LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
20 July 2021
Young & Co.’s Brewery, P.L.C. (the “Company”) - Result of AGM
At the Company’s 132nd Annual General Meeting held today, all resolutions put to the meeting were passed on a poll. The polling results for each resolution are set out in the table below. The resolutions themselves are contained in the Notice of Meeting dated 19 May 2021, a copy of which is in the Company’s Annual Report 2021 which is available on the Company’s website (www.youngs.co.uk) and on request from the Company at its registered office: Riverside House, 26 Osiers Road, Wandsworth, London SW18 1NH (telephone 020 8875 7000).
For information: (a) the total number of voting shares in issue at the time of the AGM was 34,404,889, (b) the "For" column includes those votes giving the Chair of the meeting discretion, and (c) a “vote withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes cast "for" or "against" a resolution.
Resolution |
For |
% of total |
Against |
% of total |
Withheld |
1 Annual accounts and reports |
13,848,018 |
99.97 |
4,564 |
0.03 |
14,238 |
2 Re-appointment of auditor |
13,836,507 |
99.84 |
22,531 |
0.16 |
7,782 |
3 Auditor’s remuneration |
13,847,283 |
99.87 |
18,200 |
0.13 |
1,337 |
4 Re-appointment of director: Roger Lambert |
10,101,874 |
86.61 |
1,562,324 |
13.39 |
2,202,622 |
5 Re-appointment of director: Ian McHoul |
11,213,115 |
81.25 |
2,587,952 |
18.75 |
65,753 |
6 Re-appointment of director: Torquil Sligo-Young |
10,012,585 |
72.22 |
3,851,872 |
27.78 |
2,363 |
7 Political donations and expenditure. |
13,766,757 |
99.42 |
80,671 |
0.58 |
19,392 |
8 Increased limit on the amount payable in respect of directors’ fees |
13,787,091 |
99.49 |
70,918 |
0.51 |
8,811 |
9 General authority to allot |
13,816,995 |
99.73 |
37,072 |
0.27 |
12,753 |
10 Disapplication of pre-emption rights |
13,480,914 |
97.39 |
361,740 |
2.61 |
24,166 |
11 Authority to undertake market purchases of own shares |
13,806,513 |
99.78 |
30,121 |
0.22 |
30,186 |
Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C.
Chris Taylor
Joint Company Secretary
Tel: 020 8875 7000