FirstGroup plc

Result of 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) - 25 JULY 2025

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 52  407,825,924 99.99 23,339     0.01 407,849,263 1,088,724
   weeks ended 29 March
   2025

   To approve the
2  Directors' Annual      401,951,144 98.33 6,826,622  1.67 408,777,766 160,221
   Report on Remuneration

   To declare a final
   dividend of 4.8 pence
3  per ordinary share for 408,839,003 99.99 21,444     0.01 408,860,447 77,540
   the 52 weeks ended 29
   March 2025

4  To re-elect Sally      395,274,871 96.71 13,426,206 3.29 408,701,077 233,636
   Cabrini as a Director

5  To re-elect Myrtle     396,433,435 97.00 12,280,931 3.00 408,714,366 223,621
   Dawes as a Director

6  To re-elect Claire     395,272,819 96.71 13,451,787 3.29 408,724,606 210,107
   Hawkings as a Director

7  To re- elect Jane      393,807,772 96.35 14,911,637 3.65 408,719,409 215,304
   Lodge as a Director

8  To re- elect Peter     395,268,634 96.71 13,442,223 3.29 408,710,857 227,130
   Lynas as a Director

9  To re-elect Ryan       404,535,422 98.98 4,183,852  1.02 408,719,274 218,713
   Mangold as a Director

   To re-elect Graham
10 Sutherland as a        408,150,028 99.86 573,655    0.14 408,723,683 214,304
   Director

11 To elect Lena Wilson   406,092,405 99.36 2,635,198  0.64 408,727,603 210,384
   as a Director

   To appoint
12 PricewaterhouseCoopers 408,624,394 99.96 155,579    0.04 408,779,973 158,014
   LLP as auditors

   To authorise the
13 Directors to determine 408,638,695 99.97 141,932    0.03 408,780,627 154,086
   the remuneration of
   the auditors

   To authorise the
14 Directors to allot     400,513,252 97.97 8,297,473  2.03 408,810,725 127,262
   shares

   To authorise the
15 Directors to disapply  402,738,042 98.55 5,930,529  1.45 408,668,571 265,489

   pre-emption rights

   To disapply
16 pre-emption rights for 393,864,704 96.37 14,842,670 3.63 408,707,374 230,613
   acquisitions or other
   capital investments

   To authorise the
   Directors to make
17 market                 390,458,865 95.75 17,342,018 4.25 407,800,883 1,133,830

   purchases of the
   Company's shares

   To authorise the
   Company to make
18 political donations    402,319,169 98.42 6,441,775  1.58 408,760,944 173,116
   and incur political
   expenditure

   To approve the rules
19 of the Sharesave Plan  407,853,516 99.76 976,310    0.24 408,829,826 108,161
   2025

   To authorise the
   calling of general
20 meetings               398,667,989 97.52 10,158,416 2.48 408,826,405 111,582

   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 408,860,447 ordinary shares of 5 pence per share, representing 71.11% 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 25 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 25 th July 2025 the Company held 175,795,497 shares in Treasury, which do not carry any voting rights. Resolutions 1 to 14, and 18 to 19 were proposed as Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 15 to 17 and 20 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.