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FirstGroup Plc - Result of AGM

FirstGroup plc

Result of 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) - 26 JULY 2024

FirstGroup plc (the 'Company') announces that, at the AGM held earlier today, all resolutions were passed by the Company's shareholders on a poll. The results of the poll are shown in the table below and will also be available on the Company's website.

 


                          FOR                AGAINST         TOTAL       WITHHELD

                          Number of   % of   Number of  % of Number of   Number of
                          Votes       Vote   Votes      Vote Votes       Votes

   To receive the Annual
   Report and Financial
1  Statements for the 53  455,470,678 99.99  33,708     0.01 455,504,386 1,016,249
   weeks ended 30 March
   2024

   To approve the
2  Directors'             426,755,092 93.54  29,479,055 6.46 456,234,147 286,508
   Remuneration Policy

   To approve the
3  Directors' Annual      441,012,155 96.64  15,310,095 3.36 456,322,250 198,405
   Report on Remuneration

   To declare a final
   dividend of 4.0 pence
4  per ordinary share for 456,439,848 100.00 16,252     0.00 456,456,100 64,387
   the 53 weeks ended 30
   March 2024

5  To re-elect Sally      447,834,414 98.15  8,427,542  1.85 456,261,956 258,679
   Cabrini as a Director

6  To re-elect Myrtle     447,790,907 98.15  8,463,129  1.85 456,254,036 266,599
   Dawes as a Director

7  To re-elect Anthony    444,614,088 97.44  11,659,331 2.56 456,273,419 247,216
   Green as a Director

8  To re-elect Claire     447,745,027 98.14  8,486,413  1.86 456,231,440 289,195
   Hawkings as a Director

9  To re- elect Jane      443,096,308 97.12  13,139,015 2.88 456,235,323 285,312
   Lodge as a Director

10 To re- elect Peter     447,785,368 98.14  8,467,974  1.86 456,253,342 267,293
   Lynas as a Director

11 To re-elect Ryan       455,585,511 99.86  652,185    0.14 456,237,696 282,939
   Mangold as a Director

12 To re-elect David      429,052,809 94.04  27,181,467 5.96 456,234,276 286,359
   Martin as a Director

   To re-elect Graham
13 Sutherland as a        455,683,934 99.87  573,775    0.13 456,257,709 262,926
   Director

   To appoint
14 PricewaterhouseCoopers 456,188,153 99.97  124,390    0.03 456,312,543 208,092
   LLP as auditors

   To authorise the
15 Directors to determine 456,008,325 99.92  363,520    0.08 456,371,845 148,790
   the remuneration of
   the auditors

   To authorise the
16 Directors to allot     447,204,302 97.99  9,170,817  2.01 456,375,119 145,516
   shares

   To authorise the
17 Directors to disapply  447,468,250 98.07  8,803,378  1.93 456,271,628 247,480

   pre-emption rights

   To disapply
18 pre-emption rights for 439,898,198 96.42  16,344,053 3.58 456,242,251 276,857
   acquisitions or other
   capital investments

   To authorise the
   Directors to make
19 market                 436,918,496 95.88  18,761,703 4.12 455,680,199 840,436

   purchases of the
   Company's shares

   To authorise the
   Company to make
20 political donations    452,812,482 99.22  3,546,820  0.78 456,359,302 161,333
   and incur political
   expenditure

   To authorise the
   calling of general
21 meetings               446,977,127 97.94  9,420,046  2.06 456,397,173 123,462

   on 14 clear days'
   notice



 

Votes 'For' and 'Against' are expressed as a percentage of votes received. A 'Vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution. Votes were cast for a total of 456,456,100 ordinary shares of 5 pence per share, representing 73.94% of the total number of votes capable of being cast at the AGM. The Company's issued share capital as at close of business on 24 th July 2024 which was the voting record date for the meeting was 750,695,015 ordinary shares and the number of votes per share is one. On 24 th July 2024 the Company held 133,399,635 shares in Treasury, which do not carry any voting rights. Resolutions 1 to 16, and 20 were proposed as Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 17 to 19 and 21 as Special Resolutions.

 

Contacts at FirstGroup:

Marianna Bowes Head of Investor Relations

Stuart Butchers, Group Head of Communications

David Blizzard, Company Secretary

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7725 3354

 

Contacts at Brunswick PR:

Andrew Porter / Simone Selzer, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7404 5959

 

 

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI):   549300DEJZCPWA4HKM93. Classification as per DTR 6 Annex 1R: 3.1.