Annual General Meeting 2023 Results

Released : 23/05/2023 14:22:00

RNS Number : 3879AForterra plc23 May 2023

Forterra plc

Annual General Meeting 2023 Results

The Annual General Meeting of Forterra plc (the "Company") was held at the offices of Forterra plc, Atherstone Road, Measham, Swadlincote, Derbyshire, DE12 7EL on Tuesday 23rd May 2023 at 12:00pm.

All of the resolutions were voted upon by poll and were passed by shareholders. The total number of ordinary shares in issue was 212,803,389 shares.

The full text of each resolution is contained in the notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available on the Company's website www.forterraplc.co.uk (with each resolution number below corresponding to the resolution number in the notice).

The total number of votes for and against each of the resolutions put before the Annual General Meeting and the number of votes withheld were as follows.

Resolution

Votes for

Votes Against

Total Votes Cast(excluding withheld)

Votes Withheld*

No of Shares

% of shares voted

No of Shares

% of shares voted

No of shares

Resolution 1

To receive and adopt the Annual Report and Accounts to 31 December 2022

146,294,014

99.99

101

0.01

146,294,115

116,053

Resolution 2

To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as Auditor.

145,395,837

99.31

1,010,032

0.6%

146,405,869

4,299

Resolution 3

To authorise the remuneration of the Auditor

146,396,920

99.99

7,229

0.01

146,404,149

6,019

Resolution 4

To declare the final dividend of 10.1 pence per Ordinary Share for the year ended 31 December 2022

146,406,400

99.99

101

0.01

146,406,501

3,667

Resolution 5

To re-elect Justin Atkinson as a Director

144,938,621

99.00

1,466,214

1.00

146,404,835

5,333

Resolution 6

To elect Neil Ash as a

Director

146,389,965

99.99

5,120

0.01

146,395,085

15,083

Resolution 7

To re-elect Ben Guyatt as a Director

144,805,319

98.91

1,591,206

1.09

146,396,525

13,643

Resolution 8

To re-elect Katherine Innes Ker as a Director

143,502,675

98.02

2,892,410

1.98

146,395,085

15,083

Resolution 9

To re-elect Divya Seshamani as a Director

145,031,074

99.07

1,364,011

0.93

146,395,085

15,083

Resolution 10

To re-elect Martin Sutherland as a Director

145,032,159

99.07

1,362,926

0.93

146,395,085

15,083

Resolution 11

To re-elect Vince Niblett as a Director

145,027,206

99.07

1,368,793

0.93

146,395,999

14,169

Resolution 12

To elect Gina Jardine as a

Director

146,372,084

99.98

23,915

0.02

146,395,999

14,169

Resolution 13

To approve the Directors Remuneration Policy set out on pages 124 to 134 of the Annual Report

143,683,761

98.14

2,721,345

1.86

146,405,106

5,062

Resolution 14

To approve the Report of the Remuneration Committee (excluding the Remuneration Policy set out on pages 124-134 of the Annual Report)

143,216,609

97.83

3,183,645

2.17

146,400,254

9,914

Resolution 15

To authorise the Company to make political donations

145,316,756

99.95

67,101

0.05

145,383,857

1,026,311

Resolution 16

To authorise the Directors to allot share capital

143,568,048

98.06

2,837,451

1.94

146,405,499

4,669

Resolution 17 **

To disapply statutory exemption rights

143,907,212

98.30

2,494,937

1.70

146,402,149

8,019

Resolution 18 **

To disapply statutory exemption rights

142,896,608

97.60

3,508,291

2.40

146,404,899

5,269

Resolution 19 **

To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares

145,300,367

99.31

1,015,162

0.69

146,315,529

94,639

Resolution 20 **

To authorise the Company to hold general meetings (other than an Annual General meeting) with 14 clear days' notice

144,507,753

98.70

1,896,261

1.30

146,404,014

6,154

In accordance with the requirements of LR 9.6.3 and 9.6.18 copies of Resolutions 16-20 will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism which is located at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

Notes:

*Votes 'withheld' are not votes under English law and so have not been included in the calculation of whether a resolution is carried.  Percentages have been rounded to two decimal places.

** Special resolution.

For further information contact:

Forterra plc

+44 (0)1604 707600

Ashley Thompson, Company Secretary


FTI Consulting:

+44 (0)20 3727 1340

Richard Mountain


Nick Hasell


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