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Overview Operating & Financial Review Corporate Governance Financial Statements Shareholder Information
Shareholder profile
At 31 December 2011 the share register recorded the following details:
Ordinary shares held
Number of
shareholders
Total
shares held
1-100 ........................................................................................................................................................ 34,733 1,067,341
101-400 .................................................................................................................................................... 30,943 7,573,632
401-500 .................................................................................................................................................... 8,040 3,622,372
501-1,000 ................................................................................................................................................. 32,597 23,768,949
1,001-5,000 .............................................................................................................................................. 72,770 170,449,966
5,001-10,000 ............................................................................................................................................ 18,839 132,925,448
10,001-20,000 .......................................................................................................................................... 10,923 152,501,184
20,001-50,000 .......................................................................................................................................... 6,638 203,900,430
50,001-200,000 ........................................................................................................................................ 3,239 300,236,172
200,001-500,000 ...................................................................................................................................... 728 226,085,756
500,001 and above ................................................................................................................................... 1,054 16,645,954,396
Total ......................................................................................................................................................... 220,504 17,868,085,646
Annual General Meeting
The 2012 Annual General Meeting will be held at the Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London EC2 on Friday,
25 May 2012 at 11.00am.
An informal meeting of shareholders will be held at 1 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong on Monday, 21 May 2012
at 4.30pm.
All resolutions considered at the 2011 Annual General Meeting were passed on a poll as follows:
Total votes
Resolution For1 Against Vote withheld2
1 To receive the Report and Accounts for 2010 .................................................. 8,402,552,510 121,753,797 8,933,799
2 To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Report for 2010 .............................. 6,652,053,048 1,533,867,244 345,803,377
3 To re-elect the following as Directors:
(a) S A Catz .................................................................................................... 8,486,056,759 42,942,731 4,216,052
(b) L M L Cha ................................................................................................ 8,504,179,153 24,913,796 4,042,906
(c) M K T Cheung .......................................................................................... 8,483,733,987 45,080,957 4,016,464
(d) J D Coombe .............................................................................................. 8,422,716,423 106,361,370 4,171,828
(e) R A Fairhead ............................................................................................ 8,409,921,019 28,560,255 94,165,150
(f) D J Flint .................................................................................................... 7,652,721,692 782,284,813 97,589,253
(g) A A Flockhart ........................................................................................... 8,510,224,707 19,041,066 3,951,542
(h) S T Gulliver .............................................................................................. 8,508,743,721 19,690,410 4,068,563
(i) J W J Hughes-Hallett ............................................................................... 8,471,725,040 57,260,985 4,166,213
(j) W S H Laidlaw ......................................................................................... 8,422,582,981 106,557,176 4,082,503
(k) J R Lomax ................................................................................................ 8,485,476,787 43,437,834 4,288,262
(l) I J Mackay ................................................................................................ 8,514,104,374 14,924,509 4,046,710
(m) G Morgan .................................................................................................
7,528,102,732 1,000,850,178 4,176,157
(n) N R N Murthy .......................................................................................... 8,485,387,759 43,412,993 4,414,399
(o) Sir Simon Robertson ................................................................................ 8,509,368,189 18,917,076 4,756,190
(p) J L Thornton ............................................................................................. 7,811,758,522 639,498,922 80,247,625
(q) Sir Brian Williamson ................................................................................ 8,502,895,120 25,794,017 4,326,166
4 To reappoint the Auditor at remuneration to be determined by the
Group Audit Committee ............................................................................... 8,471,110,207 34,535,501 27,595,572
5 To authorise the Directors to allot shares ......................................................... 8,361,978,479 164,736,911 6,526,785
6 To disapply pre-emption rights (Special Resolution) ...................................... 8,410,136,124 114,104,282 9,000,469
7 To approve the HSBC Share Plan 2011 …. ...................................................... 7,232,592,954 1,139,440,811 157,713,821
8 To approve fees payable to non-executive Directors ....................................... 8,339,832,648 49,875,814 142,372,789
9 To approve general meetings (other than annual general meetings) being
called on 14 clear days’ notice (Special Resolution) ................................... 7,757,094,552 769,200,534 6,472,597
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.