HSBC 2012 Annual Report Download - page 519

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Overview Operating & Financial Review Corporate Governance Financial Statements Shareholder Information
Shareholder profile
At 31 December 2012 the share register recorded the following details:
Ordinary shares held
Number of
shareholders
Total
shares held
1-100 ........................................................................................................................................................ 35,872 1,075,355
101-400 .................................................................................................................................................... 30,307 7,425,370
401-500 .................................................................................................................................................... 7,833 3,538,962
501-1,000 ................................................................................................................................................. 31,490 23,056,605
1,001-5,000 .............................................................................................................................................. 72,523 170,851,837
5,001-10,000 ............................................................................................................................................ 18,840 133,212,606
10,001-20,000 .......................................................................................................................................... 10,978 153,114,553
20,001-50,000 .......................................................................................................................................... 6,673 204,789,957
50,001-200,000 ........................................................................................................................................ 3,271 301,012,906
200,001-500,000 ...................................................................................................................................... 721 223,700,082
500,001 and above ................................................................................................................................... 1,050 17,254,230,431
Total ......................................................................................................................................................... 219,558 18,476,008,664
2012 Annual General Meeting
All Directors listed on pages 302 to 307 attended the 2012 Annual General Meeting with the exception of G Morgan
who was unable to attend and R Fassbind and J Comey who were appointed Directors on 1 January 2013 and
4 March 2013, respectively. G Morgan ceased to be a Director from the conclusion of the 2012 Annual General
Meeting.
All resolutions considered at the 2012 Annual General Meeting held at 11.00am on 25 May 2012 at The Barbican
Centre, London EC2 were passed on a poll as follows:
Total votes
Resolution For1 Against Vote withheld2
1 To receive the Report and Accounts for 2011 .................................................. 8,674,241,734 135,201,316 7,347,647
2 To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Report for 2011 .............................. 7,603,837,582 863,308,512 342,947,482
3 To elect or re-elect the following as Directors:
(a) S A Catz .................................................................................................... 8,804,928,221 9,610,127 5,875,570
(b) L M L Cha ................................................................................................ 8,648,658,349 47,870,917 123,714,457
(c) M K T Cheung .......................................................................................... 8,802,099,054 12,615,523 5,630,308
(d) J D Coombe .............................................................................................. 8,628,180,910 186,062,475 5,852,946
(e) J Faber ......................................................................................................
8,796,984,821 17,580,853 5,861,373
(f) R A Fairhead ............................................................................................ 8,743,788,851 118,900,468 5,802,585
(g) D J Flint .................................................................................................... 8,619,018,008 168,004,948 33,368,432
(h) A A Flockhart ........................................................................................... 8,774,240,102 40,569,601 5,687,412
(i) S T Gulliver .............................................................................................. 8,775,424,304 39,522,674 5,558,005
(j) J W J Hughes-Hallett ............................................................................... 8,771,227,801 43,514,682 5,732,794
(k) W S H Laidlaw ......................................................................................... 8,749,103,878 65,588,171 5,762,796
(l) J P Lipsky ................................................................................................. 8,804,822,657 9,552,202 5,949,328
(m) J R Lomax ................................................................................................ 8,694,903,617 21,801,654 103,551,962
(n) I J Mackay ................................................................................................ 8,780,813,350 33,915,545 5,752,704
(o) N R N Murthy .......................................................................................... 8,799,839,273 14,888,406 5,752,109
(p) Sir Simon Robertson ................................................................................ 8,637,007,606 48,054,956 123,743,083
(q) J L Thornton ............................................................................................. 8,248,542,395 336,922,956 233,310,057
4 To reappoint the Auditor at remuneration to be determined by the
Group Audit Committee ............................................................................... 8,658,879,219 145,175,480 16,773,808
5 To authorise the Directors to allot shares ......................................................... 8,598,678,631 214,223,057 6,232,394
6 To disapply pre-emption rights (Special Resolution) ...................................... 8,613,126,301 195,480,323 12,092,143
7 To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares .................................... 8,775,533,630 39,890,867 5,250,428
8 To authorise the Directors to offer a scrip dividend alternative........................ 8,805,094,483 5,763,369 9,412,655
9 To approve general meetings (other than annual general meetings) being
called on 14 clear days’ notice (Special Resolution) ................................... 7,876,386,438 937,298,004 6,966,206
1 Includes discretionary votes.
2 A ‘Vote Withheld’ is not a ‘vote’ in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes ‘For’ and ‘Against’ the resolution.