CRH shareholders re-elect 12 directors and approve Equity Incentive Plan at May 8 AGM
CRH's shareholders approved a series of governance changes at the 2025 Annual General Meeting on May 8, 2025, including amendments to the company's Articles effective that day, and re-elected all 12 director nominees. They also approved the CRH plc Equity Incentive Plan, which reserves 15 million ordinary shares and will replace the 2014 Performance Share Plan and other discretionary share plans, with some exceptions.
Key points
- All 12 director nominees were re-elected; Jim Mintern received 501,900,102 votes for and Richie Boucher received 474,966,274 votes for, with 27,065,642 against.
- The Equity Incentive Plan was approved with 483,930,381 votes for and 18,075,734 against.
- Shareholders approved amendments to the Articles, including a plurality voting standard for contested director elections and board authority to set its size and director fees.
- In an advisory vote, shareholders chose annual 'Say-on-Pay' votes, with 499,105,127 votes for annually.
The filing
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