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Results Of Voting At The 2024 Annual General Meeting
British American Tobacco p.l.c.
Incorporated in England and Wales
(Registration number: 03407696)
Short name: BATS
Share code: BTI
ISIN number: GB0002875804
British American Tobacco p.l.c. (the "Company")
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO p.l.c. (the "Company")
RESULTS OF VOTING AT THE 2024 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
British American Tobacco p.l.c. (the 'Company') announces the result of voting on the resolutions at its
Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held on Wednesday 24 April 2024 at the Hilton London Bankside, 2-8 Great
Suffolk St, London, SE1 0UG. The full text of the resolutions, along with the explanatory notes, is set out in
the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 6 March 2024.
The table below sets out the results of the poll on each of the total of 18 Resolutions as stated in the Notice
of Meeting dated 6 March 2024. All valid proxy votes (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy
form) were included in the poll taken at the Meeting. Each shareholder, present in person or by proxy, was
entitled to one vote per ordinary share of 25p held.
Resolution Votes For % of Votes % of Votes Votes cast in Total
votes against votes Withheld total cast as
cast cast a % of
issued
share
capital
1. Receipt of
2023 Report
and Accounts 1,559,437,174 99.92% 1,317,303 0.08% 3,805,932 1,560,754,477 69.96%
2. Approval of
the 2023
Directors'
Remuneration
Report 1,509,240,342 96.58% 53,407,399 3.42% 1,912,941 1,562,647,741 70.05%
3.
Reappointment
of KPMG LLP as
Auditors 1,556,850,256 99.57% 6,795,887 0.43% 914,541 1,563,646,143 70.09%
4. Authority for
the Audit
Committee to
agree the
Auditors'
remuneration 1,560,713,936 99.90% 1,615,637 0.10% 1,014,365 1,562,329,573 70.03%
5. Re-election
of Luc Jobin as
a Director 1,531,219,660 98.02% 30,973,962 1.98% 2,363,416 1,562,193,622 70.03%
6. Re-election
of Tadeu
Marroco as a
Director 1,557,735,694 99.65% 5,490,762 0.35% 1,330,583 1,563,226,456 70.07%
7. Re-election
of Kandy Anand
as a Director 1,549,504,697 99.19% 12,602,921 0.81% 2,449,099 1,562,107,618 70.02%
8. Re-election
of Karen
Guerra as a 1,556,517,530 99.66% 5,233,889 0.34% 2,805,620 1,561,751,419 70.01%
Director
9. Re-election
of Holly Keller
Koeppel as a
Director 1,525,141,299 97.65% 36,632,714 2.35% 2,783,025 1,561,774,013 70.01%
10. Re-election
of Véronique
Laury as a
Director 1,557,724,282 99.74% 4,003,179 0.26% 2,829,578 1,561,727,461 70.00%
11. Re-election
of Darrell
Thomas as a
Director 1,551,141,034 99.40% 9,411,952 0.60% 2,789,068 1,560,552,986 69.95%
12. Election of
Murray S.
Kessler as a
Director 1,558,460,567 99.87% 2,084,492 0.13% 2,796,995 1,560,545,059 69.95%
13. Election of
Serpil Timuray
as a Director 1,550,667,488 99.37% 9,836,177 0.63% 2,837,854 1,560,503,665 69.95%
14. Authority
to make
donations to
political
organisations
and to incur
political
expenditure 1,422,302,938 91.55% 131,343,301 8.45% 9,695,908 1,553,646,239 69.64%
15. Renewal of
Directors'
authority to
allot shares 1,382,169,882 88.53% 179,159,404 11.47% 2,014,357 1,561,329,286 69.99%
16. Renewal of
Directors'
authority to
disapply pre-
emption rights 1,399,468,962 89.65% 161,547,570 10.35% 2,327,110 1,561,016,532 69.97%
17. Authority
for the
Company to
make market
purchases of
ordinary shares 1,550,414,809 99.27% 11,412,226 0.73% 1,516,608 1,561,827,035 70.01%
18. Notice
period for
General
Meetings 1,474,384,914 94.37% 87,916,244 5.63% 1,042,484 1,562,301,158 70.03%
All resolutions were passed at the Company's AGM today with the requisite majority of votes.
Sue Farr and Dimitri Panayotopoulos stepped down from the Board as Non-Executive Directors at the
conclusion of the Company's 2024 AGM. Ms Farr's and Mr Panayotopoulos's retirement from the Board
follows the Company's announcement on 6 February 2024, as further set out in the Company's 2023 Annual
Report and Form 20-F.
The number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding Treasury shares) at the close of business on Tuesday 23
April 2024 was 2,230,669,954. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. A vote withheld is not a
vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution. All
valid proxy votes (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form) were included in the poll. Proxy
appointments which gave discretion to the Chair have been included in the total votes 'for' the respective
resolutions.
In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.2R and 9.6.3R, copies of Resolutions 16 to 18 will be submitted to the
Financial Conduct Authority and will in due course be available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
C Worlock
Assistant Secretary
British American Tobacco p.l.c.
24 April 2024
Enquiries:
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+44 (0)20 7845 2888 (24 hours) /@BATPlc
Investor Relations
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Sponsor: Merrill Lynch South Africa (Pty) Ltd t/a BofA Securities
Date: 24-04-2024 05:00:00
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