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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
18 July 2023
Results of the 2023 Annual General Meeting
18 July 2023
The Company held its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 18 July
2022. All the resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a
show of hands. Resolutions 1 to 13 and 17 and 18, were passed as
ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 to 16 and 19 were passed as
special resolutions.
Details of shareholders' proxy votes lodged in advance of the
Annual General Meeting 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 28 February 2023,
together
with the Report of the Directors and the report
of the Auditor thereon. 57,757,256 100 0 0.00 10,956 57,757,256
2. To approve the Annual Statement by the Chair
of the Remuneration Committee and the Annual
Report on Directors' Remuneration for the year
ended 28 February 2023. 57,055,315 99.31 398,514 0.69 314,383 57,453,829
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration
Policy. 55,661,670 97.07 1,682,662 2.93 423,880 57,344,332
4. To declare a final dividend of 10.34p per
Ordinary share. 57,767,655 100 0 0 557 57,767,655
5. To re-elect John Bason as a Director of the
Company. 56,966,567 98.63 792,202 1.37 9,443 57,758,769
6. To re-elect Sir Richard Lambert as a Director
of the Company. 56,951,743 98.60 807,026 1.40 9,443 57,758,769
7. To re-elect Nigel Newton as a Director of the
Company. 56,918,452 98.54 841,902 1.46 7,858 57,760,354
8. To re-elect Leslie-Ann Reed as a Director. 56,952,918 98.61 805,305 1.39 9,989 57,758,223
9. To re-elect Penny Scott-Bayfield as a
Director. 57,752,658 99.99 7,696 0.01 7,858 57,760,354
10. To re-elect Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey
as a Director. 57,270,521 99.15 489,833 0.85 7,858 57,760,354
11. To re-appoint Crowe U.K. LLP as Auditor of
the Company. 57,748,412 99.99 7,636 0.01 12,164 57,756,048
12. To authorise the Directors to determine the
auditors' remuneration. 57,757,486 99.99 7,237 0.01 3,489 57,764,723
13. To authorise the Directors to allot shares. 57,717,322 99.93 39,198 0.07 11,692 57,756,520
14. To authorise the Directors to disapply
pre-emption rights. 57,696,438 99.90 56,074 0.10 15,700 57,752,512
15. To authorise the Directors to disapply
pre-emption rights regarding
acquisition/investment. 50,550,831 90.06 5,581,446 9.94 1,635,935 56,132,277
16. To authorise the Company to purchase its own
shares. 56,813,379 99.98 12,132 0.02 942,701 56,825,511
17. To approve the 2023 Executive Share Plan 57,707,410 99.92 49,008 0.08 11,794 57,756,418
18. To approve the 2023 Sharesave Plan 57,739,004 99.97 18,516 0.03 10,692 57,757,520
19. To amend the Articles of Association 57,742,608 99.97 19,866 0.03 5,738 57,762,474
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 14 July 2023, there were 81,608,672 ordinary shares of 1.25 pence in issue.
4. 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 .
5. 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 maya.abu-deeb@bloomsbury.com
Hudson Sandler +44 (0) 20 7796 4133
Dan de Belder / Amelia Craddock / Emily Brooker bloomsbury@hudsonsandler.com
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