Beazley plc
London, 25 April 2024
Beazley plc - 2024 Annual General Meeting Results
Beazley plc held its annual general meeting for shareholders at 2.30pm today and announces that all the resolutions were duly passed.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.3, full details of the resolutions passed as special business will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection.
For information, the results of the AGM are set out below. The total number of votes received for each resolution is set out below. The number of 5p ordinary shares in issue and the number of voting rights on 23 April 2024 was 667,416,392.
Resolution | Description | Votes in | Votes Against | Votes |
No. | Favour and | Withheld | ||
discretionary | ||||
1 | To receive the | |||
accounts for the | ||||
financial year ended | ||||
31 December 2023, | ||||
together with the | ||||
Directors' report and | ||||
Auditor's report | 497,523,015 | 3,422 | 3,456,755 | |
thereon | ||||
2 | To approve the | |||
Directors' | ||||
Remuneration report | ||||
for the financial year | ||||
ended 31 December | 491,842,606 | 9,093,854 | 46,732 | |
2023 | ||||
3 | To approve the | |||
payment of an interim | ||||
dividend of 14.2 | 500,971,145 | 3,422 | 8,625 | |
pence per ordinary | ||||
share | ||||
4 | To re-elect Rajesh | |||
Agrawal as a Director | 499,325,332 | 6,502 | 1,651,358 | |
of the Company |
5To re-elect Clive
Bannister as a | |||
Director of the | 492,107,308 | 8,836,589 | 39,294 |
Company |
6To re-elect Adrian Cox as a Director of the
Company | 500,968,145 | 6,422 | 8,625 | |
7 | To re-elect Pierre- | |||
Olivier Desaulle as a | ||||
Director of the | 495,944,618 | 5,029,621 | 8,952 | |
Company | ||||
8 | To re-elect Nicola | |||
Hodson as a Director | ||||
of the Company | 494,598,755 | 6,345,142 | 39,295 | |
9 | To re-elect Sally Lake | |||
as a Director of the | ||||
Company | 499,433,942 | 1,509,958 | 39,292 | |
10 | To re-elect Fiona | |||
Muldoon as a Director | ||||
of the Company | 499,886,727 | 1,057,173 | 39,292 | |
11 | To re-elect John | |||
Reizenstein as a | ||||
Director of the | 495,914,276 | 5,029,621 | 39,294 | |
Company | ||||
12 | To re-elect Cecilia | |||
Reyes Leuzinger as a | ||||
Director of the | ||||
Company | 495,903,343 | 5,040,554 | 39,294 | |
13 | To re-elect Robert | |||
Stuchbery as a | ||||
Director of the | ||||
Company | 500,936,942 | 6,422 | 39,828 | |
14 | To elect Carolyn | |||
Johnson as a new | ||||
Director of the | ||||
Company | 500,937,478 | 6,422 | 39,292 | |
15 | To re-appoint EY as | |||
Auditors of the | ||||
Company | ||||
498,532,147 | 2,439,420 | 11,625 | ||
16 | To authorise the Audit | |||
Committee to | ||||
determine EY's | 500,869,097 | 76,010 | 38,085 | |
remuneration | ||||
17 | To authorise the | |||
Directors to allot | ||||
shares | ||||
479,312,154 | 21,631,743 | 39,295 | ||
18* | To authorise the | |||
disapplication of pre- | ||||
emption rights | 500,808,598 | 126,302 | 48,292 | |
19* | To authorise the | |||
Company to make | 499,123,382 | 1,634,203 | 225,607 | |
market purchases of | ||||
Ordinary Shares | ||||
20* | To allow the Company | |||
to hold general | ||||
meetings (other than | ||||
annual general | ||||
meetings) on not less | 483,930,441 | 17,004,779 | 47,972 | |
than 14 clear days' | ||||
notice |
* Special resolution
For further information please contact:
Beazley plc
Christine Oldridge
+44 (0)20 7674 7758
Note to editors:
Beazley plc (BEZ.L), is the parent company of specialist insurance businesses with operations in Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia. Beazley manages six Lloyd's syndicates and, in 2023, underwrote gross premiums worldwide of $5,601.4million. All Lloyd's syndicates are rated A by A.M. Best.
Beazley's underwriters in the United States focus on writing a range of specialist insurance products. In the admitted market, coverage is provided by Beazley Insurance Company, Inc., an A.M. Best A rated carrier licensed in all 50 states and its subsidiary, Beazley America Insurance Company, Inc. In the surplus lines market, coverage is provided by the Beazley syndicates at Lloyd's, and from 1 January 2024, also from Beazley Excess and Surplus Insurance, Inc.
Beazley's European insurance company, Beazley Insurance dac, is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland and is A rated by A.M. Best and A+ by Fitch.
Beazley is a market leader in many of its chosen lines, which include Professional Indemnity, Cyber Liability, Property, Marine, Reinsurance, Accident and Life, and Political Risks and Contingency business.
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