British American Tobacco will hold its 2026 annual general meeting at Hilton London Bankside on 15 April 2026. Shareholders will vote on receiving the 2025 accounts and reports, approving the directors’ remuneration report, reappointing KPMG as auditor and authorising the audit committee to set the auditor’s pay. They will also vote on re-electing Luc Jobin, Tadeu Marroco, Kandy Anand, Karen Guerra, Uta Kemmerich-Keil, Véronique Laury, Darrell Thomas and Serpil Timuray as directors, and electing Matthew Wright as a director. Other proposals include authorising political donations and expenditure up to GBP 100,000, authorising share allotments up to a nominal value of GBP 181.24 million, and approving an extension and amendments to the Sharesave Scheme. Shareholders will also vote on disapplying pre-emption rights for certain cash issues up to GBP 27.19 million, authorising market purchases of up to 217,492,219 shares, and allowing general meetings other than AGMs to be called on 14 days’ notice.

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