Declaration of votes at Annual General Meeting of John Wood Group PLC
At the Annual General Meeting of John Wood Group PLC held on 29 June 2020, all resolutions put to shareholders were passed on a poll with the required majorities.
The full text of each resolution is contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting
Issued share capital at meeting date: 684,939,369 Number of votes per share: 1 vote per share
The final vote received in respect of each resolution was as follows:
Votes For (Including Discretionary) | % | Votes Against | % | Total Votes (excluding Votes Withheld) | % of Issued Share Capital Voted | Votes Withheld* | ||
1 | Report & accounts | 537,832,588 | 99.98% | 117,849 | 0.02% | 537,950,437 | 78.85% | 2,138,908 |
2 | Remuneration report | 470,073,334 | 87.07% | 69,834,493 | 12.93% | 539,907,827 | 78.85% | 181,518 |
3 | Remuneration Policy | 485,497,628 | 90.14% | 53,097,415 | 9.86% | 538,595,043 | 78.85% | 1,494,302 |
4 | Re-elect Roy A Franklin | 537,080,194 | 99.48% | 2,803,445 | 0.52% | 539,883,639 | 78.85% | 205,706 |
5 | Re-elect Thomas Botts | 538,630,043 | 99.76% | 1,283,733 | 0.24% | 539,913,776 | 78.85% | 175,570 |
6 | Re-elect Jacqui Ferguson | 507,114,881 | 93.92% | 32,803,602 | 6.08% | 539,918,483 | 78.85% | 170,863 |
7 | Re-elect Mary Shafer-Malicki | 538,499,768 | 99.74% | 1,380,742 | 0.26% | 539,880,510 | 78.85% | 208,836 |
8 | Re-elect Robin Watson | 539,607,292 | 99.94% | 337,423 | 0.06% | 539,944,715 | 78.85% | 144,631 |
9 | Re-elect David Kemp | 538,052,469 | 99.89% | 601,807 | 0.11% | 538,654,276 | 78.85% | 1,435,070 |
10 | Elect Adrian Marsh | 538,528,965 | 99.75% | 1,349,771 | 0.25% | 539,878,736 | 78.85% | 210,610 |
11 | Elect Birgitte Brinch Madsen | 539,686,371 | 99.96% | 197,441 | 0.04% | 539,883,812 | 78.85% | 205,534 |
12 | Elect Nigel Mills | 539,666,128 | 99.96% | 209,640 | 0.04% | 539,875,768 | 78.85% | 213,578 |
13 | Re-appointment of KPMG LLC as auditors | 539,857,786 | 99.99% | 69,445 | 0.01% | 539,927,231 | 78.85% | 162,115 |
14 | Authorisation of auditors' remuneration | 539,891,123 | 99.99% | 64,663 | 0.01% | 539,955,786 | 78.85% | 133,560 |
15 | Authority to allot shares | 456,852,168 | 84.61% | 83,124,429 | 15.39% | 539,976,597 | 78.85% | 112,749 |
16 | Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 533,077,225 | 99.27% | 3,922,292 | 0.73% | 536,999,517 | 78.85% | 3,089,829 |
17 | Disapply pre-emption rights for acquisitions and other capital investment | 509,650,319 | 94.91% | 27,350,870 | 5.09% | 537,001,189 | 78.85% | 3,088,156 |
18 | Authority to purchase own shares | 536,336,075 | 99.35% | 3,523,317 | 0.65% | 539,859,392 | 78.85% | 229,953 |
19 | Adopt new Articles of Association of the Company | 539,732,812 | 99.97% | 152,612 | 0.03% | 539,885,424 | 78.85% | 203,922 |
20 | Notice of general meetings | 485,662,242 | 89.94% | 54,300,367 | 10.06% | 539,962,609 | 78.85% | 129,737 |
* A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.
Resolutions 16 to 20 were considered and passed as Special Resolutions.
In accordance with LR 9.6.2, those resolutions passed at today's AGM which are required to be made available for inspection will shortly be available to view at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.