More than 94 per cent of votes cast at Scentre Group’s AGM backed former Lendlease boss Steve McCann’s appointment to the board of the Westfield mall owner.
Protest at the choice of former Lendlease and Crown Resorts CEO Steve McCann as a new Scentre Group board member fizzled out at the mall giant’s annual general meeting on Wednesday, as over 94 per cent of shareholders voted in favour of his appointment.
“We’re seeing very substantial growth in [sales] turnover of our retail partners and no sign of it slowing down at the moment,” Mr Schwartz said. The angst stemmed primarily from Lendlease’s move into civil engineering projects under McCann’s watch which resulted inand a sharemarket plunge that wiped $2 billion off the company’s market value.
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