Smith & Nephew Plc Result of AGM (8536B)

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RNS Number : 8536B

Smith & Nephew Plc

06 April 2017

6 April 2017

Smith & Nephew plc

Smith & Nephew announces the results of the voting by poll on the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting held at 2pm on 6 April 2017.

 
          Resolution             For/Discretion                      Against     Total votes   Percentage    Withheld 
                                     (Number         Percentage       (Number      validly     of relevant    (Number 
                                       of          For/Discretion       of           cast        shares      of votes) 
                                     votes)             (%)           votes)                    in issue 
                                                                                                   (%) 
Ordinary resolutions 
 
1. To receive and adopt 
 the audited accounts             586,180,837         99.99           37,534     586,218,371     66.99%     3,590,379 
 
2. To approve the Directors' 
 Remuneration Policy              578,383,031         98.30         10,003,885   588,386,916     67.24%     1,422,700 
 
3. To approve the Directors' 
 Remuneration Report              581,873,387         98.85         6,787,211    588,660,598     67.27%     1,149,020 
 
4. To declare a final 
 dividend                         589,547,729         99.99           33,462     589,581,191     67.38%      228,427 
 
5. To elect Graham 
 Baker                            582,628,820         98.84           6,821,757  589,450,577     67.36%      356,179 
 
6. To re-elect Vinita 
 Bali                             572,852,757         98.36         9,552,476    582,405,233     66.56%     7,401,522 
 
7. To re-elect Ian 
 Barlow                           582,950,675         98.90         6,490,084    589,440,759     67.36%      365,996 
 
8. To re-elect Olivier 
 Bohuon                           581,360,475         98.63         8,103,117    589,463,592     67.36%      343,164 
 
9. To re-elect The 
 Rt. Hon Baroness Virginia 
 Bottomley of Nettlestone 
 DL                               577,518,717         98.00         11,789,298   589,308,015     67.35%      495,998 
 
10.To re-elect Erik 
 Engstrom                         587,911,230         99.74         1,523,899    589,435,129     67.36%      371,626 
 
11. To re-elect Robin 
 Freestone                        584,937,298         99.26         4,354,614    589,291,912     67.34%      514,843 
 
12. To re-elect Michael 
 Friedman                         586,040,203         99.43         3,382,780    589,422,983     67.36%      383,772 
 
13. To re-elect Joseph 
 Papa                             575,007,776         97.55         14,428,481   589,436,257     67.36%      370,548 
 
14. To re-elect Roberto 
 Quarta                           560,911,073         95.24         28,059,117   588,970,190     67.31%      836,614 
 
15. To re-appoint KPMG 
 LLP as the Auditor               588,684,358         99.85          871,493     589,555,851     67.37%      252,816 
 
16. To authorise the 
 Directors to determine 
 the remuneration of 
 the Auditor                      589,372,184         99.97          174,796     589,546,980     67.37%      262,588 
 
17. To renew the Directors' 
 authority to allot 
 shares                           577,005,741         97.87         12,530,446   589,536,187     67.37%      271,940 
 
Special resolutions 
 
18. To renew the Directors' 
 authority for the 
 disapplication 
 of the pre-emption 
 rights                           552,659,786         95.87         23,798,582   576,458,368     65.88%     13,349,807 
 
19. To renew the Directors' 
 limited authority to 
 make market purchases 
 of the Company's own 
 shares                           583,914,861         99.06         5,544,056    589,458,917     67.36%      348,960 
 
20. To authorise general 
 meetings to be held 
 on 14 clear days' notice         534,299,941         91.08         52,322,789   586,622,730     67.04%     3,184,846 
 

The number of Ordinary Shares in issue on 6 April 2017 at 6pm (excluding shares held in Treasury) was 875,057,786. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes validly cast.

A copy of the Resolutions passed as Special Business at the Annual General Meeting is being submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism document viewing facility at: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

Susan Swabey

Company Secretary

Smith & Nephew plc

Tel: [phone]

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