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William Hill PLC
15 May 2019
WILLIAM HILL PLC
Result of 2019 Annual General Meeting (AGM)
15 May 2019
William Hill PLC (LSE:WMH) announces that at its Annual General
Meeting ('AGM') held today, Wednesday 15 May 2019 at 2.30pm at No.
11 Cavendish Square, 11-13 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0AN, all
resolutions were passed by shareholders.
The full text of the resolutions considered are contained in the
2019 Notice of Meeting dated 11 March 2019. These documents are
available on the William Hill PLC website
http://www.williamhillplc.com/.
The following table shows the total number of votes cast for
each resolution:
Resolution For Against %
% Withheld
To receive the annual report
1 and accounts 606,431,041 99.98 106,848 0.02 8,760,535
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To approve the annual report
2 on remuneration 529,853,631 99.83 916,747 0.17 84,525,283
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3 To declare a final dividend 615,165,224 100.00 29,550 0.00 103,640
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4 To elect Gordon Wilson 614,215,583 99.97 211,655 0.03 869,868
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5 To re-elect Roger Devlin 611,103,419 99.46 3,315,623 0.54 875,374
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6 To re-elect Philip Bowcock 612,473,771 99.67 2,004,464 0.33 819,591
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7 To re-elect Ruth Prior 611,722,707 99.55 2,757,204 0.45 817,915
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8 To re-elect Mark Brooker 611,605,364 99.53 2,865,768 0.47 826,694
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9 To re-elect Georgina Harvey 611,620,527 99.54 2,847,801 0.46 829,498
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10 To re-elect Robin Terrell 607,735,118 98.90 6,730,590 1.10 832,118
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To authorise the Audit and
Risk Management Committee
11 to re-appoint the Auditors 591,287,543 96.12 23,869,515 3.88 141,258
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To authorise the Audit and
Risk Management Committee
to determine the auditors'
12 remuneration 611,063,182 99.34 4,086,002 0.66 149,133
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Authority to make or incur
EU political donations and
13 EU political expenditure 597,752,272 97.17 17,440,169 2.83 96,389
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14 Authority to allot securities 530,446,851 86.24 84,668,500 13.76 182,966
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To disapply statutory pre-emption
15 right* 529,620,440 86.11 85,464,392 13.89 211,856
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To authorise the Company
16 to purchase its own shares* 605,458,753 98.45 9,544,641 1.55 294,922
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To authorise the Company
to call general meetings,
other than annual general
meetings, on not less than
17 14 clear days' notice* 599,373,131 97.43 15,803,556 2.57 121,630
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*Special Resolution requiring a 75% majority
Any proxy votes which are at the discretion of the Chairman have
been included in the "For" total. A vote withheld is not a vote in
law and is not counted towards votes cast "For" or "Against" a
resolution. The total issued share capital of the Company as at
close of business on 15 May 2019 was 900,725,706 with total voting
rights as at the same date of 874,098,790.
A copy of the resolutions passed at the meeting, other than
ordinary business, will be uploaded today to the National Storage
Mechanism and will shortly be available for viewing at
www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
The total votes cast for each resolution will also be displayed
on the corporate website www.williamhillplc.com.
OAM: Additional Regulated Information
LEI: 213800MDW41W5UZQIX82
Enquiries:
Balbir Kelly-Bisla
Company Secretary
William Hill PLC
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7612 3000
About William Hill
William Hill PLC is one of the world's leading betting and
gaming companies, employing c15,500 people. Its origins are in the
UK where it was founded in 1934, and where it is listed on the
London Stock Exchange. The majority of its GBP1.6 billion annual
revenues are still derived from the UK, where it has a national
presence of licensed betting offices and one of the leading online
betting and gaming services. In 2012, it established William Hill
US with a focus on retail and mobile operations in Nevada, the
largest sports betting business in the US. Following the ruling in
May 2018 by the US Supreme Court that the federal ban on state
sponsored sports betting was unconstitutional, William Hill US has
expanded into new states as they regulate sports betting. It is now
operating in seven states: Nevada, New Jersey, Delaware, Rhode
Island, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. William Hill's
Online business acquired Mr Green & Co AB in January 2019,
growing its international operations. William Hill PLC is listed on
the London Stock Exchange and is a member of both the FTSE 250 and
FTSE4Good Indices.
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