Result of AGM

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Premier Foods plc
18 July 2024
 

 

                                                                                   

18 July 2024

 

Premier Foods plc

('Premier Foods' or the 'Company')

 

Annual General Meeting 2024

 

Results 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: www.premierfoods.co.uk

 

 

Resolution

For

%

Against

%

Total cast

% of ISC voted

Votes withheld*

1. To receive the 2023/24 annual report.

722,839,057

100.00

2,607

0.00

722,841,664

83.20%

824,825

2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report.

703,651,207

98.05

14,006,208

1.95

717,657,415

82.60%

6,009,074

3. To approve a final dividend.

723,648,589

100.00

784

0.00

723,649,373

83.29%

17,116

4. To elect Malcolm Waugh as a director.

723,471,556

99.99

106,649

0.01

723,578,205

83.29%

88,284

5. To re-elect Colin Day as a director.

712,820,579

98.51

10,787,211

1.49

723,607,790

83.29%

58,699

6. To re-elect Alex Whitehouse as a director.

723,485,745

99.98

122,091

0.02

723,607,836

83.29%

58,653

7. To re-elect Duncan Leggett as a director.

722,544,409

99.85

1,063,771

0.15

723,608,180

83.29%

58,309

8. To re-elect Roisin Donnelly as a director.

722,683,796

99.88

899,187

0.12

723,582,983

83.29%

83,506

9. To re-elect Tim Elliott as a director.

722,713,409

99.88

871,453

0.12

723,584,862

83.29%

81,627

10. To re-elect Tania Howarth as a director.

717,076,426

99.10

6,529,277

0.90

723,605,703

83.29%

60,786

11. To re-elect Helen Jones as a director.

720,653,650

99.60

2,924,210

0.40

723,577,860

83.29%

88,629

12. To re-elect Yuichiro Kogo as a director.

723,429,884

99.98

155,470

0.02

723,585,354

83.29%

81,135

13. To re-elect Lorna Tilbian as a director.

715,530,558

98.88

8,074,808

1.12

723,605,366

83.29%

61,123

14. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor.

723,464,555

99.99

68,349

0.01

723,532,904

83.28%

133,585

15. To approve the remuneration of the auditor.

723,510,663

100.00

32,290

0.00

723,542,953

83.28%

123,536

16. To approve the authority to make political donations.

704,273,562

97.33

19,339,468

2.67

723,613,030

83.29%

53,459

17. To approve the 2024 Sharesave Plan.

722,331,027

99.83

1,264,866

0.17

723,595,893

83.29%

70,596

18. To approve the authority to allot shares.

647,472,885

89.48

76,141,477

10.52

723,614,362

83.29%

52,127

19. To renew the authority to disapply pre-emption rights.

711,529,763

98.51

10,751,756

1.49

722,281,519

83.14%

1,384,970

20. To renew the authority to disapply pre-emption rights for an acquisition or a specified capital investment.

711,767,130

98.37

11,808,449

1.63

723,575,579

83.28%

90,910

21. To approve the notice period for general meetings.

715,362,720

98.86

8,262,868

1.14

723,625,588

83.29%

40,901

 

*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 16 July 2024 was 868,795,815 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 be submitted to the Financial Conduct Authority's National Storage Mechanism (NSM), and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism 

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For further information contact:

 

Simon Rose

General Counsel & Company Secretary

Tel: 01727 815850

 

 

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