Shaw Announces AGM Vote Results

CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shaw Communications Inc. (“Shaw” or, the “Corporation”) announced that, at its annual meeting of shareholders held earlier today, the resolutions proposed in Shaw’s management proxy circular were adopted.   

The detailed results from the annual shareholder meeting are as follows.

1.         Election of each of the following fifteen nominees as directors of the Corporation (by ballot):

	Votes For				Votes Withheld
	#		%		#		%
Peter J. Bissonnette	19,913,899		99.98		4,067		0.02
Adrian I. Burns	19,913,899		99.98		4,067		0.02
Christy Clark	19,917,866		>99.99		100		<0.01
Richard R. Green	19,913,927		99.98		4,039		0.02
Gregg Keating	19,917,938		>99.99		28		<0.01
Michael W. O’Brien	19,913,899		99.98		4,067		0.02
Paul K. Pew	19,917,938		>99.99		28		<0.01
Jeffrey C. Royer	19,917,938		>99.99		28		<0.01
Bradley S. Shaw	19,917,937		>99.99		29		<0.01
JR Shaw	19,913,898		99.98		4,068		0.02
Mike Sievert	19,917,938		>99.99		28		<0.01
JC Sparkman	19,913,927		99.98		4,039		0.02
Carl E. Vogel	19,917,938		>99.99		28		<0.01
Sheila C. Weatherill	19,913,927		99.98		4,039		0.02
Willard H. Yuill	19,913,927		99.98		4,039		0.02

2.         Appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors of the Corporation (by show of hands – proxy result shown):

	Votes For				Votes Withheld
	#		%		#		%
	19,874,745		>99.99		101		<0.01

3.         Approval of the Corporation’s amended and restated RSU/PSU Plan (by show of hands – proxy result shown):

	Votes For				Votes Against
	#		%		#		%
	19,869,626		99.97		5,220		0.03

4.         Approval of the amendment to the Corporation’s Stock Option Plan, to increase the total number of Class B Non-Voting Participating Shares issuable and reserved for issuance under the plan (by show of hands – proxy result shown):

	Votes For				Votes Against
	#		%		#		%
	19,869,053		99.97		5,793		0.03

5.         Confirm the amended and restated By-Law 1A of the Corporation (by show of hands – proxy result shown):

	Votes For				Votes Against
	#		%		#		%
	19,873,093		99.99		1,753		0.01

About Shaw Communications Inc.

Shaw Communications Inc. is a leading Canadian connectivity company. The Wireline division consists of Consumer and Business services. Consumer serves residential customers with broadband Internet, Shaw Go WiFi, video and digital phone. Business provides business customers with Internet, data, WiFi, digital phone and video services. The Wireless division provides wireless voice and LTE data services through an expanding and improving mobile wireless network infrastructure.  

Shaw is traded on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges and is included in the S&P/TSX 60 Index (Symbol: TSX - SJR.B, SJR.PR.A, SJR.PR.B, NYSE – SJR, and TSXV – SJR.A). For more information, please visit www.shaw.ca

For further information, please contact:
Shaw Investor Relations investor.relations@sjrb.ca