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2008 Annual General Meeting – Voting Results

The 2008 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Standard Life plc took place at 11am on Monday 19 May at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

Shareholders were asked to vote on a number of resolutions. You can read the number of votes cast below:

Results For Against Withheld

Resolution 1 -

To receive and consider the 2007Annual Report and Accounts

 

624,040,085

 

2,300,958

 

703,686

Resolution 2 -

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

 

603,619,154

 

20,950,924

 

2,459,770

Resolution 3 -

To declare a final dividend for 2007

 

626,491,112

 

314,570

 

245,628

Resolution 4

To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors

 

615,443,069

 

3,294,312

 

8,292,231

Resolution 5

To authorise the Directors to set the auditors' fees

 

622,770,505

 

3,306,404

 

968,124

Resolutions 6A and 6B

Individual re-election of Directors:

A. Lord Blackwell
B. Mr Keith Skeoch

 

 

619,706,106
620,621,893

 

 

5,509,397
4,595,551

 

 

1,805,273
1,825,257

Resolution 7

Election of Colin Buchan as a Director

 

619,877,908

 

4,049,321

 

2,010,603

Resolution 8

To authorise the Directors to issue further shares

 

616,453,064

 

9,143,793

 

1,427,539

Resolution 9 (Special Resolution)

To disapply share pre-emption rights

 

617,373,408

 

6,272,739

 

3,387,638

Resolution 10 (Special Resolution)

To give the Company authority to buy back up to 10% of its issued ordinary shares

 

622,205,287

 

3,552,739

 

1,211,623

Resolution 11

To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure:

 

599,172,984

 

24,783,557

 

2,998,683

Resolution 12

To adopt new articles of association

 

619,551,088

 

4,458,403

 

3,035,742

The total number of shares in issue at the date of the AGM was 2,177,426,803 ordinary shares of 10 pence each. Votes withheld are not a vote in law, and were not counted in the calculation of the votes for and each against each resolution.

Couldn’t make the meeting?  Watch the highlights with our AGM webcast
For more information about each of the resolutions just visit the resolutions explained
Read the AGM press release

 




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