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Results of the 2025 Annual General Meeting

16 July 2025

The Company held its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 16 July 2025. All resolutions tabled at the Meeting were passed on a poll. Resolutions 1 to 12 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to 15 were passed as special resolutions.

The results of the poll for each resolution are shown in the table below:

 

Resolutions

VOTES FOR

%

VOTES AGAINST

%

VOTES
TOTAL

% of ISC VOTED

VOTES
WITHHELD

1. To receive the audited accounts of the Company for the year ended 28 February 2025, together with the Report of the Directors and the report of the Auditor thereon.

57,346,441

100.00

1,329

0.00

57,347,770

70.27%

34,994

2. To approve the Annual Statement by the Chair of the Remuneration Committee and the Annual Report on Directors' Remuneration for the year ended 28 February 2025.

53,467,523

94.66

3,016,867

5.34

56,484,390

69.21%

898,374

3. To declare a final dividend of 11.54p per Ordinary share.

57,380,184

100.00

1,127

0.00

57,381,311

70.31%

1,453

4. To re-elect John Bason as a Director of the Company.

54,266,737

94.59

3,100,782

5.41

57,367,519

70.30%

15,245

5. To re-elect Nigel Newton as a Director of the Company.

56,838,213

99.08

530,318

0.92

57,368,531

70.30%

14,233

6. To re-elect Leslie-Ann Reed as a Director of the Company.

56,923,027

99.23

442,717

0.77

57,365,744

70.29%

17,020

7. To re-elect Penny Scott-Bayfield as a Director of the Company.

57,358,655

99.98

9,364

0.02

57,368,019

70.30%

14,745

8. To re-elect Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey as a Director of the Company.

57,343,215

99.96

23,029

0.04

57,366,244

70.29%

16,520

9. To elect Dame Heather Rabbatts as a Director of the Company.

57,349,418

99.97

19,101

0.03

57,368,519

70.30%

14,245

10. To re-appoint Crowe U.K. LLP as Auditor of the Company.

57,355,684

99.98

11,597

0.02

57,367,281

70.30%

15,483

11. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration.

57,365,149

99.98

8,751

0.02

57,373,900

70.30%

8,864

12. To authorise the Directors to allot shares.

57,350,970

99.95

26,972

0.05

57,377,942

70.31%

4,822

13. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights.

56,066,057

97.72

1,309,190

2.28

57,375,247

70.31%

7,517

14. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights regarding acquisition/investment.

54,947,644

95.77

2,428,265

4.23

57,375,909

70.31%

6,855

15. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares.

56,446,523

99.96

21,869

0.04

56,468,392

69.19%

914,372

 

NOTES:

1.    The 'For' vote includes those giving discretion to the Chair of the Meeting.

2.    A 'Vote Withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution.

3.    As at Monday 14 July 2025, there were 81,608,672 ordinary shares of 1.25 pence in issue.

4.    The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website at www.bloomsbury-ir.co.uk.

5.    In accordance with Listing Rule 6.4.2 R, copies of the resolutions passed at the meeting other than those considered as ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

For further information, please contact:

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc


Maya Abu-Deeb, Group General Counsel & Company Secretary

[email protected]

 

Hudson Sandler

+44 (0) 20 7796 4133

Dan de Belder / Hattie Dreyfus / Emily Brooker

[email protected]

 

 

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