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Severn Trent PLC
17 July 2019
LEI: 213800RPBXRETY4A4C59
Severn Trent Plc
(the "Company")
Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 17 July 2019
at the Ricoh Arena, Phoenix Way, Coventry CV6 6GE
The Directors are pleased to announce that the shareholders of
Severn Trent Plc passed all the resolutions that were proposed at
this year's Annual General Meeting, as set out in the Notice of
Annual General Meeting dated 20 May 2019.
All of the Resolutions were passed at the Meeting on a poll. The
total number of votes received for each resolution is set out below
in Appendix A.
Resolutions 1 to 17 were passed as ordinary resolutions and
resolutions 18 to 21 were passed as special resolutions.
The Meeting was attended by 72 shareholders.
In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.1 and 9.6.2, a copy of the
resolutions passed at the Meeting, other than resolutions
concerning ordinary business, will be submitted to the UK Listing
Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the
National Storage Mechanism, located at
http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/.
In total, 74.91% of the issued share capital, excluding shares
held in treasury, was voted and the percentages shown below are
rounded to two decimal places.
www.severntrent.com
Appendix A
RESOLUTION VOTES FOR % OF VOTES VOTES AGAINST % OF VOTES VOTES CAST TOTAL VOTES VOTES
CAST CAST IN TOTAL CAST AS A % WITHHELD
OF ISSUED
SHARE
CAPITAL
Receive the
Report and
Accounts for
the year
ended
31 March
1 2019 178,122,197 99.98 32,997 0.02 178,155,194 74.90% 125,014
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Approve the
Directors'
Remuneration
2 Report 176,315,760 99.32 1,203,205 0.68 177,518,965 74.63% 762,069
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Approve
changes to
the
Severn Trent
Plc Long
Term
Incentive
3 Plan 2014 176,682,196 99.24 1,348,533 0.76 178,030,729 74.84% 251,525
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Approve the
extension of
the Severn
Trent
Sharesave
Scheme by an
additional
period of
4 ten years 177,608,656 99.68 568,594 0.32 178,177,250 74.91% 103,975
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Declare a
final
ordinary
dividend in
respect of
the year
ended 31
March
5 2019 178,141,487 99.95 86,975 0.05 178,228,462 74.93% 53,353
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Reappoint
Kevin
6 Beeston 177,258,007 99.50 888,197 0.50 178,146,204 74.89% 133,432
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Reappoint
James
7 Bowling 177,309,395 99.53 836,317 0.47 178,145,712 74.89% 137,056
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Reappoint
8 John Coghlan 177,207,815 99.47 940,189 0.53 178,148,004 74.89% 134,416
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Reappoint
9 Andrew Duff 175,430,673 98.47 2,725,688 1.53 178,156,361 74.90% 125,120
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Reappoint
Olivia
10 Garfield 177,678,524 99.73 486,117 0.27 178,164,641 74.90% 116,725
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Reappoint
Dominique
11 Reiniche 177,555,550 99.66 598,282 0.34 178,153,832 74.90% 128,322
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Reappoint
Philip
Remnant
12 CBE 176,774,800 99.23 1,373,581 0.77 178,148,381 74.89% 134,106
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Reappoint
Dame Angela
13 Strank 177,561,876 99.67 588,779 0.33 178,150,655 74.90% 130,517
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Reappoint
Deloitte LLP
as Auditor
of the
14 Company 177,046,184 99.36 1,146,470 0.64 178,192,654 74.91% 89,869
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Authorise
the Audit
Committee
to determine
the
remuneration
of the
15 Auditor 178,042,971 99.92 151,047 0.08 178,194,018 74.91% 87,861
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Authorise
the Company
and
all
companies
which are
subsidiaries
of the
Company
to make
political
donations
not
exceeding
GBP50,000
16 in total 164,625,111 99.29 1,179,096 0.71 165,804,207 69.70% 12,478,143
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Renew the
Company's
authority
to allot
17 shares 175,666,553 98.59 2,510,266 1.41 178,176,819 74.91% 105,499
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Disapply
pre-emption
rights
on up to
five per
cent
of the
issued share
18 capital 177,915,636 99.89 202,553 0.11 178,118,189 74.88% 164,298
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Disapply
pre-emption
rights
on up to an
additional
five per
cent of the
issued
share
capital in
connection
with an
acquisition
or
specified
capital
19 investment 176,056,725 98.84 2,065,699 1.16 178,122,424 74.88% 159,645
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Authorise
the Company
to
make market
purchases of
its Ordinary
20 Shares 177,326,544 99.54 820,982 0.46 178,147,526 74.89% 134,512
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Authorise
general
meetings
of the
Company,
other than
Annual
General
Meetings,
to be called
on not less
than 14
clear days'
21 notice 169,628,639 95.59 7,832,351 4.41 177,460,990 74.61% 821,206
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Notes
1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman
have been included in the "for" total.
2. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in
the calculation of the proportion of the votes "for" and "against"
a resolution.
3. Issued ordinary share capital (excluding shares held in
treasury) at 15 July 2019: 237,866,618 shares.
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