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Rio Tinto PLC
09 April 2021
Rio Tinto plc - 2021 annual general meeting voting results
9 April 2021
The annual general meeting of Rio Tinto plc was held on 9 April
2021.
Under Rio Tinto's dual listed companies structure established in
1995, decisions on significant matters affecting shareholders of
Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited in similar ways are taken
through a joint electoral procedure. Resolutions 1 to 17 of the Rio
Tinto plc annual general meeting fall into this category, and the
results of the voting on these resolutions will be announced
shortly after the Rio Tinto Limited annual general meeting which
will be held in Australia on 6 May 2021.
The remaining resolutions 18 to 22 were put to Rio Tinto plc
shareholders on a poll at the annual general meeting today. The
results of that poll are set out below.
The addresses given by the Chairman, the Chief Executive and the
Remuneration Committee Chairman are available at
https://www.riotinto.com/invest/shareholder-information/annual-general-meetings
.
Resolutions For/Discretion % for Against Total votes % of issued Withheld*
(no of votes) / discretion (no of votes) validly share capital
cast voted
18. Renewal
of and amendment
to the Rio
Tinto UK
Share Plan 958,961,532 99.74% 2,503,754 961,465,286 77.06% 1,824,362
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19. General
authority
to allot
shares 942,842,741 98.06% 18,684,984 961,527,725 77.07% 1,746,184
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20. Disapplication
of pre-emption
rights 958,441,387 99.73% 2,635,516 961,076,903 77.03% 2,210,031
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21. Authority
to purchase
Rio Tinto
plc shares 766,908,987 79.77% 194,541,112 961,450,099 77.06% 1,839,548
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22. Notice
period for
general
meetings
other than
annual general
meetings 907,313,113 94.36% 54,268,727 961,581,840 77.07% 1,704,804
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*It should be noted that a vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law
and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes
for and against each resolution.
For the purposes of section 341 of the UK Companies Act 2006,
the votes validly cast are expressed in the table as a percentage
of Rio Tinto plc's total issued share capital (excluding shares
held in Treasury) as at 8pm on 7 April 2021, being the time at
which a shareholder had to be registered in the Company's register
of members in order to attend and vote at the annual general
meeting. The number of shares in issue was 1,255,764,724 (excluding
Treasury shares 1,247,682,690 ).
The Company notes that Resolution 21 'Authority to purchase Rio
Tinto plc shares' was passed with less than 80% of votes in favour.
Shining Prospect (a subsidiary of the Aluminium Corporation of
China "Chinalco") voted against Resolution 21. Chinalco has not
sold any of its shares in Rio Tinto plc and now has a holding of
over 14% given its non-participation in the Company's significant
share buyback programmes. This places Chinalco close to the 14.99%
holding threshold agreed with the Australian Government at the time
of its original investment in Rio Tinto.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of all the
resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted
to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for
inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .
LEI: 213800YOEO5OQ72G2R82
Classification: 3.1. Additional regulated information required
to be disclosed under the laws of a Member State
This announcement is authorised for release to the market by Rio
Tinto's Group Company Secretary.
Contacts
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Grant Donald
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Investor Relations, United Kingdom Investor Relations, Australia
Menno Sanderse Natalie Worley
T: +44 20 7781 1517 T +61 3 9283 3063
M: +44 7825 195 178 M +61 409 210 462
David Ovington Amar Jambaa
T +44 20 7781 2051 T +61 3 9283 3627
M +44 7920 010 978 M +61 472 865 948
Clare Peever
M: +44 7788 967 877
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Group Company Secretary Joint Company Secretary
Steve Allen Tim Paine
Rio Tinto plc Rio Tinto Limited
6 St James's Square Level 7, 360 Collins Street
London SW1Y 4AD Melbourne 3000
United Kingdom Australia
T +44 20 7781 2000 T +61 3 9283 3333
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