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BAE SYSTEMS PLC
04 May 2016
 

BAE SYSTEMS plc

 

POLL RESULTS FOR AGM 2016

 

BAE Systems plc announces that all resolutions were passed by the requisite majorities on a poll at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 4 May 2016.

 

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS

VOTES FOR

% VOTES FOR1

VOTES AGAINST

TOTAL VOTES VALIDLY CAST

% OF ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL VOTED1,2,3

VOTES WITHHELD2

Resolution 1:

Report and Accounts

2,446,172,216

99.94

1,507,469

2,447,679,685

77.15%

541,861

Resolution 2:

Directors' Remuneration Report

2,321,944,825

94.89

125,150,986

2,447,095,811

77.13%

1,125,734

Resolution 3:

Payment of final dividend

2,447,700,584

100.00

60,780

2,447,761,364

77.15%

460,182

Resolution 4:

Re-election of Sir Roger Carr

2,439,804,339

99.74

6,386,840

2,446,191,179

77.10%

2,030,367

Resolution 5:

Re-election of Jerry DeMuro

2,438,770,059

99.64

8,803,650

2,447,573,709

77.15%

647,837

Resolution 6:

Re-election of Harriet Green

2,442,114,774

99.78

5,455,261

2,447,570,035

77.15%

651,511

Resolution 7:

Re-election of Christopher Grigg

2,443,128,180

99.82

4,444,138

2,447,572,318

77.15%

649,228

Resolution 8:

Re-election of Ian King

2,438,747,212

99.64

8,907,578

2,447,654,790

77.15%

566,756

Resolution 9:

Re-election of Peter Lynas

2,432,016,210

99.36

15,599,902

2,447,616,112

77.15%

605,434

Resolution 10:

Re-election of Paula Rosput Reynolds

2,434,396,422

99.46

13,164,717

2,447,561,139

77.15%

660,407

Resolution 11:

Re-election of Nicholas Rose

2,441,783,027

99.76

5,805,975

2,447,589,002

77.15%

632,544

Resolution 12:

Re-election of Ian Tyler

2,187,697,374

93.32

156,682,579

2,344,379,953

73.89%

103,841,592

Resolution 13:

Election of Elizabeth Corley

2,427,588,379

99.67

8,093,039

2,435,681,418

76.77%

12,540,127

Resolution 14:

Reappointment of Auditors

2,374,784,607

99.44

13,481,467

2,388,266,074

75.28%

59,955,471

Resolution 15:

Auditors' remuneration

2,418,450,119

99.59

9,996,298

2,428,446,417

76.54%

19,775,129

Resolution 16:

Political donations

2,406,918,555

98.90

26,660,628

2,433,579,183

76.70%

14,642,363

Resolution 17:

Authority to allot new shares

2,085,957,815

85.44

355,603,142

2,441,560,957

76.96%

6,660,589

 

 

SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS

VOTES FOR

% VOTES FOR1

VOTES AGAINST

TOTAL VOTES VALIDLY CAST

% OF ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL VOTED1,2,3

VOTES WITHHELD2

Resolution 18:

Disapplication of

pre-emption rights

1,958,473,520

83.06

399,463,731

2,357,937,251

74.32%

90,284,294

Resolution 19:

Authority to purchase own shares

2,425,904,005

99.11

21,720,771

2,447,624,776

77.15%

596,769

Resolution 20:

Notice of general meetings

2,266,376,600

93.12

167,442,590

2,433,819,190

76.71%

14,402,356

 

Notes: 

1.       The percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.

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.       The number of ordinary shares in issue on the share register at 6.00pm on 2 May 2016 was 3,467,440,044, of which the Total Voting Rights figure was 3,172,669,738.

 

Copies of resolutions 16 - 20, being resolutions other than resolutions concerning ordinary business passed by the Company at the above AGM, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

 

4 May 2016

 

 


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