BTG PLC Result of AGM (0379L)

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BTG PLC

13 July 2017

BTG plc

13 July 2017

BTG plc: Results of 2017 Annual General Meeting

London, UK: BTG plc (LSE:BTG), the global specialist healthcare company, announces that all resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today were duly passed by the required majority by means of a poll vote.

The results of the poll votes on the resolutions are shown in the table below and will be posted on the Company's website www.btgplc.com:

 
                                                                                    % of 
                                                                                     Issued 
                                                                                     Share 
                          Votes         % of     Votes        % of    Total          Capital   Votes 
 Resolution                for*          vote     against      vote    Votes         Voted      Withheld 
-----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------                ---------  ---------- 
      Receive 
       and adopt 
       the report 
 1     and accounts       328,807,744   99.99%   13,380       0.01%   328,821,124   85.13%     1,049,020 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Approve 
       the directors' 
       remuneration 
 2     report             325,527,863   99.42%   1,883,099    0.58%   327,410,962   84.77%     2,459,182 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Re-elect 
       Susan Foden 
 3     as a director      329,838,050   99.99%   17,100       0.01%   329,855,150   85.40%     14,994 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Re-elect 
       Giles Kerr 
 4     as a director      328,184,336   99.49%   1,670,731    0.51%   329,855,067   85.40%     15,077 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Re-elect 
       Louise 
       Makin as 
 5     a director         328,602,283   99.70%   990,967      0.30%   329,593,250   85.33%     276,894 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Re-elect 
       Ian Much 
 6     as a director      327,272,601   99.22%   2,582,477    0.78%   329,855,078   85.40%     15,066 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Re-elect 
       James O'Shea 
 7     as a director      329,839,420   99.99%   15,647       0.01%   329,855,067   85.40%     15,077 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Re-elect 
       Rolf Soderstrom 
 8     as a director      329,837,480   99.99%   17,770       0.01%   329,855,250   85.40%     14,894 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Re-elect 
       Garry Watts 
 9     as a director      318,523,372   96.76%   10,652,684   3.24%   329,176,056   85.23%     694,087 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Re-elect 
       Richard 
       Wohanka 
 10    as a director      328,695,104   99.65%   1,160,010    0.35%   329,855,114   85.40%     15,030 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Elect Graham 
       Hetherington 
 11    as a director      328,047,128   99.45%   1,808,573    0.55%   329,855,701   85.40%     14,443 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Re-appoint 
       KPMG Audit 
       plc as 
 12    Auditors           322,244,795   98.12%   6,161,813    1.88%   328,406,608   85.03%     1,463,536 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Authorise 
       Directors 
       to fix 
       Auditor 
 13    remuneration       325,038,001   98.54%   4,824,817    1.46%   329,862,818   85.40%     7,326 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Authorise 
       the Company 
       to make 
       Political 
 14    Donations          321,542,025   99.50%   1,617,331    0.50%   323,159,356   83.67%     6,710,756 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Authority 
       to allot 
 15    shares             327,354,725   99.24%   2,507,134    0.76%   329,861,859   85.40%     8,285 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Disapplication 
       of pre-emption 
       rights 
       in respect 
       of up to 
       5% of the 
       Company's 
       issued 
 16    share capital      329,776,824   99.98%   70,255       0.02%   329,847,079   85.40%     23,065 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Disapplication 
       of pre-emption 
       rights 
       in respect 
       of an additional 
       5% of the 
       Company's 
       issued 
 17    share capital      317,093,402   96.13%   12,751,815   3.87%   329,845,217   85.40%     24,927 
---  ------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ------------  ---------  ---------- 
      Call a 
       general 
       meeting 
       on not 
       less than 
       14 days' 
 18    notice             322,478,737   97.77%   7,365,253    2.23%   329,843,990   85.40%     26,153 
 
 

*where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for" column

As at 10:30 a.m. on 11 July 2017 (being the time at which shareholders who wanted to attend and vote at the meeting were required to have their details entered in the register of members) there were 386,236,658 shares of 10p each in issue.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the Annual General Meeting have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

Contacts:

Andy Burrows, Vice President, Corporate and Investor Relations

[phone]

Stuart Hunt, Investor Relations Manager

[phone]

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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