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Severn Trent PLC
19 July 2017
 

LEI: 213800RPBXRETY4A4C59

Severn Trent Plc

(the "Company")

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 19 July 2017

at the Ricoh Arena, Phoenix Way, Coventry CV6 6GE

 

 

The Directors are pleased to announce that the shareholders of Severn Trent Plc passed all the resolutions that were proposed at this year's Annual General Meeting, as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 22 May 2017.

 

All of the Resolutions were passed at the Meeting on a poll.  The total number of votes received for each resolution is set out below.

 

Resolutions 1 to 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 20 were passed as special resolutions.

 

The Meeting was attended by 77 shareholders.

 

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.1 and 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed at the Meeting, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism, located at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/ and on the Company's website at https://www.severntrent.com/shareholder-resources/shareholder-meetings/the-agm-2017/  

 

In total, 62.57% of the issued share capital, excluding shares held in treasury, was voted and the percentages shown below are rounded to two decimal places.

 

 

 

 

RESOLUTION

VOTES FOR

% OF VOTES CAST

VOTES AGAINST

% OF VOTES CAST

VOTES CAST IN TOTAL

TOTAL VOTES CAST AS A % OF ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL

VOTES WITHHELD

1

Receive the Reports and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2017

147,622,884

99.98

29,752

0.02

147,652,636

62.54%

66,634

2

Approve Directors' Remuneration Report

142,422,030

97.30

3,948,356

2.70

146,370,386

62.00%

1,351,934

3

Declare a final ordinary dividend

 

147,502,253

99.99

8,145

0.01

147,510,398

62.48%

210,207

4

Reappoint Kevin Beeston

 

146,847,595

99.47

778,253

0.53

147,625,848

62.53%

94,581

5

Reappoint James Bowling

 

146,748,939

99.48

764,379

0.52

147,513,318

62.48%

207,139

6

Reappoint John Coghlan

 

146,695,663

99.44

823,551

0.56

147,519,214

62.48%

200,615

7

Reappoint Andrew Duff

 

146,721,761

99.39

903,378

0.61

147,625,139

62.53%

96,280

8

Reappoint Emma FitzGerald

 

146,774,645

99.48

761,066

0.52

147,535,711

62.49%

196,094

9

Reappoint Olivia Garfield

 

146,836,361

99.53

688,320

0.47

147,524,681

62.49%

196,944

10

Reappoint Dominique Reiniche

 

146,787,309

99.50

735,974

0.50

147,523,283

62.49%

198,302

11

Reappoint Philip Remnant

 

145,211,774

98.44

2,298,675

1.56

147,510,449

62.48%

203,546

12

Reappoint Dr. Angela Strank

146,830,917

99.46

796,574

0.54

147,627,491

62.53%

93,660

13

Reappoint Deloitte LLP as Auditor

 

144,740,965

98.04

2,900,623

1.96

147,641,588

62.54%

79,690

14

Authorise the Audit Committee of the Board to determine the remuneration of the Auditor

146,311,674

99.10

1,333,678

0.90

147,645,352

62.54%

75,342

15

Authorise political donations

 

144,894,662

98.85

1,692,631

1.15

146,587,293

62.09%

1,134,341

16

Authorise allotment of shares

 

144,434,256

97.99

2,969,844

2.01

147,404,100

62.43%

315,244

17

Disapply pre-emption rights on

up to five per cent of the issued share capital

 

147,165,390

99.86

210,162

0.14

147,375,552

62.42%

338,761

18

Disapply pre-emption rights on up to an additional five per cent of the issued share capital in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment

144,567,842

98.17

2,700,472

1.83

147,268,314

62.38%

446,243

19

Authorise purchase of own shares

 

146,503,548

99.25

1,106,916

0.75

147,610,464

62.52%

103,889

20

Reduce notice period for General Meetings

 

136,219,424

92.75

10,640,965

7.25

146,860,389

62.20%

854,649

 

 

 

Notes

 

1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" total.

 

2. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes "for" and "against" a resolution.

 

3.  Issued ordinary share capital at 17 July 2017: 236,092,755 shares.

 

 


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