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Imperial Brands PLC

06 February 2020

IMPERIAL BRANDS PLC

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The 2020 Annual General Meeting of Imperial Brands PLC was held at the Bristol Marriott Hotel,

2 Lower Castle Street, Old Market, Bristol, BS1 3AD on Wednesday 5 February 2020 at 2.30 pm.

All resolutions proposed at the Meeting were decided on a poll and all resolutions were passed.

The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions put before the Meeting and the number of votes withheld were as follows:

 
 
   Resolution               Total Votes      %       Total Votes     Total Votes      Votes 
                                For         For        Against          Cast         Withheld 
      Annual Report 
 1     and Accounts         750,907,833   100.00          26,126     750,933,959      565,519 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
      Directors' 
       Remuneration 
 2     Report               656,269,587    87.37      94,881,744     751,151,331      348,146 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
      To declare 
 3     a final dividend     750,133,706    99.83       1,275,964     751,409,670       89,808 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
      Re-elect 
 4     S M Clark            744,381,984    99.09       6,863,111     751,245,095      254,383 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
 5                                               Resolution withdrawn 
     ------------------  -------------------------------------------------------------------- 
      Re-elect 
 6     T M Esperdy          749,057,440    99.71       2,204,044     751,261,484      237,994 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
      Re-elect 
 7     S A C Langelier      750,777,268    99.94         481,469     751,258,737      240,741 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
 8                                               Resolution withdrawn 
     ------------------  -------------------------------------------------------------------- 
      Re-elect 
 9     S P Stanbrook        750,708,226    99.93         550,037     751,258,263      241,215 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
      Elect J A 
 10    Stanton              748,657,615    99.65       2,606,099     751,263,714      235,764 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
      Re-elect 
 11    O R Tant             715,832,310    95.29      35,379,736     751,212,046      287,432 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
      Re-elect 
 12    K Witts              737,283,840    98.14      13,978,442     751,262,282      237,196 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
      Appointment 
 13    of Auditors          749,506,854    99.76       1,766,438     751,273,292      226,186 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
      Remuneration 
 14    of Auditors          751,092,592    99.97         220,256     751,312,848      186,630 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
      Political 
       donations/ 
 15    expenditure          741,202,201    99.13       6,506,896     747,709,097    3,790,381 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
      Authority 
       to allot 
 16    securities           750,341,458    99.89         845,123     751,186,581      312,897 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
      Disapplication 
       of pre-emption 
 17    rights               744,964,749    99.17       6,253,214     751,217,963      281,515 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
      Purchase 
 18    of own shares        745,726,825    99.31       5,154,270     750,881,095      618,381 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
      Notice period 
       for general 
 19    meetings             711,092,978    95.01      37,336,462     748,429,440    3,070,038 
     ------------------  --------------  -------  --------------  --------------  ----------- 
 

Notes

a) The 'for' vote includes those giving the Chairman discretion and the percentage is rounded to two decimal places.

b) 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.

   c)   Resolutions 17 to 19 are special resolutions. 

d) The total number of ordinary shares of 10 pence each, in issue, excluding shares held in treasury as at 6.00pm on 4 February 2020 were 946,408,101.

A copy of a document setting out the resolutions passed dealing with special business at the meeting has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM in due course.

Trevor Williams

Deputy Company Secretary

Copies of our announcements are available on our website: www.imperialbrandsplc.com/Investors/Stock-Exchange-announcements

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