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Aviva plc
Annual report and accounts 2013
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History of share capital
The following table sets out information about the history of the Company’s ordinary shares over the last three full calendar years.
Number of
shares outstandin
g
At 1 January 2011 2,820,148,642
Shares issued under the Group’s Employee and Executive Share Option Schemes1 1,574,706
Shares issued in lieu of dividends2 83,989,590
At 31 December 2011 2,905,712,938
Shares issued under the Group’s Employee and Executive Share Option Schemes1 3,335,566
Shares issued in lieu of dividends2 36,923,757
At 31 December 2012 2,945,972,261
Shares issued under the Group’s Employee and Executive Share Option Schemes1 967,361
At 31 December 2013 2,946,939,622
1 For more information on our various option schemes, see note 32 in the financial statements.
2 The issue of shares in lieu of cash dividends is considered a bonus issue under the terms of the Companies Act 2006 and the nominal value of the shares is charged to the share premium account.
There were no changes to the voting rights of any class of shares during 2011, 2012 and 2013, other than issuances in connection
with our various employee option schemes and under the Company’s scrip dividend scheme. The Company did not issue shares for
consideration other than cash during 2011, 2012 and 2013. In addition, at the Company’s general meetings in 2011, 2012 and
2013, shareholders authorised the limited dis-application of section 561 of the Companies Act 2006 to permit the Company to
issue new equity securities for cash without applying shareholders’ statutory pre-emptive rights.