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Finsbury Food Group PLC
18 November 2021
Date: 18 November 2021
On behalf of: Finsbury Food Group Plc
For immediate release
Finsbury Food Group Plc
('the Company')
Results of Voting - Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of Finsbury Food Group Plc was held
today at 9.00 a.m. at the Parkgate Hotel, Westgate Street, Cardiff,
CF10 1DA.
The Company is pleased to confirm that all nine resolutions put
to shareholders were passed on a poll. Resolutions 1 to 7 were
passed as ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 8 and 9 were passed
as special resolutions.
The results of the poll (including proxy votes) were as
follows:
Resolution Votes for % Votes against % Votes withheld
Resolution 1 (Ordinary)
To receive the reports
of the Directors and the
Financial Statements for
the 52 weeks ended 26 June
2021 together with the
report of the auditor thereon. 77,987,01 98.97% 814,681 1.03% 2,176
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Resolution 2 (Ordinary)
To re-elect Peter Baker
as a Director. 65,567,093 99.70% 196,576 0.30% 13,040,201
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Resolution 3 (Ordinary)
To re-elect John Duffy
as a Director. 78,695,367 99.87% 104,979 0.13% 3,524
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Resolution 4 (Ordinary)
To declare a final dividend
for the 52 weeks ended
26 June 2021 of 2.4 pence
per ordinary share. 78,803,870 100% 0 0 0
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Resolution 5 (Ordinary)
To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP as auditor of the Company
to hold office until the
conclusion of the next
general meeting. 77,972,116 98.95% 823,872 1.05% 7,882
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Resolution 6 (Ordinary)
To authorise the Directors
to determine the fees payable
to the auditor. 78,487,561 99.60% 316,309 0.40% 0
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Resolution 7 (Ordinary)
The Directors be generally
authorised to allot shares
and to grant rights to
subscribe for or to convert
any security into shares. 78,208,691 99.88% 91,160 0.12% 504,019
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Resolution 8 (Special)
The Directors be empowered
to allot equity securities
for cash pursuant to the
general authority conferred
on them by resolution 7. 78,748,784 99.94% 48,891 0.06% 6,195
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Resolution 9 (Special)
The Company be authorised
to make market purchases
of its ordinary shares
of 1 pence each. 78,237,441 99.28% 566,429 0.72% 0
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As at 18 November, there were 130,383,361 ordinary shares in
issue. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. Votes
withheld are not votes in law and so have not been included in the
calculation of the proportion of votes for and against a
resolution.
For further information:
Finsbury Food Group
John Duffy (Chief
Executive)
Steve Boyd (Finance
Director) www.finsburyfoods.co.uk 029 20 357 500
Panmure Gordon (UK)
Limited
Oliver Cardigan (Corporate
Finance)
Atholl Tweedie
Erik Anderson (Corporate
Broking)
Edward Walsh 020 7886 2500
Alma PR
Sam Modlin
David Ison
Hilary Buchanan
Molly Gretton finsbury@almapr.co.uk 020 3405 0205
Notes to editors:
-- Finsbury Food Group Plc (AIM: FIF) is a leading UK
manufacturer of cake and bread bakery goods, supplying a broad
range of blue-chip customers within both the grocery retail and
'out of home eating' foodservice sectors including major multiples
and leading foodservice providers.
-- The Company is one of the largest speciality bakery groups in
the UK and, with its Overseas division, has sales in the financial
year ending 26 June 2021 exceeding GBP313m.
-- The Company's bakery product range is comprehensive and includes:
-- Large premium and celebration cakes.
-- Small snacking cake formats such as cake slices and bites.
-- Artisan, healthy lifestyle and organic breads through to
rolls, muffins (sweet and savoury) and morning pastries, all of
which are available both fresh and frozen dependent on customer
channel requirements.
-- Gluten Free bread, morning goods and cake ranges.
-- The Company is one of the largest ambient cake manufacturers
in the UK, a market valued at over GBP992 million (source: IRI 52
w/e 11(th) September 2021). The retail bread and morning goods
market has a value of GBP5.1 billion (source: Kantar Worldpanel 52
w/e 5(th) September 2021). The retail Free From cake market is
valued at GBP52 million (source: Kantar Worldpanel 52 w/e 8(th)
August 2021). The retail Free From bread & morning goods market
is valued at GBP146 million (source: Kantar Worldpanel 52 w/e 5(th)
September 2021).
-- The Company comprises a core UK Bakery division and an Overseas division:
-- The UK Bakery division has manufacturing sites in Cardiff,
East Kilbride, Hamilton, Salisbury, Sheffield, Manchester, and
Pontypool.
-- The Overseas division comprises the Company's 50% owned
company, Lightbody Stretz Ltd, which supplies and distributes the
Group's UK-manufactured products and third-party products,
primarily to Europe, and the Company's manufacturing facilities in
Rybarzowice and Zywiec in Poland.
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