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6 July 2023
Young & Co.’s Brewery, P.L.C. (the “Company”) - Result of AGM
At the Company’s 134th 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 24 May 2023, a copy of which is in the Company’s 2023 Annual Report 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 | 19,669,153 | 100.00% | - | 0.00% | 19,669,153 | 11,884 |
2 Declare final dividend | 19,684,037 | 100.00% | - | 0.00% | 19,684,037 | - |
3 Re-appointment of auditor | 19,575,589 | 99.48% | 101,801 | 0.52% | 19,677,390 | 6,647 |
4 Auditor’s remuneration | 19,583,852 | 99.49% | 99,781 | 0.51% | 19,683,633 | 404 |
5 Re-appointment of director: Simon Dodd | 19,568,823 | 99.42% | 113,674 | 0.58% | 19,682,497 | 1,540 |
6 Re-appointment of director: Mike Owen | 19,601,917 | 99.59% | 80,935 | 0.41% | 19,682,852 | 1,185 |
7 Re-appointment of director: Tracy Dodd | 19,584,813 | 99.58% | 82,810 | 0.42% | 19,667,623 | 16,414 |
8 Re-appointment of director: Nick Miller | 19,631,816 | 99.74% | 51,116 | 0.26% | 19,682,932 | 1,105 |
9 Re-appointment of director: Mark Loughborough | 19,607,043 | 99.61% | 75,810 | 0.39% | 19,682,853 | 1,148 |
10 Re-appointment of director: Sarah Sergeant | 19,658,196 | 99.88% | 23,536 | 0.12% | 19,681,732 | 2,105 |
11 Political donations and expenditure | 14,901,670 | 99.43% | 85,298 | 0.57% | 14,986,968 | 4,685,069 |
12 Directors fees | 19,555,289 | 99.77% | 44,132 | 0.23% | 19,599,421 | 84,616 |
13 Directors authority to allot | 19,563,207 | 99.72% | 55,733 | 0.28% | 19,618,940 | 64,417 |
14 Disapplication of pre-emption rights (general authority) | 19,323,818 | 99.68% | 61,452 | 0.32% | 19,385,270 | 298,087 |
15 Disapplication of pre-emption rights (additional authority) | 19,323,198 | 99.70% | 57,215 | 0.30% | 19,380,413 | 302,944 |
16 Authority to undertake market purchases of own shares | 15,008,688 | 99.91% | 12,898 | 0.09% | 15,021,586 | 4,662,419 |
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 Taylor
Company Secretary
Tel: 020 8875 7000
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