placeholder 2

Investors

Press Release

Coca-Cola EP PLC - Result of AGM

25 May 2023
RNS Number : 6680A
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc
25 May 2023
 

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc - Results of 2023 Annual General Meeting

 

The Annual General Meeting of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc (the "Company") was held at 1A Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0EA, United Kingdom on 24 May 2023.

 

All 30 resolutions put to the members were passed on a poll. Accordingly, resolutions 1 to 25 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 26 to 30 were passed as special resolutions.

 

The results of the polls are set out below:

 

Resolution

For (see note 1)

Against (see note 1)

Issued share capital represented by votes (see note 2) %

Votes withheld (see note 3)

Votes

%

Votes

%

1

Receipt of the Report and Accounts

401,608,982

99.99

26,657

0.01

87.53

128,634

2

Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Policy

398,060,389

99.10

3,633,330

0.90

87.54

70,554

3

Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Report

326,900,982

81.46

74,386,007

18.54

87.46

477,284

4

Election of Mary Harris as a director of the Company

396,165,343

98.62

5,556,799

1.38

87.55

42,131

5

Election of Nicolas Mirzayantz as a director of the Company

400,647,801

99.73

1,072,640

0.27

87.55

43,832

6

Election of Nancy Quan as a director of the Company

398,247,371

99.15

3,424,603

0.85

87.54

92,299

7

Re-election of Manolo Arroyo as a director of the Company

327,016,025

81.52

74,146,730

18.48

87.43

601,518

8

Re-election of John Bryant as a director of the Company

383,925,736

95.57

17,796,001

4.43

87.55

42,536

9

Re-election of José Ignacio Comenge as a director of the Company

340,400,836

84.85

60,755,599

15.15

87.43

607,838

10

Re-election of Damian Gammell as a director of the Company

399,665,278

99.49

2,051,202

0.51

87.55

47,793

11

Re-election of Nathalie Gaveau as a director of the Company

400,239,659

99.63

1,481,491

0.37

87.55

43,123

12

Re-election of Álvaro Gómez-Trénor Aguilar as a director of the Company

398,255,592

99.15

3,410,195

0.85

87.54

98,486

13

Re-election of Thomas H Johnson as a director of the Company

380,352,717

94.68

21,369,090

5.32

87.55

42,466

14

Re-election of Dagmar Kollmann as a director of the Company

396,872,734

98.79

4,849,967

1.21

87.55

41,572

15

Re-election of Alfonso Líbano Daurella as a director of the Company

398,282,906

99.16

3,388,947

0.84

87.54

92,420

16

Re-election of Mark Price as a director of the Company

397,432,894

98.93

4,289,121

1.07

87.55

42,258

17

Re-election of Mario Rotllant Solá as a director of the Company

398,299,343

99.16

3,371,732

0.84

87.54

93,198

18

Re-election of Dessi Temperley as a director of the Company

395,888,495

98.55

5,826,476

1.45

87.55

49,302

19

Re-election of Garry Watts as a director of the Company

400,282,236

99.64

1,440,199

0.36

87.55

41,838

20

Reappointment of the Auditor

394,397,371

98.18

7,312,398

1.82

87.55

54,504

21

Remuneration of the Auditor

400,455,127

99.69

1,244,559

0.31

87.55

64,587

22

Political Donations

400,327,265

99.84

634,426

0.16

87.38

802,582

23

Authority to allot new shares

390,691,176

97.26

10,997,388

2.74

87.54

75,709

24

Waiver of mandatory offer provisions set out in Rule 9 of the Takeover Code (see note 4)

183,391,655

78.07

51,524,688

21.93

51.20

166,847,930

25

Approval of Long Term Incentive Plan

398,632,467

99.24

3,054,500

0.76

87.54

77,306

26

General authority to disapply pre-emption rights

398,050,840

99.38

2,465,812

0.62

87.29

1,247,621

27

General authority to disapply pre-emption rights in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment

397,109,783

99.14

3,462,858

0.86

87.30

1,191,632

28

Authority to purchase own shares on market

400,401,708

99.78

873,833

0.22

87.45

488,732

29

Authority to purchase own shares off market

394,934,181

98.42

6,335,082

1.58

87.45

495,010

30

Notice period for general meetings other than annual general meetings

390,811,804

97.29

10,895,895

2.71

87.55

56,574

 

Notes:

 

1

Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes received.

 

2

As at 4.30pm on Monday 22 May 2023, the time by which shareholders who wanted to attend, speak and vote at the AGM must have been entered on the Company's register of members, there were 458,846,191 ordinary shares in issue.

 

3

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.

 

4

Resolution 24 was put to the AGM as a resolution of the shareholders of the Company other than Olive Partners, S.A. ("Olive") or any concert party of Olive.

 

Resolution 24, being the ordinary resolution to approve the waiver by the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers under Rule 9 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers (the "Rule 9 waiver") in connection with the Company's buyback programme was duly passed by 78.07% of the votes cast by the independent shareholders of the Company (being shareholders other than Olive and its presumed concert parties) with 21.93% of votes against. Resolution 24 is a standing agenda item at each Annual General Meeting to enable CCEP to exercise the authorities under Resolution 28 to purchase its own shares on market and Resolution 29 to purchase its own shares off market, which were passed with majorities of 99.78% and 98.42% respectively. This will enable CCEP to make use of the option to return value to shareholders through a possible future buyback programme. Had Resolution 24 not been passed, the Company would not have been able to effect such buyback programmes, as explained in the Notice of AGM and also in the Letter to Shareholders issued via RNS on 15 May 2023. CCEP intends to continue to engage with ISS on their standing policy to recommend a vote against a Rule 9 waiver which we believe may be influencing investor decisions in this regard. In addition, CCEP will continue to engage, in normal course and as appropriate, with shareholders who did not support Resolution 24 to understand the reasons for their vote against the proposal and to continue a transparent and constructive dialogue on this topic.

 

Olive is currently interested in 166,128,987 shares in the Company and the Waiver does not entitle Olive to be interested in a greater number of shares. The Waiver would allow Olive's interest in shares as a percentage of the Company's total shares to increase as a result of the exercise of the Company's authorities to purchase its own shares, but only to the extent that the resulting interest of Olive, together with any concert parties, in the shares of the Company did not then exceed 40.2797%.

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 14.3.6R, copies of the resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

 

 

CONTACTS

 

Company Secretariat

Clare Wardle

T +44 (0)20 7355 8406

Investor Relations

Sarah Willett

T +44 (0)7970 145 218

Media Relations

Shanna Wendt

T +44 (0)7976 595 168

 

 

 

ABOUT CCEP

 

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is one of the world's leading consumer goods companies. We make, move and sell some of the world's most loved brands - serving 600 million consumers and helping 2 million customers across 29 countries grow. We combine the strength and scale of a large, multi-national business with an expert, local knowledge of the customers we serve and communities we support. The Company is currently listed on Euronext Amsterdam, the NASDAQ Global Select Market, London Stock Exchange and on the Spanish Stock Exchanges, trading under the symbol CCEP.

 

For more information about CCEP, please visit www.cocacolaep.com & follow CCEP on Twitter at @CocaColaEP.

 

 

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com or visit www.rns.com.

RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy.
 
END
 
 
RAGEANSSASXDEEA

Read our factsheet

Our employees make, sell and distribute the world's most loved drinks brands, serving a consumer population of more than 600 million across 30 markets.