VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - May 5, 2016) - TELUS Corporation (TELUS) (TSX:T)(NYSE:TU) announced today that the nominees listed in the information circular dated March 9, 2016 were elected as directors of TELUS. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at TELUS' Annual General Meeting on May 5, 2016 (the Meeting) are set out below.
Each of the following 12 nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of TELUS:
Nominee
Votes For
% Votes For
Votes
Withheld
% Votes
Withheld
R.H. (Dick) Auchinleck
321,013,734
98.43
%
5,117,294
1.57
%
Micheline Bouchard
323,885,853
99.31
%
2,234,416
0.69
%
Raymond T. Chan
323,697,585
99.26
%
2,418,037
0.74
%
Stockwell Day
323,007,520
99.04
%
3,114,988
0.96
%
Lisa De Wilde
325,585,877
99.84
%
533,541
0.16
%
Darren Entwistle
324,526,915
99.51
%
1,610,612
0.49
%
Mary Jo Haddad
325,532,331
99.82
%
590,189
0.18
%
John S. Lacey
306,148,889
93.87
%
19,978,492
6.13
%
William A. MacKinnon
325,683,887
99.86
%
444,503
0.14
%
John Manley
324,529,750
99.51
%
1,601,191
0.49
%
Sarabjit (Sabi) Marwah
325,494,189
99.81
%
611,232
0.19
%
David L. Mowat
325,534,384
99.82
%
591,217
0.18
%
All matters voted on at the Meeting were approved as follows:
Matter
Votes For
% Votes For
Votes
Withheld
/ Against
% Votes
Withheld
/ Against
Appointment of auditors
328,482,066
99.43
%
1,892,374
0.57
%
Reconfirmation of Shareholder Rights Plan
311,992,483
95.66
%
14,138,507
4.34
%
Accept Company's approach to executive compensation
293,180,274
89.90
%
32,948,567
10.10
%
Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Meeting will be published shortly on www.telus.com/agm, and filed with the Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX:T)(NYSE:TU) is Canada's fastest-growing national telecommunications company, with $12.6 billion of annual revenue and 12.4 million subscriber connections, including 8.4 million wireless subscribers, 1.4 million residential network access lines, 1.6 million high-speed Internet subscribers and 1.0 million TELUS TV customers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services, including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment and video, and is Canada's largest healthcare IT provider.
For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.
TELUS Corporation is a Canada-based telecommunications company. The Company provides a wide range of technology solutions, including mobile and fixed voice and data telecommunications services and products, healthcare software and technology solutions, and digitally led customer experiences. Data services include internet protocol, television, hosting, managed information technology and cloud-based services, software, data management and data analytics-driven smart-food chain technologies, and home and business security. It operates through two segments. The technology solutions segment includes network revenues and equipment sales arising from mobile technologies, data revenues, certain healthcare software and technology solutions, voice, and other telecommunications services revenues. The International segment is comprised of digital customer experience and digital-enablement transformation solutions, including artificial intelligence (AI) and content management solutions.