Rio Tinto PLC Results of Rio Tinto plc AGM (6787V)

TIDMRIO

RNS Number : 6787V

Rio Tinto PLC

06 April 2023

Notice to ASX/LSE

Rio Tinto plc annual general meeting

6 April 2023

The annual general meeting of Rio Tinto plc was held on 6 April 2023.

Under Rio Tinto's dual listed companies structure established in 1995, decisions on significant matters affecting shareholders of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited in similar ways are taken through a joint electoral procedure. Resolutions 1 to 18 (inclusive) of the Rio Tinto plc annual general meeting fall into this category, and the results of the voting on these resolutions will be announced shortly after the Rio Tinto Limited annual general meeting which will be held in Australia on 4 May 2023.

The remaining resolutions 19 to 22 (inclusive) were put to Rio Tinto plc shareholders on a poll at the annual general meeting today. The results of that poll are set out below.

The addresses given by the Chair and the Chief Executive are available at www.riotinto.com/agm .

 
 Resolutions           For / discretion       % for         Against     Total votes     % of     Withheld* 
                            (number        / discretion     (number       validly      issued 
                           of votes)                       of votes)        cast        share 
                                                                                       capital 
                                                                                        voted 
 19. General 
  authority 
  to allot shares           896,719,373           98.63    12,443,034   909,162,407     72.68%   13,243,072 
                      -----------------  --------------  ------------  ------------  ---------  ----------- 
 20. Disapplication 
  of pre-emption 
  rights                    903,182,122           99.42     5,292,502   908,474,624     72.63%   13,930,703 
                      -----------------  --------------  ------------  ------------  ---------  ----------- 
 21. Authority 
  to purchase 
  Rio Tinto 
  plc shares                720,621,578           79.26   188,535,217   909,156,795     72.68%   13,240,002 
                      -----------------  --------------  ------------  ------------  ---------  ----------- 
 22. Notice 
  period for 
  general meetings 
  other than 
  annual general 
  meetings                  873,062,810           96.00    36,339,720   909,402,530     72.70%   13,004,092 
                      -----------------  --------------  ------------  ------------  ---------  ----------- 
 

* It should be noted that a vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes for and against each resolution.

For the purposes of section 341 of the UK Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the table as a percentage of Rio Tinto plc's total issued share capital (excluding shares held in Treasury) as at 8pm on 4 April 2023, being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the Company's register of members in order to attend and vote at the annual general meeting. The number of shares in issue was 1,255,855,118 (excluding Treasury shares 1,250,832,245).

The Company notes that Resolution 21 'Authority to purchase Rio Tinto plc shares' was passed with less than 80% of votes in favour. Shining Prospect (a subsidiary of the Aluminium Corporation of China "Chinalco") voted against Resolution 21. Chinalco has not sold any of its shares in Rio Tinto plc and now has a holding of over 14% given its non-participation in the Company's significant share buyback programmes. This places Chinalco close to the 14.99% holding threshold agreed with the Australian Government at the time of its original investment in Rio Tinto.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

LEI: 213800YOEO5OQ72G2R82

Classification: 3.1. Information disclosed under article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation.

Contacts

Please direct all enquiries to [e-mail]

 
Media Relations, United     Media Relations, Australia     Media Relations, 
 Kingdom                                                    Americas 
                             Matt Chambers 
 Matthew Klar                M [phone]              Simon Letendre 
 M [phone]                                         M [phone] 
                             Jesse Riseborough 
 David Outhwaite             M [phone]              Malika Cherry 
 M [phone]                                         M [phone] 
                             Alyesha Anderson 
                             M [phone] 
Investor Relations, United  Investor Relations, Australia 
 Kingdom 
                             Tom Gallop 
 Menno Sanderse              M [phone] 
 M [phone] 
                             Amar Jambaa 
 David Ovington              M [phone] 
 M [phone] 
 
 Clare Peever 
 M [phone] 
Rio Tinto plc               Rio Tinto Limited 
 
 6 St James's Square         Level 43, 120 Collins Street 
 London SW1Y 4AD             Melbourne 3000 
 United Kingdom              Australia 
 T [phone]          T [phone] 
 
 Registered in England       Registered in Australia 
 No. 719885                  ABN 96 004 458 404 
 

This announcement is authorised for release to the market by Steve Allen, Rio Tinto's Group Company Secretary.

riotinto.com

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact [e-mail] or visit www.rns.com.

RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy.

END

RAGKZGGDFVFGFZM

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

April 06, 2023 09:56 ET (13:56 GMT)