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RNS Number : 5051D

Britvic plc

31 January 2018

31 January 2018

Britvic plc ("the Company")

AGM Voting Results

At the 2018 Annual General Meeting of the Company held today at Linklaters LLP, One Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8HQ at 11.00am, all resolutions were passed on a poll. The polling results for each resolution are set out below:

 
 No.    Resolution                        For *        %      Against       %       Votes 
                                                                                   Withheld 
                                                                                      ** 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
 Ordinary Resolutions 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
        Receive the Annual 
         Report for 52 weeks 
         ended 1 October 
   1.    2017                          197,494,192   99.99       20,494    0.01      11,281 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Declare a final 
         dividend of 19.3p 
   2.    per share                     197,482,843   99.98       33,734    0.02       9,390 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Consider and approve 
         the directors' remuneration 
         policy for 52 weeks 
         ended 1 October 
  3.     2017                          172,687,645   87.51   24,644,840   12.49     193,481 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Consider and approve 
         the directors' remuneration 
         policy for 52 weeks 
         ended 1 October 
   4.    2017                          187,072,865   95.43    8,960,245    4.57   1,492,855 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Election of Suniti 
         Chauhan as a 
   5.    Director                      197,074,332   99.78      436,299    0.22      15,336 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Election of William 
         Eccleshare as a 
  6.     director                      194,423,047   98.44    3,088,303    1.56      14,617 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Re-election of Sue 
   7.    Clark as a director           195,771,117   99.12    1,743,583    0.88      11,267 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Re-election of John 
   8.    Daly as a director            196,651,231   99.56      861,658    0.44      13,078 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Re-election of Mathew 
         Dunn as a 
   9.    director                      196,912,218   99.70      602,389    0.30      11,360 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Re-election of Simon 
         Litherland as a 
 10.     director                      196,948,409   99.71      567,009    0.29      10,549 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Re-election of Ian 
 11.     McHoul as a director          196,878,659   99.68      627,117    0.32      20,191 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Re-election of Euan 
         Sutherland as a 
 12.     director                      197,085,512   99.79      420,264    0.21      20,191 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Re-appointment of 
         Ernst & Young LLP 
 13.     as auditors                   196,274,015   99.37    1,243,568    0.63       8,383 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Authority to Audit 
         Committee to fix 
         the remuneration 
 14.     of the auditors               197,477,024   99.98       43,312    0.02       5,631 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Authority to make 
         political donations 
         and incur political 
 15.     expenditure                   194,374,217   98.42    3,125,515    1.58      26,235 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Authority to directors 
 16.     to allot shares               169,227,139   85.68   28,283,329   14.32      15,499 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
 Special Resolutions 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
        Authority to directors 
         to issue shares 
 17.     for cash                      189,650,268   99.05    1,827,045    0.95   6,048,654 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Authority to issue 
         shares for cash 
         in relation to an 
         acquisition or other 
 18.     capital investment            170,488,385   89.04   20,995,336   10.96   6,042,245 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Authority to company 
         to purchase own 
 19.     shares                        196,309,378   99.45    1,091,411    0.55     125,177 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
        Authority to hold 
         general meetings 
         (other than AGMs) 
         on 14 clear days' 
 20.     notice                        169,444,957   85.79   28,068,318   14.21      12,692 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ---------- 
 

The Company's issued share capital at 31 January 2018 was 264,315,498. Proxy appointments appointing the Chairman of the meeting were received from shareholders of 197,509,749 shares representing 74.72% of the issued share capital.

 
 *    Includes those votes giving the Chairman discretion 
 **   A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not 
       counted towards the votes cast 'for' or 'against' 
       a resolution 
 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority ("UKLA") and will be available for inspection via the National Storage Mechanism website at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm and also via the Company's website at www.britvic.com

Jonathan Adelman

Acting General Counsel & Company Secretary

Britvic plc

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