17 May 2012 15:38
The Restaurant Group
Results of AGM
At the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 17 May 2012, all of the resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed.
The proxy votes received on each resolution were as follows:
Resolution | Votes For | % Votes For | Votes Against | Votes Withheld |
1. To adopt the Accounts for the year ended 1 January 2012 | 140,030,107 | 100% | 268,188 | 391,644 |
2. To approve the Director's remuneration report for the year ended 1 January 2012 | 128,533,796 | 91% | 10,260,410 | 1,895,733 |
3. To approve a final dividend of 6.5p per share for the year ended 1 January 2012 | 140,297,499 | 100% | 1,440 | 391,000 |
4. To re-elect Alan Jackson as a Director of the Company | 136,505,268 | 97% | 2,226,863 | 1,957,808 |
5. To re-elect Andrew Page as a Director of the Company | 137,369,164 | 98% | 2,923,178 | 397,597 |
6. To re-elect Stephen Critoph as a Director of the Company | 138,327,408 | 98% | 1,959,890 | 402,641 |
7. To re-elect Trish Corzine as a Director of the Company | 137,842,758 | 98% | 2,449,584 | 397,597 |
8. To re-elect Tony Hughes as a Director of the Company | 127,649,217 | 91% | 3,539,266 | 9,501,456 |
9. To re-elect Simon Cloke as a Director of the Company | 137,301,690 | 98% | 2,983,299 | 404,950 |
10. To re-appoint the Auditors and to authorise the Directors to determine their remuneration | 137,557,046 | 98% | 2,737,826 | 395,067 |
11. To authorise the allotment of shares up to a maximum nominal amount of £18,773,553 | 140,203,915 | 100% | 52,971 | 433,053 |
12. To waive pre-emption rights in certain circumstances | 140,103,188 | 100% | 143,961 | 442,790 |
13. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 139,735,087 | 99% | 306,262 | 648,590 |
Notes:
1) The total number of shares in issue at 17 May 2012 is 200,251,232.
2) Where shareholders have appointed the Chairman of the meeting as their proxy with discretion as to voting, those votes have been cast in favour of the resolutions and are included in the total of those votes for.
3) Certified copies of the resolutions have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/UK/nsm.
4) Votes For % has been rounded to the nearest whole percentage
For further information please contact:
Robert Morgan, Company Secretary, The Restaurant Group plc, 020 3117 5001