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Coca-Cola Euro Ptnrs - Result of AGM

28 May 2020

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Coca-Cola European Partners plc

28 May 2020

 

Coca-Cola European Partners plc - Results of 2020 Annual General Meeting

 

The Annual General Meeting of Coca-Cola European Partners plc (the "Company") was held at Pemberton House, Bakers Road, Uxbridge UB8 1EZ on 27 May 2020.

 

All 25 resolutions put to the members were passed on a poll. Accordingly, resolutions 1 to 21 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 22 to 25 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

392,183,394

99.99%

14,881

0.01%

86.36%

551,707

2

Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Policy

390,642,124

99.48%

2,051,225

0.52%

86.47%

56,633

3

Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Report

389,159,565

99.15%

3,348,477

0.85%

86.42%

241,940

4

Election of Jan Bennink as a director of the Company

391,583,576

99.71%

1,127,074

0.29%

86.47%

39,332

5

Election of Thomas H. Johnson as a director of the Company

385,008,802

98.07%

7,570,542

1.93%

86.44%

170,638

6

Election of Dessi Temperley as a director of the Company

392,602,000

99.97%

104,367

0.03%

86.47%

43,615

7

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

388,436,398

98.92%

4,254,184

1.08%

86.46%

59,400

8

Re-election of Francisco Crespo Benítez as a director of the Company

388,719,970

98.99%

3,969,343

1.01%

86.46%

60,669

9

Re-election of Irial Finan as a director of the Company

339,168,295

86.74%

51,837,537

13.26%

86.09%

1,744,150

10

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

390,045,140

99.32%

2,664,383

0.68%

86.47%

40,459

11

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

392,374,244

99.91%

341,362

0.09%

86.47%

34,376

12

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

387,103,428

98.91%

4,253,401

1.09%

86.17%

1,393,153

13

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

388,519,939

98.93%

4,191,130

1.07%

86.47%

38,913

14

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

387,107,180

98.91%

4,252,102

1.09%

86.17%

1,390,700

15

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

392,087,859

99.84%

621,579

0.16%

86.47%

40,544

16

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

340,677,065

87.13%

50,326,039

12.87%

86.09%

1,746,878

17

Reappointment of the Auditor

390,054,140

99.32%

2,663,329

0.68%

86.47%

32,513

18

Remuneration of the Auditor

392,504,743

99.95%

205,457

0.05%

86.47%

39,782

19

Political Donations

391,667,792

99.76%

939,216

0.24%

86.45%

142,974

20

Authority to allot new shares

362,799,226

92.39%

29,897,519

7.61%

86.47%

53,237

21

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

183,170,399

81.55%

41,439,675

18.45%

49.46%

167,188,375

22

Authority to disapply pre-emption rights

392,008,222

99.95%

193,813

0.05%

86.36%

547,947

23

Authority to purchase own shares on market

390,815,941

99.59%

1,625,631

0.41%

86.41%

308,410

24

Authority to purchase own shares off market

390,751,832

99.57%

1,676,632

0.43%

86.41%

321,518

25

Notice period for general meetings other than AGM

383,793,591

97.73%

8,907,602

2.27%

86.47%

48,789

 

Notes:

1

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

 

2

As at 4.30pm on Monday 25 May 2020, 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 454,161,479 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 21 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.

 

In particular, in accordance with Section 6(A) of Appendix 1 to the Takeover Code, the Company announces that shareholders approved resolution 21, setting out the terms of the waiver of mandatory offer provisions in Rule 9 of the Takeover Code (the "Waiver").

 

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 40.6441%.

 

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 European Partners plc is a leading consumer goods company in Western Europe, making, selling & distributing an extensive range of non-alcoholic ready to drink beverages & is the world's largest Coca-Cola bottler based on revenue. Coca-Cola European Partners serves a consumer population of over 300 million across Western Europe, including Andorra, Belgium, continental France, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain & Sweden. The Company is listed on Euronext Amsterdam, the New York Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange & 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

 


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