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Sage Group PLC
04 February 2021
 

RESULTS OF AGM

 

The Sage Group plc. ("Sage")

4 February 2021



Sage announces that all resolutions proposed to shareholders at its Annual General Meeting held on 4 February 2021 (the "AGM") were carried by the requisite majority on a poll.

 

The following table shows the votes cast for and against each resolution and the number of votes withheld:

 


Resolutions

Votes

For

%

Votes

Against

%

Total votes

% of total voting rights voted

Votes withheld

1.

Receive the Annual Report and Accounts

892,318,298

99.96%

375,923

0.04%

892,694,221

81.43%

3,477,172

2.

Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

803,292,111

89.77%

91,511,968

10.23%

894,804,079

81.63%

1,367,314

3.

Declare a final dividend

895,695,353

99.97%

226,475

0.03%

895,921,828

81.73%

249,565

4.

Elect Ms S Anand

895,771,552

99.99%

52,502

0.01%

895,824,054

81.72%

347,339

5.

Elect Ms I Wasti

895,779,348

99.99%

45,795

0.01%

895,825,143

81.72%

346,200

6.

Re-elect Sir D Brydon

892,360,024

99.85%

1,363,251

0.15%

893,723,275

81.53%

2,448,118

7.

Re-elect Dr J Bates

823,166,761

91.88%

72,717,119

8.12%

895,883,880

81.73%

287,513

8.

Re-elect Mr J Bewes

878,813,962

98.09%

17,071,418

1.91%

895,885,380

81.73%

286,013

9.

Re-elect Ms A Court

822,543,836

91.81%

73,342,044

8.19%

895,885,880

81.73%

285,513

10.

Re-elect Mr D Hall

822,983,159

91.86%

72,900,110

8.14%

895,883,269

81.73%

288,124

11.

Re-elect Mr S Hare

895,178,860

99.92%

716,050

0.08%

895,894,910

81.73%

276,483

12.

893,860,821

99.77%

2,029,197

0.23%

895,890,018

81.73%

281,375

13.

893,581,111

99.99%

101,052

0.01%

893,682,163

81.52%

2,489,230

14.

Authority to determine the Auditors' remuneration

895,804,582

99.99%

51,402

0.01%

895,855,984

81.72%

315,409

15.

Political Donations

891,563,365

99.52%

4,275,834

0.48%

895,839,199

81.72%

332,194

16.

Discretionary Share Plan Amendments

894,577,810

99.86%

1,227,623

0.14%

895,805,433

81.72%

365,960

17.

Authority to allot new shares

850,754,477

94.97%

45,086,098

5.03%

895,840,575

81.72%

330,818

18.

General authority to disapply pre-emption rights*

893,331,922

99.96%

352,393

0.04%

893,684,315

81.53%

2,487,078

19.

Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights*

881,816,715

98.67%

11,866,137

1.33%

893,682,852

81.53%

2,488,541

20.

Authority to purchase own shares on market*

887,410,293

99.06%

8,444,536

0.94%

895,854,829

81.72%

316,564

21.

General meetings to be held on not less than 14 clear days' notice*

857,216,174

95.71%

38,442,538

4.29%

895,658,712

81.71%

512,680

22.

Adoption of new Articles of Association*

894,902,101

99.92%

696,961

0.08%

895,599,062

81.70%

572,331

 

NOTES:

 

1.   * Indicates a Special Resolution requiring 75% of votes cast to be carried.         

2.   All resolutions were passed.

 

3.   Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes cast.

 

4.   Votes "For" include discretionary votes given to the Chairman.

 

5.   A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" and "Against" a resolution.

 

6.   To view the full wording of the resolutions, please refer to the Notice of 2021 Annual General Meeting on Sage's website.

 

7.   At 6.30 pm on 2 February 2021, the total voting rights of Sage were 1,096,206,744. This is based on the issued share capital of 1,120,789,295 ordinary shares reduced by the number of treasury shares of 24,582,551.

 

In accordance with the UK Listing Authority's Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed as special resolutions (resolutions 18 to 22 inclusive) will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at:

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

 

A copy of the AGM results as shown above will also be made available on Sage's website.

 

 

END

 

 

 

Name of contact:

Mohor Roy

Telephone number of contact:

+44(0) 203 810 7200

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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