FIRSTGROUP PLC - Results of 2022 Annual General Meeting

FIRSTGROUP PLC - Results of 2022 Annual General Meeting

PR Newswire

London, July 27

FirstGroup plc

Result of 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM) - 27 JULY 2022

FirstGroup plc (the 'Company') announces that, at the AGM held earlier today, all resolutions were passed by the Company's shareholders on a poll. The results of the poll are shown in the table below and will also be available on the Company's website.

		FOR		AGAINST		TOTAL	WITHHELD
		Number of Votes	% of Vote	Number of Votes	% of Vote	Number of Votes	Number of Votes
1	To receive the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the 52 weeks ended 26 March 2022	568,347,329	99.99	47,870	0.01	568,395,199	1,097,252
2	To approve the Directors' Annual Report on Remuneration	478,167,186	84.16	90,005,515	15.84	568,172,701	1,319,750
3	To declare a final dividend of 1.1 pence per ordinary share for the 52 weeks ended 26 March 2022	569,181,440	99.97	188,945	0.03	569,370,385	122,066
4	To re-elect Sally Cabrini as a Director	554,023,238	97.38	14,884,512	2.62	568,907,750	584,701
5	To elect Myrtle Dawes as a Director	568,511,956	99.94	364,865	0.06	568,876,821	615,630
6	To elect Claire Hawkings as a Director	568,552,210	99.93	377,892	0.07	568,930,102	562,349
7	To re-elect Anthony Green as a Director	568,511,668	99.94	359,337	0.06	568,871,005	621,446
8	To re- elect Jane Lodge as a Director	566,542,600	99.59	2,345,668	0.41	568,888,268	604,183
9	To re- elect Peter Lynas as a Director	563,187,636	99.00	5,711,734	1.00	568,899,370	593,081
10	To re-elect Ryan Mangold as a Director	568,186,777	99.88	706,583	0.12	568,893,360	599,091
11	To re-elect David Martin as a Director	561,139,812	98.63	7,806,036	1.37	568,945,848	546,603
12	To elect Graham Sutherland as a Director	568,524,047	99.93	375,424	0.07	568,899,471	592,980
13	To appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors	568,611,046	99.91	526,982	0.09	569,138,028	354,423
14	To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors	568,737,443	99.94	361,599	0.06	569,099,042	393,409
15	To authorise the Directors to allot shares	564,448,947	99.17	4,718,399	0.83	569,167,346	325,105
16	To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights	568,470,062	99.91	523,189	0.09	568,993,251	499,200
17	To disapply pre-emption rights for acquisitions or other capital investments	566,994,918	99.64	2,021,174	0.36	569,016,092	476,359
18	To authorise the Directors to make market purchases of the Company's shares	567,332,702	99.88	705,854	0.12	568,038,556	1,453,895
19	To authorise the Company to make political donations and incur political expenditure	566,402,103	99.68	1,823,384	0.32	568,225,487	1,266,964
20	To authorise the calling of general meetings on 14 clear days' notice	561,385,491	98.61	7,886,695	1.39	569,272,186	220,265

Votes 'For' and 'Against' are expressed as a percentage of votes received. A 'Vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution. Votes were cast for a total of 569,492,451 ordinary shares of 5 pence per share, representing 75.92% of the total number of votes capable of being cast at the AGM. The Company's issued share capital as at today's date is 750,319,702 ordinary shares and the number of votes per share is one. The Company held 157,229 shares in Treasury, which do not carry any voting rights. Resolutions 1 to 15, and 19 were proposed as Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 16 to 18 and 20 as Special Resolutions.

Contacts at FirstGroup:

Faisal Tabbah, Head of Investor Relations

Stuart Butchers, Group Head of Communications

David Blizzard, Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

Contacts at Brunswick PR:

Andrew Porter / Simone Selzer, Tel: [phone]

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300DEJZCPWA4HKM93. Classification as per DTR 6 Annex 1R: 3.1.