Company Announcements

Result of AGM

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Land Securities Group PLC
07 July 2022
 

7 July 2022

 

Land Securities Group PLC (the "Company")

 

Voting results of Annual General Meeting

 

The Company announces the voting results of its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today as a hybrid meeting at 80 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL. All resolutions, as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 7 June 2022, were passed with the requisite majority by means of a poll.

 

Resolutions 1 to 17 were passed as Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 18 to 20 were passed as Special Resolutions.

 

 

RESOLUTION

VOTES
FOR*

%

FOR

VOTES
AGAINST

TOTAL VOTES FOR / AGAINST

VOTES
WITHHELD**

1.

To receive the 2022 Annual Report

554,580,636

100.00

10,041

554,590,677

2,007,504

2.

To approve the Annual Report on Remuneration

500,096,016

89.87

56,349,255

556,445,271

152,910

3.

To declare a final dividend of 13p per ordinary share

556,495,217

100.00

12,151

556,507,368

90,813

4.

To re-elect Mark Allan as a Director

554,746,390

99.98

132,679

554,879,069

1,714,555

5.

To re-elect Vanessa Simms as a Director

555,756,414

99.87

711,242

556,467,656

125,968

6.

To re-elect Colette O'Shea as a Director

555,844,268

99.89

623,373

556,467,641

125,983

7.

To re-elect Edward Bonham Carter as a Director

548,000,396

98.48

8,468,913

556,469,309

124,315

 8.

To re-elect Nicholas Cadbury as a Director

549,697,458

98.78

6,772,873

556,470,331

123,293

9.

To re-elect Madeleine Cosgrave as a Director

554,633,406

99.67

1,836,264

556,469,670

123,954

10.

To re-elect Christophe Evain as a Director

541,917,682

97.38

14,551,842

556,469,524

123,939

11.

To re-elect Cressida Hogg as a Director

544,243,860

97.80

12,231,382

556,475,242

118,381

12.

To re-elect Manjiry Tamhane as a Director

556,346,504

99.98

121,856

556,468,360

125,264

13.

To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditor

553,624,508

99.48

2,867,172

556,491,680

106,501

14.

To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditor

555,206,658

99.77

1,291,538

556,498,196

99,985

15.

To authorise the Company to make political donations

555,596,138

99.82

987,089

556,583,227

14,954

16.

To authorise the Directors to allot securities

518,513,141

93.17

37,991,087

556,504,228

93,952

17.

To approve the Company's Sharesave Plan 2022

556,058,161

99.92

423,395

556,481,556

116,625

18.

To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights

542,900,494

98.49

8,303,850

551,204,344

5,393,837

19.

To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights for the purposes of acquisitions or capital investments

532,751,315

96.65

18,453,029

551,204,344

5,393,837

20.

To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares

554,785,793

99.70

1,663,833

556,449,626

148,555

 

The Company held the hybrid Annual General Meeting at the Company's registered office with the requisite amount of shareholders in attendance as required to form a quorum under the Company's articles of association. All valid proxy votes and voting instructions (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form) were included in the poll taken at the meeting.

 

* Includes discretionary votes

**A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is therefore not included in the calculation of total votes For/Against

 

·      Total voting rights at 7 July 2022:     741,498,619 Ordinary shares of 102/3p each

·      Number of votes per share:             One

·      Total number of votes cast:             556,583,227 Ordinary shares (i.e 75.06% turnout)

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism at    https://www.fca.org.uk/markets/primary-markets/regulatory-disclosures/national-storage-mechanism

 

 

A copy of the voting results shown above is also available on the Company's website at https://landsec.com/investors/shareholders-equity-investors/annual-general-meeting 

 

 

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For further information, please contact:

Land Securities Group PLC                           

Leigh McCaveny

Interim Company Secretary

Tel: +44 (0) 207 024 5193

 

7 July 2022

 

 

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