21 July 2014
The Annual General Meeting of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc was held at 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP on Tuesday 22 July 2014.
All 18 resolutions put to the members were passed on a show of hands. All resolutions were passed as ordinary resolutions except for resolutions 13, 14 and 15 which were passed as special resolutions.
Copies of all resolutions passed at the meeting other than as ordinary business are being submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.
Percentages of proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting:
Resolution | In Favour | Discretion | Against | |
1 | Receive the report and account | 99.9% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
2 | Approve the Remuneration Annual Report/ Statement | 99.9% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
3 | Approve the Remuneration Policy | 99.4% | <0.1% | 0.6% |
4 | Approve the final dividend | 99.9% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
5 | Elect Sir Anthony Salz | 99.5% | <0.1% | 0.5% |
6 | Elect Jill Jones | 99.9% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
7 | Elect Stephen Page | 99.9% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
8 | Re-elect Ian Cormack | 99.5% | <0.1% | 0.5% |
9 | Re-elect Richard Charkin | 99.5% | <0.1% | 0.5% |
10 | Re-elect Nigel Newton | 99.3% | <0.1% | 0.7% |
11 | Reappoint KPMG as external auditor | 99.9% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
12 | Authority to allot ordinary shares | 99.9% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
13 | Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 99.3% | <0.1% | 0.7% |
14 | Authority to purchase ordinary shares | 99.9% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
15 | Approval to call a general meeting at reduced notice | 97.3% | <0.1% | 2.7% |
16 | Approve the 2014 Performance Share Plan | 99.4% | <0.1% | 0.6% |
17 | Approve the 2014 Company Share Option Plan | 99.9% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
18 | Approve the 2014 Sharesave Plan | 99.9% | <0.1% | 0.1% |
The numbers of proxy votes lodged for each resolution:
Resolution | In Favour | Discretion | Against | Withheld* |
1 | 52,859,508 | 7,549 | 2,059 | 193 |
2 | 52,837,417 | 7,608 | 13,662 | 10,622 |
3 | 52,540,118 | 7,549 | 296,076 | 25,566 |
4 | 52,861,431 | 7,549 | 65 | 264 |
5 | 52,584,531 | 10,110 | 272,463 | 2,205 |
6 | 52,850,636 | 10,110 | 8,563 | 0 |
7 | 52,850,136 | 10,110 | 7,063 | 2,000 |
8 | 52,584,641 | 10,110 | 272,258 | 2,300 |
9 | 52,588,136 | 10,110 | 269,063 | 2,000 |
10 | 52,471,974 | 10,416 | 384,919 | 2,000 |
11 | 52,853,131 | 7,549 | 8,436 | 193 |
12 | 52,839,622 | 8,049 | 21,181 | 457 |
13 | 52,517,036 | 8,049 | 343,172 | 1,052 |
14 | 52,843,487 | 8,049 | 17,128 | 645 |
15 | 51,455,283 | 8,049 | 1,405,713 | 264 |
16 | 52,549,621 | 8,049 | 301,144 | 10,495 |
17 | 52,837,844 | 8,049 | 12,921 | 10,495 |
18 | 52,792,568 | 8,049 | 64,197 | 4,495 |
* A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes in favour, discretionary or against a resolution.
Michael Daykin
Group Company Secretary
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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