Annual General Meeting 2025
Voting Instruction Form
SRN
PLEASE REFER TO THE NOTES BELOW AND OVERLEAF BEFORE COMPLETING THIS FORM
I/We
hereby request that my/our votes be cast on the resolutions to be proposed at the Annual General Meeting of British American Tobacco p.l.c. (the 'Company') to be held on Wednesday 16 April 2025 or any adjournment thereof (the 'Meeting') as follows:-
Notes to the Voting Instruction Form
- Please indicate with an 'X' in the appropriate box how your votes should be cast and sign in the space provided. Votes will not be cast in respect of your holding on any resolution for which you have not given a specific instruction as to how to vote.
- Please note that a 'Vote withheld' has no legal effect and will count neither for nor against a resolution.
- Any alteration or correction to the voting instruction form must be initialled by the signatory.
- In the case of joint holders, any one holder may sign the voting instruction form.
- The name and address of your CSDP or broker is shown on the share statement sent to you confirming your shareholding.
Ordinary resolutions: numbers 1 to 18
Special resolutions: numbers 19 to 21
Resolution | For |
- Receipt of the 2024 Annual Report and Accounts
- Approval of the Directors' remuneration policy
- Approval of the 2024 Directors' remuneration report
- Re-appointmentof KPMG as the Company's auditors
- Authority for the Audit Committee to agree the Auditors' remuneration
6 Re-election of Luc Jobin as a Director (N)
7 Re-election of Tadeu Marroco as a Director
8 Re-election of Kandy Anand as
a Director (N, R)
9 Re-election of Karen Guerra as
a Director (N, R)
- Re-electionof Holly Keller Koeppel as a Director (A, N)
- Re-electionof Véronique Laury as
a Director (A, N)
Vote | Vote | ||
Against withheld | Resolution | For | Against withheld |
- Re-electionof Darrell Thomas as a Director (A, N)
- Re-electionof Serpil Timuray as a Director (N, R)
14 Election of Soraya Benchikh as a Director
15 Election of Uta Kemmerich-Keil as
a Director (A, N)
16 Authority to make donations to political
organisations and to incur political expenditure
17 Authority for the Directors to allot shares
18 To approve the Performance Share Plan (PSP) and to authorise the Directors to establish further plans based on the PSP
19 Authority for the Directors to disapply
statutory pre-emption rights
20 Authority for the Company to purchase its
own shares
21 Notice period for General Meetings
Board Committee memberships: (A) Audit (N) Nominations (R) Remuneration
Signature | Date | Shareholder and CSDP Reference | Initials and |
Number | surnames of joint | ||
holders if any |
The ordinary shares of British American Tobacco p.l.c. have a premium listing on the London Stock Exchange (Share Code: BATS; ISIN: GB0002875804)
and a secondary listing on the JSE Limited (Share Code: BTI).
Notification of Availability of Shareholder Documents
The British American Tobacco p.l.c. Annual Report and Form 20-F 2024 is available online at www.bat.com/annualreport, together with the Combined Performance and ESG Summary 2024.
The British American Tobacco p.l.c. Notice of Annual General Meeting 2025 and its appendices are available online at www.bat.com/AGM. Alternatively, you may request a paper copy from Computershare Investor Services Proprietary Limited by calling 0861 100 634 or +27 11 870 8216 or emailing web.queries@computershare.co.za. You are advised to read the Notice of Meeting (and appendices) in its entirety.
Please note that this notification is not a full summary of those documents and should not be regarded as a substitute for reading them.
Electronic Communications
If you would prefer to receive an email notification when shareholder communications become available online, you can submit your email address to ecomms@computershare.co.za. By providing your email address you will no longer receive paper copies of shareholder communications that are available electronically. Instead, you will receive an email advising you when and how to access documents online.
Additional notes
Voting instructions in respect of the Annual General Meeting of British American Tobacco p.l.c. (the 'Company') to be held at Hilton London Bankside, 2-8 Great Suffolk Street, London, SE1 0UG on Wednesday 16 April 2025 at 11.30am (UK time).
Action required
- The resolutions proposed by the Board of Directors of the Company to be voted on are set out overleaf.
- Holders of dematerialised ordinary shares who appointed Computershare Limited as their Central Securities Depositary Participant ('CSDP') with the instruction that their ordinary shares are to be registered in the electronic sub-register of members in their own names must complete the voting instruction form and return it to Computershare Investor Services Proprietary Limited, Rosebank Towers, 15 Biermann Avenue, Rosebank 2196 (Private Bag X9000, Saxonwold, 2132) before 12:30pm (South Africa time) on Monday 14 April 2025. A completed voting instruction form may also be faxed to Computershare Investor Services Proprietary Limited on +27 11 688 5238 or emailed to proxy@computershare.co.za. Holders of dematerialised ordinary shares who appointed Computershare Limited as their CSDP with the instruction that their ordinary shares are to be registered in the electronic sub-register of members in their own names may make a proxy appointment via the internet at www.eproxyappointment.com. Full details of the procedure are given on that website and your Control Number, Shareholder Reference Number (SRN) and PIN can be found below. To be valid, electronic proxy appointments must be received by 12:30pm (South Africa time) on Monday 14 April 2025.
- All other dematerialised shareholders should forward the completed voting instruction form or otherwise provide their voting instructions to their CSDP or broker (see Note (e) overleaf) through whom their dematerialised ordinary shares are held. Shareholders are advised to check that this voting form is consistent with the custody agreement concluded between them and their CSDP or broker.
If you wish to attend in person at the Meeting, you should contact your CSDP or broker to obtain a letter of representation to do so. Voting instructions and requests for letters of representation must be submitted by the CSDPs and brokers to STRATE by 12:30pm (South Africa time) on Monday 14 April 2025 so that they may be collated and verified by STRATE prior to the Meeting. You should therefore submit your voting instruction form or your request for a letter of representation to your CSDP or broker within the time period required by your CSDP or broker or as stipulated in the custody agreement between you and your CSDP or broker.
4 If you received more than one communication from us, then you may have more than one shareholding registered in your name. To merge your shareholdings, please contact Computershare using the details on this form, quoting the relevant Shareholder Reference Numbers (SRNs).
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