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BTG PLC

15 July 2015

BTG plc

15 July 2015

BTG plc: Results of 2015 Annual General Meeting

London, UK: BTG plc (LSE:BTG), the specialty pharmaceuticals company announces that all resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today were duly passed by the required majority by means of a poll vote.

The results of the poll votes on the resolutions are shown in the table below and will be posted on the Company's website www.btgplc.com:

Resolution		Votes for*	% of vote	Votes against	% of vote	Total Votes	% of Issued Share Capital Voted	Votes Withheld
1.	Receive and adopt the report and accounts	319,268,113	99.95	171,956	0.05	319,440,069	83.45	722,917
2.	Approve the directors' remuneration report	317,812,565	99.47	1,706,341	0.53	319,518,906	83.47	644,080
3.	Elect Susan Foden as a director	319,274,538	99.92	267,568	0.08	319,542,106	83.47	620,880
4.	Re-elect Garry Watts as a director	317,054,394	99.28	2,303,207	0.72	319,357,601	83.43	805,385
5.	Re-elect Louise Makin as a director	319,127,783	99.88	395,718	0.12	319,523,501	83.47	639,485
6.	Re-elect Rolf Soderstrom as a director	319,158,887	99.89	359,080	0.11	319,517,967	83.47	645,019
7.	Re-elect Giles Kerr as a director	319,027,214	99.83	533,604	0.17	319,560,818	83.48	602,168
8.	Re-elect Ian Much as a director	319,197,051	99.89	360,424	0.11	319,557,475	83.48	605,511
9.	Re-elect James O'Shea as a director	319,320,857	99.93	236,150	0.07	319,557,007	83.48	605,979
10.	Re-elect Richard Wohanka as a director	319,195,599	99.89	366,706	0.11	319,562,305	83.48	600,681
11.	Re-appoint KPMG Audit plc as Auditors	297,070,353	98.32	5,070,476	1.68	302,140,829	78.93	18,022,157
12.	Authorise Directors to fix Auditor remuneration	316,650,539	99.09	2,912,205	0.91	319,562,744	83.48	600,242
13.	Authorise the Company to make Political Donations	318,369,718	99.63	1,182,243	0.37	319,551,961	83.48	611,025
14.	Authority to allot shares	315,433,772	98.72	4,082,251	1.28	319,516,023	83.47	646,963
15.	Disapplication of pre-emption rights	289,806,925	98.65	3,966,567	1.35	293,773,492	76.74	26,389,494
16.	Call a general meeting on not less than 14 days' notice	312,452,034	97.78	7,081,085	2.22	319,533,119	83.47	629,867

*where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for" column

As at 10:30 a.m. on 13 July 2015 (being the time at which shareholders who wanted to attend and vote at the meeting were required to have their details entered in the register of members) there were 382,804,758 shares of 10p each in issue.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the Annual General Meeting have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

For Further information contact:

BTG

Andy Burrows, Vice President, Corporate and Investor Relations

+44 (0)20 7575 1741; mobile: +44 (0)7990 530605

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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