Alliance Trust PLC - Result of AGM

Alliance Trust PLC

Annual General Meeting

Alliance Trust PLC announces the results of voting on the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting, held earlier today in Dundee. Due to the restrictions on travel and attendance at meetings the Annual General Meeting was not open to shareholders other than those required to form the quorum and all votes were on a poll.

A summary of the votes cast in respect of the resolutions is set out below. Each of the resolutions was passed with the required majority.

	Resolution	Votes for	%	Votes against	%	Percentage of issued share capital voted	Votes withheld
1	Report & Accounts	87,580,483	100.00	3,758	0.00	27.65%	47,722
2	Directors’ remuneration report (excluding Remuneration Policy)	87,176,569	99.75	215,113	0.25	27.59%	240,281
3	To approve the Dividend Policy	87,545,046	99.96	37,603	0.04	27.65%	49,314
4	Re-election of Mr Gregor Stewart	86,349,717	98.66	1,170,657	1.34	27.63%	111,589
5	Re-election of Mr Anthony Brooke	87,388,910	99.88	108,583	0.12	27.62%	134,470
6	Re-election of Ms Jo Dixon	87,051,988	99.46	470,298	0.54	27.63%	109,677
7	Re-election of Mrs Clare Dobie	87,336,517	99.79	186,357	0.21	27.63%	109,089
8	Re-election of Mr Chris Samuel	87,202,827	99.64	318,265	0.36	27.63%	110,871
9	Re-election of Mr Karl Sternberg	87,128,146	99.57	373,397	0.43	27.62%	130,420
10	Election of Ms Sarah Bates	87,016,609	99.49	444,951	0.51	27.61%	170,403
11	Election of Mr Dean Buckley	87,397,729	99.89	92,263	0.11	27.62%	141,971
12	Appointment of BDO as Auditor	87,423,997	99.85	130,225	0.15	27.64%	77,741
13	Remuneration of the Auditor	87,461,917	99.89	92,607	0.11	27.64%	77,439
14	To approve the conversion of the Merger Reserve	87,189,576	99.77	200,855	0.23	27.59%	238,536
15	To approve Articles of Association	82,140,393	93.87	5,360,598	6.13	27.62%	130,972
16	Authority to purchase Company shares	87,342,817	99.73	238,361	0.27	27.65%	50,785
17	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	87,194,430	99.63	319,775	0.37	27.63%	117,758
18	Authority to hold meetings at 14 days’ notice	86,501,360	98.81	1,040,176	1.19	27.63%	90,427

The number of shares in issue as at the date of the meeting was 316,787,681

NOTES
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, the full text of resolutions 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 which were special resolutions, passed by the Company at its 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

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