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Annual General Meeting 2009
Our AGM was held at 11am (UK time) on Friday 15 May 2009
The 2009 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Standard Life plc was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, The Exchange, Morrison Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EE, Scotland on Friday 15 May 2009 at 11am (UK time).
What happened at the meeting?
Shareholders were given the opportunity to vote on the resolutions, including the proposed final dividend payment for 2008.
The resolutions…
The Board of Standard Life plc is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting earlier today were duly passed. The results of the polls were as follows:
| Resolution | For | Against | Withheld |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resolution 1 - To receive and consider the Annual Report and Accounts for 2008 | 657,046,798 | 2,259,099 | 1,494,892 |
| Resolution 2 - To approve the Directors' remuneration report | 634,500,850 | 21,307,327 | 4,961,806 |
| Resolution 3 - To declare a final dividend for 2008 | 657,824,348 | 2,324,872 | 649,244 |
| Resolution 4 - To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors | 646,926,097 | 4,698,055 | 9,181,332 |
| Resolution 5 - To authorise the Directors to set the auditors' fees | 655,206,264 | 3,486,068 |
2,071,146 |
| Resolutions 6 - A - To re-elect Crawford Gillies as a Director |
651,489,580 | 5,376,323 | 3,929,460 |
| B - To re-elect Gerry Grimstone as a Director | 651,149,419 | 5,832,666 | 3,829,503 |
| Resolution 7 - To authorise the Directors to issue further shares | 648,546,809 | 10,017,211 | 2,164,570 |
| Resolution 8 (Special resolution) - To disapply share pre-emption rights | 646,956,887 | 8,607,626 | 5,230,905 |
| Resolution 9 (Special resolution) - To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 10% of its issued ordinary shares | 645,386,049 | 13,237,206 | 2,114,539 |
| Resolution 10 - To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure | 622,466,867 |
33,287,952 | 4,852,636 |
| Resolution 11 (Special resolution) - To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days' notice | 643,384,720 | 15,245,704 | 2,160,491 |
| Resolution 12 - To authorise the offer of a Scrip dividend scheme | 652,652,063 | 5,785,102 | 2,322,918 |
| Resolution 13 (Special resolution) - To make changes to the Company's articles of association in connection with the proposed Scrip dividend scheme | 651,306,771 | 5,753,826 | 2,715,862 |
The total number of shares in issue is 2,180,852,000 ordinary shares of 10 pence each.
Votes withheld are not a vote in law, and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution.
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