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2008 AGM

At the Annual General Meeting of Smith & Nephew plc held on Thursday 1 May 2008 all resolutions were passed on a poll. The table below shows the number of votes received for and against each resolution. Notice of the annual general meeting is contained here and a detailed explanation of the business at the meeting is outlined here.

	FOR/DISCRETION	AGAINST	VOTE WITHHELD
Resolution	No. of Votes	No. of Votes	No. of Votes
1. To adopt the report and accounts	608,893,728	2,466,417	2,293,126
2. To approve the remuneration report	376,217,815	196,476,118	40,959,338
3. To confirm the interim dividends	612,960,733	630,899	61,639
4. To re-elect Mr John Buchanan	599,461,835	9,461,273	4,730,163
5. To re-elect Dr Pamela J. Kirby	610,123,240	3,452,847	77,184
6. To re-elect Mr Brian Larcombe	610,146,150	3,426,652	80,469
7. To re-elect Dr Rolf W.H. Stomberg	602,264,576	7,368,082	4,020,613
8. To reappoint the auditors	597,362,935	16,123,653	166,683
9. To authorise the directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors	602,959,020	10,583,105	111,146
10. To renew the directors' authority to allot shares	609,200,533	3,826,680	626,058
11. To renew the directors' authority for the disapplication of pre-emption rights	597,748,467	15,715,913	188,891
12. To renew the directors' limited authority to make market purchases of the Company's own shares	609,807,902	3,732,529	112,840
13. To adopt the revised Articles of Association	609,931,047	3,520,774	201,450
14. To approve the increase of initial market value of awards under the Performance Share Plan	573,322,213	27,816,496	12,514,562