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2009 AGM

At the Annual General Meeting of Smith & Nephew plc held on Thursday 30 April 2009 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	585,749,265	9,335,876	4,430,013
2. To approve the remuneration report	375,788,949	173,384,013	50,342,191
3. To confirm the interim dividends	597,186,411	91,589	2,235,994
4. To re-elect Mr David Illingworth	552,118,713	25,500,462	21,895,978
5. To re-elect Mr Joseph Papa	597,025,294	1,247,553	1,242,312
6. To re-elect Dr Rolf Stomberg	586,181,550	11,719,966	1,613,638
7. To reappoint the auditors	577,476,109	14,711,255	7,327,789
8. To authorise the directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors	592,433,210	5,762,773	1,319,176
9. To renew the directors' authority to allot shares	571,730,150	26,521,848	1,263,161
10. To adopt the revised rules of the Smith & Nephew French Sharesave Plan (2002)	594,715,282	3,191,012	1,608,860
11. To renew the directors' authority for the disapplication of pre-emption rights	568,025,802	28,175,936	3,313,421
12. To renew the directors' limited authority to make market purchases of the Company's own shares	597,051,883	1,229,516	1,233,760
13. To authorise the Company to call general meetings, other than annual general meetings, on 14 clear days’ notice	575,385,772	21,832,157	2,297,230