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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