2015

The 2015 Annual General Meeting of Balfour Beatty plc was held at 11.00 am on Thursday, 14 May 2015 at the Park Plaza Victoria, 239 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1EQ

2015 AGM Information
Notice of Meeting PDF 0.2MB

AGM Poll Results

Balfour Beatty plc (the “Company”) announces that, at its Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) held earlier today, the resolutions set out in the Notice of AGM dated 14 April 2015 were passed following a poll on each resolution.

The results of the polls were as follows:

  ForAgainstVotes Withheld

Resolution 1: To adopt the Directors’ Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2014

492,027,435
(99.93%)

336,078
(0.07%)

7,977,260

Resolution 2: To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2014

326,935,338
(68.03%)

153,641,260
(31.97%)

19,764,175

Resolution 3: To elect Mr P S Aiken AM as a Director

491,723,287
(98.45%)

7,739,172
(1.55%)

 878,314

Resolution 4: To re-elect Mr R M Amen as a Director

492,056,363
(98.46%)

7,682,033
(1.54%)

602,138

Resolution 5: To elect Mr S J Doughty CMG as a Director

496,858,753
(99.43%)

2,869,248
(0.57%)

 612,533

Resolution 6: To re-elect Mr I G T Ferguson CBE as a Director

 491,216,250
(98.30%)

8,517,729
(1.70%)

606,555

Resolution 7: To re-elect Mrs V M Kempston Darkes as a Director

495,411,465
(99.13%)

4,327,931
(0.87%)

 601,180

Resolution 8: To elect Mr L M Quinn as a Director

487,637,129
(97.58%)

12,114,031
(2.42%)

587,471

Resolution 9: To re-elect Mr G C Roberts as a Director

491,487,761
(98.35%)

8,247,006
(1.65%)

 605,767

Resolution 10: To reappoint Deloitte LLP as auditor

468,913,236
(99.02%)

4,621,623
(0.98%)

 26,804,176

Resolution 11: To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditor

471,672,143
(98.92%)

5,152,972
(1.08%)

 23,515,419

Resolution 12: To authorise the Company and its UK subsidiaries to incur political expenditure

491,538,820
(98.37%)

8,161,440
(1.63%)

640,274

Resolution 13: To authorise the Directors to allot shares

494,284,582
(98.91%)

5,460,465
(1.09%)

595,487

Resolution 14: To authorise the Directors to allot shares for cash*

499,188,791
(99.89%)

554,542
(0.11%)

596,201

Resolution 15: To renew the authority for the Company to purchase its own ordinary and preference shares*

499,318,983
(99.92%)

415,736
(0.08%)

  605,815

Resolution 16: To authorise the Company to hold on 14 clear days’ notice*

465,976,950
(93.28%)

33,546,717
(6.72%)

 816,867 

* Special resolution

Notes:

  1. The percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.
  2. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of votes “For” and “Against” a resolution.
  3. The total number of Ordinary Shares of 50p each in the Company in issue at 6.00 pm on 12 May 2015 was 689,509,381, each carrying one vote.  
  4. Resolutions 14 to 16 were each passed as Special Resolutions.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of each of Resolutions 12 to 16 will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.