RNS Number : 5224P
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc
22 May 2024
 

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc - Results of 2024 Annual General Meeting

 

The Annual General Meeting of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc (the "Company") was held at 1A Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0EA, United Kingdom on 22 May 2024.

 

All 28 resolutions put to the members were passed on a poll. Accordingly, resolutions 1 to 23 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 24 to 28 were passed as special resolutions.

 

The results of the polls are set out below:

 

Resolution

For (see note 1)

Against (see note 1)

Issued share capital represented by votes (see note 2) %

Votes withheld (see note 3)

Votes

%

Votes

%

1

Receipt of the Report and Accounts

417,915,503

99.98%

84,142

0.02%

90.80%

165,250

2

Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Report

408,427,256

97.69%

9,671,156

2.31%

90.82%

66,483

3

Election of Guillaume Bacuvier as a director of the Company

417,344,334

99.82%

753,320

0.18%

90.82%

67,241

4

Re-election of Manolo Arroyo as a director of the Company

352,724,956

84.40%

65,209,737

15.60%

90.79%

230,202

5

Re-election of John Bryant as a director of the Company

408,678,515

97.75%

9,419,404

2.25%

90.82%

66,976

6

Re-election of José Ignacio Comenge as a director of the Company

352,652,123

84.38%

65,282,168

15.62%

90.79%

230,604

7

Re-election of Damian Gammell as a director of the Company

416,806,975

99.69%

1,292,257

0.31%

90.82%

65,663

8

Re-election of Nathalie Gaveau as a director of the Company

417,146,635

99.77%

956,155

0.23%

90.82%

62,105

9

Re-election of Álvaro Gómez-Trénor Aguilar as a director of the Company

413,747,999

98.97%

4,298,816

1.03%

90.81%

118,080

10

Re-election of Mary Harris as a director of the Company

415,184,936

99.30%

2,917,792

0.70%

90.82%

62,167

11

Re-election of Thomas H Johnson as a director of the Company

412,097,539

98.71%

5,389,827

1.29%

90.69%

677,529

12

Re-election of Dagmar Kollmann as a director of the Company

413,468,454

98.89%

4,633,001

1.11%

90.82%

63,440

13

Re-election of Alfonso Líbano Daurella as a director of the Company

413,712,935

98.96%

4,332,282

1.04%

90.81%

119,678

14

Re-election of Nicolas Mirzayantz as a director of the Company

417,234,944

99.79%

863,710

0.21%

90.82%

66,241

15

Re-election of Mark Price as a director of the Company

415,125,553

99.29%

2,973,834

0.71%

90.82%

65,508

16

Re-election of Nancy Quan as a director of the Company

414,285,512

99.10%

3,763,369

0.90%

90.81%

116,014

17

Re-election of Mario Rotllant Solá as a director of the Company

413,720,470

98.97%

4,325,159

1.03%

90.81%

119,266

18

Re-election of Dessi Temperley as a director of the Company

413,478,571

98.89%

4,620,609

1.11%

90.82%

65,715

19

Reappointment of the Auditor

416,614,352

98.44%

6,612,884

1.56%

91.94%

66,091

20

Remuneration of the Auditor

421,133,129

99.51%

2,057,505

0.49%

91.93%

102,693

21

Political Donations

417,056,454

99.78%

918,561

0.22%

90.79%

189,880

22

Authority to allot new shares

408,033,822

97.60%

10,037,443

2.40%

90.82%

93,630

23

Waiver of mandatory offer provisions set out in Rule 9 of the Takeover Code (see note 4)

194,046,934

77.06%

57,772,359

22.94%

54.70%

166,345,602

24

General authority to disapply pre-emption rights

415,239,434

99.54%

1,899,379

0.46%

90.61%

1,026,082

25

General authority to disapply pre-emption rights in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment

414,883,787

99.44%

2,322,775

0.56%

90.63%

958,333

26

Authority to purchase own shares on market

417,292,312

99.85%

626,560

0.15%

90.78%

246,023

27

Authority to purchase own shares off market

415,861,913

99.51%

2,060,176

0.49%

90.78%

242,806

28

Notice period for general meetings other than annual general meetings

410,065,918

98.08%

8,021,153

1.92%

90.82%

77,824

 

Notes:

 

1

Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes received.

 

2

As at 12:00pm on Monday 20 May 2024, the time by which shareholders who wanted to attend, speak and vote at the AGM must have been entered on the Company's register of members, there were 460,354,782 ordinary shares in issue.

 

3

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.

 

4

Resolution 23 was put to the AGM as a resolution of the shareholders of the Company other than Olive Partners, S.A. ("Olive") or any concert party of Olive.

 

Resolution 23, being the ordinary resolution to approve the waiver by the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers under Rule 9 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers (the "Rule 9 waiver") in connection with the Company's buyback programme was duly passed by 77.06% of the votes cast by the independent shareholders of the Company (being shareholders other than Olive and its presumed concert parties) with 22.94% of votes cast against. Resolution 23 is a standing agenda item at each Annual General Meeting to enable CCEP to exercise the authorities under Resolution 26 to purchase its own shares on market and Resolution 27 to purchase its own shares off market, which were passed with majorities of 99.85% and 99.51% respectively. This will enable CCEP to make use of the option to return value to shareholders through a possible future buyback programme. Had Resolution 23 not been passed, the Company would not have been able to effect such buyback programmes, as explained in the Notice of AGM and also in the Letter to Shareholders issued via RNS on 10 May 2024. CCEP intends to continue to engage with ISS on their standing policy to generally recommend a vote against Rule 9 waivers which we believe may be a contributing factor in influencing investor decisions in this regard. In addition, CCEP will continue to engage, in normal course and as appropriate, with shareholders who did not support Resolution 23 to understand the reasons for their vote against the proposal and to continue a transparent and constructive dialogue on this topic.

 

Olive is currently interested in 166,128,987 shares in the Company and the Waiver does not entitle Olive to be interested in a greater number of shares. The Waiver would allow Olive's interest in shares as a percentage of the Company's total shares to increase as a result of the exercise of the Company's authorities to purchase its own shares, but only to the extent that the resulting interest of Olive, together with any concert parties, in the shares of the Company did not then exceed 40.1034%.

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 14.3.6R, copies of the resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

 

 

CONTACTS

 

Company Secretariat

Clare Wardle

T +44 (0)20 7355 8406

Investor Relations

Sarah Willett

T +44 (0)7970 145 218

Media Relations

Shanna Wendt

T +44 (0)7976 595 168

 

 

 

ABOUT CCEP

 

CCEP is one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We make, move and sell some the world's most loved brands - serving 600 million consumers and helping more than 2 million customers across 31 countries grow.  We combine the strength and scale of a large, multi-national business with an expert, local knowledge of the customers we serve and communities we support.  The Company is currently listed on Euronext Amsterdam, NASDAQ (and a constituent of the Nasdaq 100), London Stock Exchange and on the Spanish Stock Exchanges, trading under the symbol CCEP.

 

For more information about CCEP, please visit www.cocacolaep.com & follow CCEP on LinkedIn @Coca-Cola Europacific Partners | LinkedIn

 

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