Morrisons AGM announcement

Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held on 9 June 2011 at Hilmore House, Gain Lane, Bradford, BD3 7DL, each of the resolutions submitted to the meeting (as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 26 April 2011) was proposed and passed by the appropriate majority on a poll.

Accordingly, the following matters were approved:

The Report and Accounts for the 52 weeks ended 30 January 2011 were approved and adopted;
The Remuneration Report was approved;
The final dividend of 8.37p per ordinary share was approved;
Sir Ian Gibson, Dalton Philips, Richard Pennycook, Philip Cox, Penny Hughes, Nigel Robertson and Johanna Waterous were each reappointed to the Board;
The auditors, KPMG Audit plc, were reappointed;
The Directors were authorised to fix the auditors’ remuneration;
The Directors were authorised to make market purchases by the Company of its own shares;
The Directors were granted allotment authorities on a pre-emptive basis in respect of up to £86,000,000 of the Company’s capital and allotment authorities for cash on a non pre-emptive basis in respect of up to £13,168,000 of the Company’s capital;
The arrangements for holding General Meetings were approved in the manner set out in the notice of meeting;

The poll votes on each resolution were as follows:

Resolution	For	% For	Against	% Against	Total votes	Votes withheld
1. Approval of Directors’ Report and Audited Financial Statements	1,705,673,436	99.73	4,629,108	0.27	1,710,302,544	5,843,324
2. Approval of Remuneration Report	1,573,884,719	93.15	115,797,980	6.85	1,689,682,699	26,455,089
3. Approval of final dividend	1,711,369,589	100.00	17,252	0.00	1,711,386,841	4,760,223
4. Re-election of Sir Ian Gibson	1,703,288,292	99.55	7,736,717	0.45	1,711,025,009	5,106,356
5.Re-election of Dalton Philips	1,637,537,758	95.69	73,750,506	4.31	1,711,288,264	4,832,465
6. Re-election of Richard Pennycook	1,707,022,038	99.77	3,954,785	0.23	1,710,976,823	5,136,510
7. Re-election of Philip Cox	1,686,018,955	98.54	24,996,142	1.46	1,711,015,097	5,106,774
8. Re-election of Penny Hughes	1,668,543,876	97.51	42,674,142	2.49	1,711,218,018	4,861,585
9. Re-election of Nigel Robertson	1,686,161,523	98.55	24,770,981	1.45	1,710,932,504	5,118,212
10. Re-election of Johanna Waterous	1,696,299,591	99.13	14,863,567	0.87	1,711,163,158	4,902,860
11. Re-appointment of KPMG Audit plc	1,634,293,464	96.89	52,382,826	3.11	1,686,676,290	29,410,192
12. Authorisation of Directors to set the Auditors fees	1,671,818,467	97.87	36,434,749	2.13	1,708,253,216	7,814,832
13. Grant of authority to purchase own shares	1,664,904,427	98.56	24,386,861	1.44	1,689,291,288	26,810,128
14. Grant of authority to allot shares on a pre-emptive basis	1,597,622,634	93.38	113,333,174	6.62	1,710,955,808	5,114,512
15. Grant of authority to allot shares for cash on a non pre-emptive basis	1,604,716,229	93.79	106,250,069	6.21	1,710,966,298	5,091,596
16. Approval of power for notice of general meetings (other than AGM) to be called on not less than 14 days notice	1,491,531,042	87.17	219,486,975	12.83	1,711,018,017	5,056,344

Resolutions 1 to 12 and Resolution 14 were ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 13, 15 and 16 were special resolutions.

Votes ‘For’ include votes at the discretion of the Chairman. Votes withheld are not counted in the count of the total votes or the calculations of the percentages For or Against each resolution. Percentages are rounded to two decimal places. Total shares in issue at the time of the meeting were 2,619,806,334.

Greg McMahon

Company Secretary and Head of Legal Services
Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc
Tel: 0845 611 6902

Registered Office:

Hilmore House
Gain Lane
Bradford
BD3 7DL

Company Number: 358949

Published 10/06/2011

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