Accounts for
the year
ended
31 March
1 2017 147,622,884 99.98 29,752 0.02 147,652,636 62.54% 66,634
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Approve
Directors'
Remuneration
2 Report 142,422,030 97.30 3,948,356 2.70 146,370,386 62.00% 1,351,934
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Declare a
final
ordinary
3 dividend 147,502,253 99.99 8,145 0.01 147,510,398 62.48% 210,207
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Reappoint
Kevin
4 Beeston 146,847,595 99.47 778,253 0.53 147,625,848 62.53% 94,581
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reappoint
James
5 Bowling 146,748,939 99.48 764,379 0.52 147,513,318 62.48% 207,139
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reappoint
6 John Coghlan 146,695,663 99.44 823,551 0.56 147,519,214 62.48% 200,615
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Reappoint
7 Andrew Duff 146,721,761 99.39 903,378 0.61 147,625,139 62.53% 96,280
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reappoint
Emma
8 FitzGerald 146,774,645 99.48 761,066 0.52 147,535,711 62.49% 196,094
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reappoint
Olivia
9 Garfield 146,836,361 99.53 688,320 0.47 147,524,681 62.49% 196,944
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reappoint
Dominique
10 Reiniche 146,787,309 99.50 735,974 0.50 147,523,283 62.49% 198,302
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Reappoint
Philip
11 Remnant 145,211,774 98.44 2,298,675 1.56 147,510,449 62.48% 203,546
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reappoint
Dr. Angela
12 Strank 146,830,917 99.46 796,574 0.54 147,627,491 62.53% 93,660
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reappoint
Deloitte LLP
13 as Auditor 144,740,965 98.04 2,900,623 1.96 147,641,588 62.54% 79,690
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Authorise
the Audit
Committee
of the Board
to determine
the
remuneration
of the
14 Auditor 146,311,674 99.10 1,333,678 0.90 147,645,352 62.54% 75,342
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Authorise
political
15 donations 144,894,662 98.85 1,692,631 1.15 146,587,293 62.09% 1,134,341
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Authorise
allotment of
16 shares 144,434,256 97.99 2,969,844 2.01 147,404,100 62.43% 315,244
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Disapply
pre-emption
rights
on
up to five
per cent of
the issued
share
17 capital 147,165,390 99.86 210,162 0.14 147,375,552 62.42% 338,761
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Disapply
pre-emption
rights
on up to an
additional
five per
cent of the
issued
share
capital in
connection
with an
acquisition
or
specified
capital
18 investment 144,567,842 98.17 2,700,472 1.83 147,268,314 62.38% 446,243
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Authorise
purchase of
own
19 shares 146,503,548 99.25 1,106,916 0.75 147,610,464 62.52% 103,889
--- ------------- ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ------------- -------------
Reduce
notice
period for
General
20 Meetings 136,219,424 92.75 10,640,965 7.25 146,860,389 62.20% 854,649
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Notes
1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman
have been included in the "for" total.
2. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in
the calculation of the proportion of the votes "for" and "against"
a resolution.
3. Issued ordinary share capital at 17 July 2017: 236,092,755
shares.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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