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Smiths News PLC
31 January 2024

31 January 2024

SMITHS NEWS PLC

Result of 2024 Annual General Meeting

Smiths News plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at 11.30am today all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed by shareholders by way of a poll. The voting results are shown below.

Resolution

For

Against

Withheld

No. of votes

%

No. of votes

%

No. of votes

1

To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the 52-week period ended 26 August 2023

144,040,479

100.00%

3,223

0.00%

51,305

2

To approve the directors' remuneration report for the 52-week period ended 26 August 2023

127,710,514

88.72%

16,243,992

11.28%

140,501

3

To declare a final dividend

144,080,634

100.00%

0

0.00%

14,373

3

To re-elect David Blackwood

139,957,926

97.21%

4,020,543

2.79%

116,538

5

To re-elect Jonathan Bunting

143,792,368

99.82%

253,123

0.18%

49,516

6

To re-elect Denise Collis

132,924,709

99.52%

634,889

0.48%

10,535,409

7

To re-elect Michael Holt

143,414,237

99.56%

632,332

0.44%

48,438

8

To re-elect Mark Whiteling

143,414,363

99.56%

627,737

0.44%

52,907

9

To re-elect Paul Baker

143,806,192

99.83%

247,298

0.17%

41,517

10

To elect Deborah Rabey

143,900,095

99.90%

143,006

0.10%

51,906

11

To re-appoint the auditor

144,035,126

99.98%

25,259

0.02%

34,622

12

To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration

143,961,402

99.98%

26,749

0.02%

106,856

13

Authority to make political donations

108,529,201

99.43%

620,971

0.57%

34,944,835

14

Authority to allot shares

133,186,343

92.46%

10,866,310

7.54%

42,354

15

Authority to partially disapply pre-emption rights*

143,364,512

99.56%

628,660

0.44%

101,835

16

Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*

143,936,766

99.90%

144,595

0.10%

13,646

17

Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice*

119,371,416

99.77%

276,591

0.23%

24,447,000

* Special resolution requiring 75% majority of those votes cast at the meeting.

Notes:

1. Percentages are rounded to two decimal places.

2. Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and have been included in the "For" total.

3. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution.

4. The number of votes validly cast were in respect of 144,081,361 shares, representing 58.18% of the 247,659,200 issued share capital of the Company, being the total number of shares in issue at 6.30pm on 30th January 2024.

5. The full text of all of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of AGM dated 4 December 2023 which is available on the Company's website. Resolutions 15, 16 and 17 were special resolutions, requiring 75% majority of those votes cast at the meeting.

6. In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the special business passed at the AGM, being resolutions 14, 15, 16 and 17, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

7. The results of the AGM voting will also be made available on the Company's website at https://www.smithsnews.co.uk/investor-zone

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