Result of AGM

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 

YOUNG & CO.’S BREWERY, P.L.C. (THE “COMPANY”)

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

At the Company’s 137th 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 20 May 2026, a copy of which is in the Company’s 2026 Annual Report which is available on the Company’s website (www.youngs.co.uk).

Resolution	For	% of total	Against	% of total	Total votes cast (excluding withheld)	% of issued share capital voted	Withheld
1 Annual accounts and reports	26,252,995	100.00%	673	0.00%	26,253,668	69.00%	40,690
2 Directors’ remuneration report	26,214,399	99.92%	20,660	0.08%	26,235,059	68.95%	59,299
3 Directors’ remuneration policy	25,675,576	98.70%	337,672	1.30%	26,013,248	68.37%	281,110
4 Final dividend	26,289,714	100.00%	643	0.00%	26,290,357	69.10%	4,001
5 Re-appointment of auditor	25,901,969	98.52%	389,897	1.48%	26,291,866	69.10%	2,492
6 Auditor’s remuneration	26,173,002	99.54%	119,949	0.46%	26,292,951	69.10%	1,407
7 Re-appointment of director: Steve Cooke	25,955,380	98.72%	335,794	1.28%	26,291,174	69.10%	3,184
8 Re-appointment of director: Simon Dodd	26,226,175	99.75%	66,752	0.25%	26,292,927	69.10%	1,431
9 Re-appointment of director: Mike Owen	26,208,988	99.68%	83,925	0.32%	26,292,913	69.10%	1,445
10 Re-appointment of director: Tracy Dodd	26,165,889	99.52%	127,131	0.48%	26,293,020	69.10%	1,338
11 Re-appointment of director: Torquil Sligo-Young	26,189,094	99.62%	99,548	0.38%	26,288,642	69.09%	5,716
12 Re-appointment of director: Aisling Meany	26,084,652	99.42%	151,788	0.58%	26,236,440	68.96%	57,918
13 Re-appointment of director: Ian Dyson	25,906,548	98.53%	386,287	1.47%	26,292,835	69.10%	1,523
14 Re-appointment of director: John Dunsmore	26,215,882	99.72%	72,732	0.28%	26,288,614	69.09%	5,444
15 Political donations and expenditure	24,903,244	97.38%	670,634	2.62%	25,573,878	67.21%	720,000
16 Directors’ authority to allot shares	26,064,370	99.22%	206,191	0.78%	26,270,561	69.05%	23,517
17 Disapplication of pre-emption rights (general authority)	25,138,075	95.72%	1,124,355	4.28%	26,262,430	69.02%	31,928
18 Disapplication of pre-emption rights (additional authority)	25,092,737	95.56%	1,166,533	4.44%	26,259,270	69.02%	35,008
19 Authority to purchase own shares	26,193,583	99.94%	16,650	0.06%	26,210,233	68.89%	84,125
20 Adoption of new articles of association	26,203,451	99.97%	8,628	0.03%	26,212,079	68.89%	82,279

For information:

(a) The total number of voting shares in issue at the time of the AGM was 38,048,005;

(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.

Séverine Béquin

Company Secretary

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