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Young & Co.’s Brewery, P.L.C. (the “Company”) - Result of AGM
At the Company’s 133rd Annual General Meeting held today, all resolutions put to the meeting were passed on a poll. The polling results for each resolution are set out in the table below. The resolutions themselves are contained in the Notice of Meeting dated 18 May 2022, a copy of which is in the Company’s Annual Report 2022 which is available on the Company’s website (www.youngs.co.uk).
Resolution | For | % of total | Against | % of total | Total votes cast (excluding withheld) | Withheld |
1 Annual accounts and reports | 15,781,796 | 83.32% | 3,160,470 | 16.68% | 18,942,266 | 410,579 |
2 Declare final dividend | 19,344,747 | 99.98% | 2,998 | 0.02% | 19,347,745 | 5,100 |
3 Re-appointment of auditor | 19,231,253 | 99.43% | 110,965 | 0.57% | 19,342,218 | 10,627 |
4 Auditor’s remuneration | 19,238,172 | 99.44% | 108,362 | 0.56% | 19,346,534 | 6,311 |
5 Re-appointment of director: Patrick Dardis | 19,203,568 | 99.28% | 140,046 | 0.72% | 19,343,614 | 9,231 |
6 Re-appointment of director: Stephen Goodyear | 18,864,141 | 99.01% | 189,310 | 0.99% | 19,053,451 | 299,394 |
7 Re-appointment of director: Aisling Meany | 19,289,824 | 99.71% | 55,310 | 0.29% | 19,345,134 | 7,711 |
8 Political donations and expenditure. | 14,950,296 | 99.12% | 132,679 | 0.88% | 15,082,975 | 4,269,870 |
9 General authority to allot | 19,275,176 | 99.67% | 63,829 | 0.33% | 19,339,005 | 13,840 |
10 Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 18,745,220 | 98.24% | 336,259 | 1.76% | 19,081,479 | 269,686 |
11 Authority to undertake market purchases of own shares | 15,045,181 | 99.76% | 36,341 | 0.24% | 15,081,522 | 4,269,643 |
For information: (a) the total number of voting shares in issue at the time of the AGM was 34,413,847, (b) the "For" column includes those votes giving the Chair of the meeting discretion, and (c) a “vote withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes cast "for" or "against" a resolution.
Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C.Chris TaylorCompany SecretaryTel: 020 8875 7000
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