Marston's PLC Result of AGM (9993A)

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RNS Number : 9993A

Marston's PLC

27 January 2020

Result of AGM

27 January 2020

Marston's PLC (the "Company") is pleased to announce that at its Annual General Meeting, held on 24 January 2020, all the resolutions proposed in the Notice of Meeting were passed on a poll. Full details of the total number of votes received for each resolution are set out below and will also be made available on the Company's website: www.marstons.co.uk

A copy of the resolutions passed at the AGM that the Company considers to be non-routine business will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority's National Storage Mechanism and will be available to view at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

 
 Resolution                  Votes for     % of      Votes       % of       Total       Total votes     Votes withheld 
                                           votes     against     votes      votes          cast as 
                                           cast                  cast        cast          a % of 
                                                                                           issued 
                                                                                        share capital 
      Receive the Annual 
 1    Report and Accounts   103,086,170   99.99%        5,400    0.01%   103,091,570           55.03%        1,384,017 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Approve the 
      Directors' 
 2    Remuneration Policy    89,792,873   86.05%   14,551,016   13.95%   104,343,889           55.70%          131,691 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Approve the Annual 
      Report on 
 3    Remuneration          100,094,860   95.92%    4,253,359    4.08%   104,348,219           55.70%          127,364 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Declare a final 
 4     dividend             104,459,995   99.99%        5,600    0.01%   104,465,595           55.76%            9,994 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
 5    Elect Bridget Lea     104,358,685   99.95%       54,182    0.05%   104,412,867           55.73%           62,719 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Elect Octavia 
 6    Morley                104,346,510   99.94%       59,235    0.06%   104,405,745           55.73%           69,839 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Re-elect Andrew 
 7     Andrea               104,100,606   99.70%      316,214    0.30%   104,416,820           55.74%           58,766 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Re-elect Carolyn 
 8     Bradley              104,373,023   99.96%       45,539    0.04%   104,418,562           55.74%           57,024 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Re-elect Ralph 
 9     Findlay              100,279,910   96.98%    3,120,401    3.02%   103,400,311           55.19%        1,075,273 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Re-elect Matthew 
 10    Roberts              104,374,050   99.95%       47,861    0.05%   104,421,911           55.74%           53,675 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Re-elect William 
 11    Rucker                97,936,583   95.92%    4,166,144    4.08%   102,102,727           54.50%        2,372,857 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Appoint KPMG as 
 12    Auditors             104,229,164   99.85%      160,549    0.15%   104,389,713           55.72%           85,870 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Authorise Auditors' 
 13    remuneration         104,266,906   99.84%      167,468    0.16%   104,434,374           55.74%           41,211 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Authority to allot 
 14    shares                97,686,444   93.54%    6,741,624    6.46%   104,428,068           55.74%           47,516 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Disapplication 
       of pre-emption 
 15    rights                99,023,877   94.87%    5,359,397    5.13%   104,383,274           55.72%           92,308 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Authority to make 
       market purchases 
 16    of own shares        103,094,868   98.81%    1,237,701    1.19%   104,332,569           55.69%          143,015 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
      Short notice of 
 17    general meetings     100,062,450   95.79%    4,393,327    4.21%   104,455,777           55.76%           19,803 
     --------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  ---------------  --------------- 
 

Notes:

(i) Resolutions 1 to 14 were ordinary resolutions, requiring more than 50% of shareholder votes to be 'for' the resolutions.

(ii) Resolutions 15 to 17 were special resolutions, requiring not less than 75% of shareholder votes to be 'for' the resolutions.

(iii) Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the 'for' total.

(iv) A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'for' and 'against' a resolution.

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