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RNS Number : 4231G  Bloomsbury Publishing PLC  18 July 2023

Results of the 2023 Annual General Meeting

18 July 2023

The Company held its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 18 July 2022. All the
resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a show of hands.
Resolutions 1 to 13 and 17 and 18, were passed as ordinary resolutions and
resolutions 14 to 16 and 19 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 Withheld  Total

                                                                                  Number       %            Number     %
 1. To receive the audited accounts of the Company for the year ended 28          57,757,256   100          0          0.00  10,956          57,757,256
 February 2023, together with the Report of the Directors and the report of the
 Auditor thereon.
 2. To approve the Annual Statement by the Chair of the Remuneration Committee    57,055,315   99.31        398,514    0.69  314,383         57,453,829
 and the Annual Report on Directors' Remuneration for the year ended 28
 February 2023.
 3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy.                                55,661,670   97.07        1,682,662  2.93  423,880         57,344,332
 4. To declare a final dividend of 10.34p per Ordinary share.                     57,767,655   100          0          0     557             57,767,655
 5. To re-elect John Bason as a Director of the Company.                          56,966,567   98.63        792,202    1.37  9,443           57,758,769
 6. To re-elect Sir Richard Lambert as a Director of the Company.                 56,951,743   98.60        807,026    1.40  9,443           57,758,769
 7. To re-elect Nigel Newton as a Director of the Company.                        56,918,452   98.54        841,902    1.46  7,858           57,760,354
 8. To re-elect Leslie-Ann Reed as a Director.                                    56,952,918   98.61        805,305    1.39  9,989           57,758,223
 9. To re-elect Penny Scott-Bayfield as a Director.                               57,752,658   99.99        7,696      0.01  7,858           57,760,354
 10. To re-elect Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey as a Director.                    57,270,521   99.15        489,833    0.85  7,858           57,760,354
 11. To re-appoint Crowe U.K. LLP as Auditor of the Company.                      57,748,412   99.99        7,636      0.01  12,164          57,756,048
 12. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration.          57,757,486   99.99        7,237      0.01  3,489           57,764,723
 13. To authorise the Directors to allot shares.                                  57,717,322   99.93        39,198     0.07  11,692          57,756,520
 14. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights.                   57,696,438   99.90        56,074     0.10  15,700          57,752,512
 15. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights regarding          50,550,831   90.06        5,581,446  9.94  1,635,935       56,132,277
 acquisition/investment.
 16. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares.                         56,813,379   99.98        12,132     0.02  942,701         56,825,511
 17. To approve the 2023 Executive Share Plan                                     57,707,410   99.92        49,008     0.08  11,794          57,756,418
 18. To approve the 2023 Sharesave Plan                                           57,739,004   99.97        18,516     0.03  10,692          57,757,520
 19. To amend the Articles of Association                                         57,742,608   99.97        19,866     0.03  5,738           57,762,474

 

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 Friday 14 July 2023, 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
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism)  and on the
Company's website at www.bloomsbury-ir.co.uk
(https://www.bloomsbury-ir.co.uk/index) .

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
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

 

 

For further information, please contact:

 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
 Maya Abu-Deeb, Group General Counsel & Company Secretary      maya.abu-deeb@bloomsbury.com
                                                               +44 (0) 20 7796 4133

 Hudson Sandler
 Dan de Belder / Amelia Craddock / Emily Brooker               bloomsbury@hudsonsandler.com

 

 

 

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