G4S - AGM 2015 Poll Results

G4S plc, the parent company of the G4S global integrated security group, announces that, at its AGM held on 4 June 2015, all the resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed.

This included resolutions: to allow the payment of political donations; to allow general meetings other than AGMs to be called on 14 days’ notice; and a general authority to make market purchases for up to 10% of its own shares.

The board has no present intention of utilising the authority to buy back shares, which has been renewed in accordance with common business practice.

The results of the poll on the resolutions put before the AGM are:

Resolution	For	%	Against	%	Withheld*	Total votes
1. To adopt the financial statements and reports of directors and auditor	1,243,124,237	99.94	688,008	0.06	381,308	1,243,812,245
2.To approve the Directors’ remuneration report	1,205,582,283	96.92	38,297,746	3.08	334,376	1,243,880,029
3. To confirm and declare the dividend	1,243,894,185	>99.99	24,848	<0.01	312,119	1,243,919,033
4. Re-election of Ashley Almanza as a director	1,240,258,360	99.71	3,596,894	0.29	330,664	1,243,855,254
5. Re-election of John Connolly as a director	1,226,564,395	98.67	16,585,128	1.33	1,037,477	1,243,149,523
6. Re-election of Adam Crozier as a director	1,243,696,787	99.99	157,577	0.01	342,637	1,243,854,364
7. Re-election of Mark Elliott as a director	1,243,064,591	99.94	756,160	0.06	376,249	1,243,820,751
8. Re-election of Winnie Kin Wah Fok as a director	1,242,992,603	99.93	874,481	0.07	329,917	1,243,867,084
9. Re-election of Himanshu Raja as a director	1,243,720,310	99.99	103,064	0.01	373,627	1,243,823,374
10. Re-election of Paul Spence as a director	1,243,736,161	99.99	87,591	0.01	373,249	1,243,823,752
11. Re-election of Clare Spottiswoode as a director	1,159,042,348	95.71	51,976,012	4.29	33,178,640	1,211,018,360
12. Re-election of Tim Weller as a director	1,243,489,236	99.97	326,647	0.03	381,118	1,243,815,883
13. To appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor	1,243,137,913	99.94	684,331	0.06	374,357	1,243,822,244
14. To authorise the directors to determine the auditor’s remuneration	1,243,669,241	99.98	213,940	0.02	345,420	1,243,883,181
15. To authorise the directors to allot shares up to a specified amount	1,220,843,823	98.24	21,879,888	1.76	1,503,808	1,242,723,711
16. Special resolution to give authority to directors to disapply statutory pre-emption rights	1,163,712,744	93.57	79,942,519	6.43	571,756	1,243,655,263
17. Special resolution to give limited authority for the purchase of its own shares by the company	1,243,341,459	99.99	144,521	0.01	743,962	1,243,485,980
18. Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure	1,228,233,968	99.22	9,660,277	0.78	6,348,670	1,237,894,245
19. Special resolution to authorise the calling of general meetings (excluding Annual General Meetings) on 14 days’ notice	1,143,716,724	91.96	100,025,306	8.04	454,961	1,243,742,030

Grahame Gibson and Mark Seligman retired from the board at the conclusion of the meeting and so there were no resolutions relating to their re-election.

As announced previously, John Daly will be appointed as a director on 5 June 2015. Mr Daly will be an independent non-executive director and upon appointment will be a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees.

In compliance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of resolutions 15 to 19 have been forwarded to the FCA for publication through its document viewing facility where they will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

The percentage of issued share capital which was voted was 80.2%**.

* Votes withheld are not votes in law and are not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against a resolution.

**Total voting rights of the shares in issue: 1,551,594,436. Every shareholder has one vote for every ordinary share held.

G4S - AGM 2015 Poll Results

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