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British Land Co PLC
19 July 2016
RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The British Land Company PLC (the 'Company') announces that all
resolutions were passed by
shareholders at the Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held earlier
today. The results of the poll are
set out in the table below and will also be available on the
Company's website:
www.britishland.com/investors/shareholder-centre/agm/2016 .
Votes were cast for a total of 756,267,780 ordinary shares of
the Company, representing 73.47 per cent of the total number of
votes capable of being cast at the AGM.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions
relating to special business (resolutions 18 to 25) will be
submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be
available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
VOTES
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For As % Against As %
of votes of votes
RESOLUTION cast cast Withheld1
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1. To receive
the Annual Report
and Accounts
for the year
ended 31 March
2016 748,720,369 99.26 5,550,463 0.74 2,237,462
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2. To approve
the Directors'
Remuneration
Report 715,113,263 96.01 29,690,657 3.99 11,704,372
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3. To approve
the Directors'
Remuneration
Policy 727,144,638 97.13 21,494,166 2.87 7,869,489
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4. To re-elect
Aubrey Adams
as a Director 756,116,267 99.98 116,620 0.02 275,407
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5. To re-elect
Lucinda Bell
as a Director 753,233,314 99.62 2,902,224 0.38 372,756
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6. To re-elect
Simon Borrows
as a Director 756,073,880 99.98 162,048 0.02 272,366
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7. To re-elect
John Gildersleeve
as a Director 754,665,435 99.79 1,565,850 0.21 277,009
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8. To re-elect
Lynn Gladden
as a Director 755,930,854 99.96 302,035 0.04 275,405
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9. To re-elect
Chris Grigg
as a Director 754,668,127 99.79 1,564,804 0.21 275,363
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10. To re-elect
William Jackson
as a Director 755,893,317 99.96 339,320 0.04 275,657
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11. To re-elect
Charles Maudsley
as a Director 753,336,244 99.62 2,896,956 0.38 275,094
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12. To re-elect
Tim Roberts
as a Director 753,338,506 99.62 2,894,677 0.38 275,111
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13. To re-elect
Tim Score as
a Director 756,179,859 99.99 50,773 0.01 277,662
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14. To re-elect
Lord Turnbull
as a Director 727,020,756 96.97 22,685,865 3.03 6,801,672
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15. Tore- elect
Laura Wade-
Gery as a Director 755,912,182 99.97 216,243 0.03 379,869
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16. To re-appoint
PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP as the auditor
of the Company 754,249,702 99.73 2,018,078 0.27 240,514
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17. To authorise
the Directors
to agree the
auditor's remuneration 753,897,842 99.69 2,343,483 0.31 266,969
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18. To authorise
the payment
of scrip dividends 755,596,945 100.00 35,306 0.00 876,043
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19. To authorise
the Company
to make limited
political donations
and political
expenditure
of
not more than
GBP20,000 in
total 746,960,749 99.37 4,725,748 0.63 4,821,796
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20. To authorise
amendments to
the Long-Term
Incentive Plan 744,210,248 98.58 10,682,672 1.42 1,615,373
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21. To authorise
the Directors
to allot shares
up to a limited
amount 684,840,176 90.56 71,399,884 9.44 268,234
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22. To authorise
the Directors
to allot shares
and sell treasury
shares for cash,
without making
a pre-emptive
offer to shareholders2 744,123,246 99.20 6,032,147 0.80 6,352,901
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23. To authorise
the Directors
to allot additional
shares and sell
treasury shares
for cash, without
making a pre-emptive
offer to shareholders
in line with
recommendations
of the Pre-Emption
Group 2 731,266,314 97.47 18,948,265 2.53 6,293,714
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24. To authorise
the Company
to purchase
its own shares2 746,384,523 99.29 5,339,030 0.71 4,784,741
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25. To authorise
the calling
of general meetings
(not being an
AGM) by notice
of not less
than 14 clear
days2 622,705,812 82.85 128,890,697 17.15 4,911,785
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(1) A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in
the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against each
resolution.
(2) These resolutions were proposed as Special Resolutions.
Enquiries:
Company Secretariat
Heledd Hanscomb, British Land 020 7467 2852
York House, 45 Seymour Street, London W1H 7LX
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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