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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
21 July 2021
21 July 2021
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (the "Company")
Results of the 2021 Annual General Meeting
The Company held its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 21 July
2021. All the resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a
show of hands. Resolutions 1 to 13 were passed as ordinary
resolutions and resolutions 14 to 16 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 Total
Withheld
Number % Number %
--------------- ------- -------- -----
1. To receive
the audited
accounts of
the Company
for the year
ended 28 February
2021, together
with the Report
of the Directors
and the report
of the Auditor
thereon. 53,967,112 99.99 75 0.01 24,016 53,967,187
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
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
2021. 52,831,777 98.96 556,752 1.04 602,674 53,388,529
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
3. To approve
a special dividend
of 9.78p per
Ordinary share 53,977,716 99.99 3,170 0.01 10,317 53,980,886
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
4. To declare
a final dividend
of 7.58p per
Ordinary share 53,977,716 99.99 3,170 0.01 10,317 53,980,886
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
5. To re-appoint
Steven Hall
as a Director
of the Company. 53,963,049 99.98 9,151 0.02 19,003 53,972,200
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
6. To re-appoint
Sir Richard
Lambert as
a Director
of the Company. 53,931,321 99.92 45,103 0.08 14,779 53,976,424
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
7. To re-appoint
Nigel Newton
as a Director
of the Company. 53,906,012 99.88 65,412 0.12 19,779 53,971,424
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
8. To re-appoint
Leslie-Ann
Reed as a Director. 53,946,992 99.95 25,832 0.05 18,379 53,972,824
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
9. To re-appoint
Penny Scott-Bayfield
as a Director. 53,954,288 99.97 18,536 0.03 18,379 53,972,824
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
10. To appoint
Baroness Lola
Young of Hornsey
as a Director. 53,961,157 99.97 16,667 0.03 13,379 53,977,824
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
11. To re-appoint
KPMG LLP as
Auditor of
the Company. 53,961,744 99.97 17,028 0.03 12,431 53,978,772
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
12. To authorise
the Directors
to determine
the auditors'
remuneration. 53,962,025 99.98 11,894 0.02 17,284 53,973,919
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
13. To authorise
the Directors
to allot shares. 53,870,936 99.80 107,105 0.20 13,162 53,978,041
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
14. To authorise
the Directors
to disapply
pre-emption
rights. 53,954,576 99.96 23,465 0.04 13,162 53,978,041
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
15. To authorise
the Directors
to disapply
pre-emption
rights regarding
acquisition/investment. 53,708,576 99.51 266,370 0.49 16,257 53,974,946
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
16. To authorise
the Company
to purchase
its own shares. 52,379,300 99.96 18,979 0.04 1,592,924 52,398,279
--------------- ------- -------- ----- ---------- -----------
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 Monday 19 July 2021, 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.
Maya Abu-Deeb
Group General Counsel & Company Secretary
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Telephone: +44(0)20 7631 5600
Email: maya.abu-deeb@bloomsbury.com
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