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Results of the 2024 Annual General Meeting

16 July 2024

The Company held its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 16 July 2024. All resolutions tabled at the Meeting were passed on a poll. Resolutions 1 to 8 and 10 to 12 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to 15 were passed as special resolutions.

The results of the poll for each resolution are shown in the table below:

 

Resolutions

For and at discretion

Against

Votes Withheld

 

Total

Number

%

Number

%

1. To receive the audited accounts of the Company for the year ended 29 February 2024, together with the Report of the Directors and the report of the Auditor thereon.

58,360,431

99.99%

26

0.01%

44,227

58,404,684

2. To approve the Annual Statement by the Chair of the Remuneration Committee and the Annual Report on Directors' Remuneration for the year ended 29 February 2024.

55,898,761

95.72%

2,497,536

4.28%

7,356

58,403,653

3. To declare a final dividend of 10.99p per Ordinary share.

58,403,979

99.99%

63

0.01%

642

58,404,684

4. To re-elect John Bason as a Director of the Company.

57,664,021

98.75%

729,305

1.25%

11,358

58,404,684

5. To re-elect Nigel Newton as a Director of the Company.

57,515,555

98.49%

880,080

1.51%

9,049

58,404,684

6. To re-elect Leslie-Ann Reed as a Director of the Company.

56,381,584

96.55%

2,011,742

3.45%

11,358

58,404,684

7. To re-elect Penny Scott-Bayfield as a Director of the Company.

58,375,531

99.97%

17,795

0.03%

11,358

58,404,684

8. To re-elect Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey as a Director of the Company.

57,581,327

98.61%

811,999

1.39%

11,358

58,404,684

9. WITHDRAWN

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-

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-

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10. To re-appoint Crowe U.K. LLP as Auditor of the Company.

58,394,394

99.99%

6,273

0.01%

4,017

58,404,684

11. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration.

58,398,927

99.99%

3,842

0.01%

1,915

58,404,684

12. To authorise the Directors to allot shares.

58,371,003

99.95%

27,939

0.05%

5,742

58,404,684

13. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights.

57,490,865

98.45%

905,592

1.55%

8,227

58,404,684

14. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights regarding acquisition/investment.

51,887,964

88.85%

6,512,063

11.15%

4,657

58,404,684

15. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares.

57,775,824

99.98%

11,680

0.02%

617,180

58,404,684

 

NOTES:

  1. The 'For' vote includes those giving discretion to the Chair of the Meeting.

  2. A 'Vote Withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution.

  3. As at Friday 12 July 2024, there were 81,608,672 ordinary shares of 1.25 pence in issue.

  4. Resolution 9 was not tabled at the Meeting as the candidate withdrew.

  5. The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website at www.bloomsbury-ir.co.uk.

  6. In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed at the meeting other than those considered as 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. 

 

For further information, please contact:

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc


Maya Abu-Deeb, Group General Counsel & Company Secretary

[email protected]

 

Hudson Sandler

+44 (0) 20 7796 4133

Dan de Belder / Hattie Dreyfus / Emily Brooker

[email protected]

 

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