Annual General Meeting 2013
Our AGM was held at 2.00pm, Tuesday 14 May 2013 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
You can see how our shareholders voted below.
| Resolutions | For | Against | Withheld |
| Resolution 1: To receive and consider the Annual Report and accounts for 2012 | 965,491,593 | 1,298,834 | 10,069,296 |
| Resolution 2: To approve the Directors’ remuneration report | 882,413,708 | 37,372,850 | 38,980,605 |
| Resolution 3: To declare a final dividend for 2012 | 957,531,200 | 337,034 | 898,929 |
| Resolution 4: To declare a special dividend | 956,704,043 | 990,182 | 1,072,938 |
| Resolution 5: To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors | 937,568,584 | 8,326,218 | 12,872,361 |
| Resolution 6: To authorise the Directors to set the auditors’ fees | 950,304,465 | 4,259,645 | 4,193,526 |
| Resolution 7A: To re-elect Sir Gerry Grimstone | 943,834,205 | 11,847,689 | 3,085,012 |
| Resolution 7B: To re-elect Colin Buchan | 949,158,613 | 6,321,649 | 3,286,644 |
| Resolution 7C: To re-elect Pierre Danon | 948,551,902 | 6,692,690 | 3,522,314 |
| Resolution 7D: To re-elect Crawford Gillies | 948,462,938 | 7,055,857 | 3,248,111 |
| Resolution 7E: To re-elect David Grigson | 929,251,998 | 26,194,633 | 3,320,275 |
| Resolution 7F: To re-elect Jacqueline Hunt | As Jacqueline Hunt resigned from the Company on 26 April 2013, this resolution was not proposed at the Annual General Meeting. | ||
| Resolution 7G: To re-elect David Nish | 949,495,133 | 5,988,599 | 3,283,431 |
| Resolution 7H: To re-elect John Paynter | 949,215,346 | 6,002,132 | 3,539,892 |
| Resolution 7I: To re-elect Lynne Peacock | 949,129,547 | 6,287,648 | 3,349,248 |
| Resolution 7J: To re-elect Keith Skeoch | 949,252,541 | 6,081,732 | 3,426,024 |
| Resolution 8: To elect Noel Harwerth | 947,829,353 | 6,913,250 | 4,009,532 |
| Resolution 9: To authorise the Directors to issue further shares | 945,700,229 | 10,057,183 | 3,009,751 |
| Resolution 10: To disapply share pre-emption rights | 945,278,255 | 7,824,191 | 5,664,717 |
| Resolution 11: To give authority for the Company to buy back shares | 951,211,559 | 4,819,751 | 2,735,853 |
| Resolution 12: To provide limited authority to make political donations and to incur political expenditure | 900,330,978 | 53,179,542 | 5,242,083 |
| Resolution 13: To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days’ notice | 867,583,700 | 88,534,438 | 2,648,300 |
Issued share capital and total voting rights
On 5 March 2013 the Company's issued share capital consisted of 2,358,031,854 ordinary shares, carrying one vote each. No shares were held in treasury. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company as at 5 March 2013 were 2,358,031,854.