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 Withheld
| Total | ||
| 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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