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IMPERIAL BRANDS PLC
RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The 2020 Annual General Meeting of Imperial Brands PLC was held at the Bristol Marriott Hotel,
2 Lower Castle Street, Old Market, Bristol, BS1 3AD on Wednesday 5 February 2020 at 2.30 pm.
All resolutions proposed at the Meeting were decided on a poll and all resolutions were passed.
The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions put before the Meeting and the number of votes withheld were as follows:
Resolution
|
Total Votes For
|
% For |
Total Votes Against
|
Total Votes Cast
|
Votes Withheld
| |
1
| Annual Report and Accounts
| 750,907,833 | 100.00 | 26,126 | 750,933,959 | 565,519 |
2
| Directors' Remuneration Report
| 656,269,587 | 87.37 | 94,881,744 | 751,151,331 | 348,146 |
3
| To declare a final dividend
| 750,133,706 | 99.83 | 1,275,964 | 751,409,670 | 89,808 |
4
| Re-elect S M Clark | 744,381,984 | 99.09 | 6,863,111 | 751,245,095 | 254,383 |
5 |
| Resolution withdrawn | ||||
6
| Re-elect T M Esperdy
| 749,057,440 | 99.71 | 2,204,044 | 751,261,484 | 237,994 |
7 | Re-elect S A C Langelier
| 750,777,268 | 99.94 | 481,469 | 751,258,737 | 240,741 |
8 |
| Resolution withdrawn | ||||
9 | Re-elect S P Stanbrook
| 750,708,226 | 99.93 | 550,037 | 751,258,263 | 241,215 |
10 | Elect J A Stanton
| 748,657,615 | 99.65 | 2,606,099 | 751,263,714 | 235,764 |
11
| Re-elect O R Tant | 715,832,310 | 95.29 | 35,379,736 | 751,212,046 | 287,432 |
12 | Re-elect K Witts | 737,283,840 | 98.14 | 13,978,442 | 751,262,282 | 237,196 |
13
| Appointment of Auditors
| 749,506,854 | 99.76 | 1,766,438 | 751,273,292 | 226,186 |
14
| Remuneration of Auditors
| 751,092,592 | 99.97 | 220,256 | 751,312,848 | 186,630 |
15
| Political donations/ expenditure
| 741,202,201 | 99.13 | 6,506,896 | 747,709,097 | 3,790,381 |
16
| Authority to allot securities | 750,341,458 | 99.89 | 845,123 | 751,186,581 | 312,897 |
17
| Disapplication of pre-emption rights
| 744,964,749 | 99.17 | 6,253,214 | 751,217,963 | 281,515 |
18
| Purchase of own shares
| 745,726,825 | 99.31 | 5,154,270 | 750,881,095 | 618,381 |
19
| Notice period for general meetings
| 711,092,978 | 95.01 | 37,336,462 | 748,429,440 | 3,070,038 |
Notes
a) The 'for' vote includes those giving the Chairman discretion and the percentage is rounded to two decimal places.
b) A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes for or against a resolution.
c) Resolutions 17 to 19 are special resolutions.
d) The total number of ordinary shares of 10 pence each, in issue, excluding shares held in treasury as at 6.00pm on 4 February 2020 were 946,408,101.
A copy of a document setting out the resolutions passed dealing with special business at the meeting has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM in due course.
Trevor Williams
Deputy Company Secretary
Copies of our announcements are available on our website: www.imperialbrandsplc.com/Investors/Stock-Exchange-announcements