TORONTO, May 3, 2013, 2013 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) –TSX: MFI
www.mapleleaffoods.com
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. reports that at its
Annual Meeting of shareholders on May 2, 2013 there were 9 shareholders
voting in person holding 26,387 Voting Common Shares and 431
shareholders voting by proxy holding 117,910,018 Voting Common Shares,
representing in total 440 shareholders holding 117,936,405 Voting
Common Shares being 84.20 % of the total number of Voting Common Shares
outstanding.
Each of the directors listed as nominees in the management proxy
circular dated March 21, 2013 were elected directors of the Corporation
until the next Annual Meeting.
The results of the vote for the election of directors are as follows:
Percentage
Number of of
Percentage Shares Shares
Number of of Withheld Withheld
Names of Shares Shares from from
Directors Voted For* Voted For Voting* Voting
W.G. 115,037,431 97.64% 2,778,033 2.36%
Beattie
G.A. 114,922,453 97.54% 2,893,011 2.46%
Boland
J.L. 116,335,538 98.74% 1,478,926 1.26%
Bragg
D.L. 117,625,925 99.84% 189,539 0.16%
Emerson
J. Gandz 117,061,947 99.36% 753,517 0.64%
C. R. 115,969,136 98.43% 1,846,328 1.57%
Lamoureux
J.S. 105,313,036 89.39% 12,502,428 10.61%
McCain
M.H. 115,856,115 98.34% 1,959,349 1.66%
McCain
D.E. 116,394,778 98.79% 1,420,686 1.21%
McGarry
J.P. 116,393,936 98.79% 1,421,528 1.21%
Olson
* As the vote for each motion was taken by a show of hands, the number
of votes disclosed reflects
only those proxies received by management in advance of the meeting.
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is a leading food company, headquartered in
Toronto, Canada. The Company employs approximately 19,500 people at its
operations across Canada and in the United States, the United Kingdom
and Asia. The Company had sales of $4.9 billion in 2012.
SOURCE: Maple Leaf Foods Inc.
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SOURCE: Maple Leaf Foods Inc.
Maple Leaf Foods Investor Contact: Nick Boland VP, Investor Relations: 416-926-2005 Media Contact 416-926-2020/888-995-5030