RESULT OF VOTING AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF
RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC
HELD ON 28 MAY 2021
The resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting of Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (the "Company") were passed by the requisite majority by poll. The results are set out below:
STATEMENT OF POLL
VOTES | VOTES | % of | VOTES | ||||
RESOLUTION | VOTES FOR | % | % | ISC | |||
AGAINST | CAST | WITHHELD | |||||
Voted | |||||||
1. To receive and | 531718890 | 99.87 | 692354 | 0.13 | 532411244 | 74.62 | 2274888 |
adopt the 2020 | |||||||
Annual Report and | |||||||
Financial | |||||||
Statements | |||||||
2. To approve the | 434137976 | 82.37 | 92915499 | 17.63 | 527053475 | 73.87 | 7630753 |
Directors' | |||||||
Remuneration | |||||||
Report | |||||||
3. To declare a final | 531112514 | 99.39 | 3272073 | 0.61 | 534384587 | 74.90 | 297559 |
dividend | |||||||
4. To re-elect | 530221785 | 99.29 | 3772606 | 0.71 | 533994391 | 74.85 | 684087 |
Andrew Bonfield as | |||||||
a Director | |||||||
5. To re-elect Jeff | 530337922 | 99.25 | 4009880 | 0.75 | 534347802 | 74.89 | 332030 |
Carr as a Director | |||||||
6. To re-elect | 517530267 | 96.92 | 16442108 | 3.08 | 533972375 | 74.84 | 706763 |
Nicandro Durante | |||||||
as a Director | |||||||
7. To re-elect Mary | 514147977 | 98.42 | 8231787 | 1.58 | 522379764 | 73.22 | 12300411 |
Harris as a Director | |||||||
8. To re-elect | 532719371 | 99.78 | 1188228 | 0.22 | 533907599 | 74.83 | 772338 |
Mehmood Khan as | |||||||
a Director | |||||||
9. To re-elect Pam | 526526592 | 98.60 | 7475697 | 1.40 | 534002289 | 74.85 | 677663 |
Kirby as a Director | |||||||
10. To re-elect Sara | 490647439 | 91.89 | 43284798 | 8.11 | 533932237 | 74.84 | 747937 |
Mathew as a | |||||||
Director | |||||||
11. To re-elect | 518613380 | 97.06 | 15712841 | 2.94 | 534326221 | 74.89 | 353085 |
Laxman | |||||||
Narasimhan as a | |||||||
Director | |||||||
12. To re-elect | 524156949 | 99.32 | 3601892 | 0.68 | 527758841 | 73.97 | 6921011 |
Chris Sinclair as a | |||||||
Director | |||||||
13. To re-elect | 530549811 | 99.37 | 3386469 | 0.63 | 533936280 | 74.84 | 742587 |
Elane Stock as a | |||||||
Director | |||||||
14. To elect Olivier | 532228573 | 99.67 | 1747888 | 0.33 | 533976461 | 74.84 | 702066 |
Bohuon as a | |||||||
Director | |||||||
15. To elect | 529867375 | 99.23 | 4106782 | 0.77 | 533974157 | 74.84 | 705033 |
Margherita Della | |||||||
Valle as a Director |
16. To reappoint | 530862313 | 99.35 | 3487701 | 0.65 | 534350014 | 74.90 | 336563 |
KPMG LLP as | |||||||
External Auditor | |||||||
17. To authorise the | 533530000 | 99.91 | 476772 | 0.09 | 534006772 | 74.85 | 680545 |
Audit Committee to | |||||||
determine the | |||||||
External Auditor's | |||||||
remuneration | |||||||
18. To authorise the | 514312809 | 96.33 | 19591658 | 3.67 | 533904467 | 74.83 | 776705 |
Company to make | |||||||
political donations | |||||||
19. To renew the | 470093544 | 87.98 | 64212871 | 12.02 | 534306415 | 74.89 | 373087 |
Directors' authority | |||||||
to allot shares | |||||||
20. To renew the | 516420517 | 96.96 | 16215853 | 3.04 | 532636370 | 74.65 | 2047231 |
Directors' power to | |||||||
disapply pre- | |||||||
emption rights in | |||||||
respect of up to 5% | |||||||
of issued share | |||||||
capital | |||||||
21. To authorise the | 511054807 | 95.96 | 21514110 | 4.04 | 532568917 | 74.65 | 2112258 |
Directors' power to | |||||||
disapply pre- | |||||||
emption rights in | |||||||
respect of an | |||||||
additional 5% of | |||||||
issued share capital | |||||||
22. To renew the | 526814105 | 98.62 | 7389268 | 1.38 | 534203373 | 74.87 | 482115 |
Company's | |||||||
authority to | |||||||
purchase its own | |||||||
shares | |||||||
23. To amend the | 532246408 | 99.62 | 2025175 | 0.38 | 534271583 | 74.88 | 405205 |
Company's Articles | |||||||
of Association | |||||||
24. To authorise the | 466681159 | 87.33 | 67688991 | 12.67 | 534370150 | 74.90 | 314401 |
Directors to call a | |||||||
general meeting on | |||||||
14 clear days' | |||||||
notice |
Resolutions 20 to 24 are special resolutions.
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.
As at the close of business on 26 May 2021, the issued share capital of the Company consisted of 736,535,179 ordinary shares of 10 pence each, 23,071,190 of which were held as treasury shares. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company as at that time were 713,463,989.
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