REG - Card Factory PLC - Result of AGM
RNS Number : 6264UCard Factory PLC30 July 202030 July 2020
Card Factory plc
(the "Company" or "Card Factory")
Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
Card Factory, the UK's leading specialist retailer of greeting cards, dressings and gifts, announces that all of the resolutions (save for resolution 3, which was withdrawn, as announced on 28 July 2020) set out in Part II of the Notice of AGM ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 19 June 2020 were passed by way of a show of hands at its AGM held earlier today.
Details of the proxy voting instructions, lodged prior to the meeting, are set out below:
Resolution
Votes for
% of
votes
cast
Votes against
% of
votes cast
Votes withheld
1.
Approve
Annual Report
232,745,699
100.00%
32,135
0.01%
935,291
2.
Re-elect
Paul Moody
232,214,251
99.67%
808,253
0.33%
820,363
3.
Re-elect Karen Hubbard
Resolution Withdrawn
4.
Re-elect
Kristian Lee
233,721,576
99.98%
43,534
0.02%
32,836
5.
Re-elect
Octavia Morley
233,614,441
99.93%
229,484
0.09%
26,892
6.
Re-elect
David Stead
233,549,755
99.91%
215,142
0.09%
33,049
7.
Re-elect
Paul McCrudden
233,603,580
99.93%
159,185
0.07%
35,181
8.
Re-elect
Roger Whiteside
233,604,571
99.93%
158,326
0.06%
35,049
9.
Elect Nathan Lane
202,031,107
99.98%
38,722
0.02%
31,728,117
10.
Approve
Remuneration Report
229,041,318
98.63%
3,285,212
1.36%
3,140,846
11.
Re-appoint auditor
232,898,943
99.96%
86,019
0.04%
812,984
12.
Remuneration of auditor
233,685,127
99.96%
84,504
0.03%
28,315
13.
Authority to allot shares
233,671,275
99.96%
86,394
0.04%
40,277
14.
Authority to disapply pre-emption rights
230,622,010
98.66%
3,133,084
1.28%
42,965
15.
Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights
232,934,701
99.65%
848,901
0.35%
42,965
16.
Authority to purchase own shares
232,959,952
99.65%
838,114
0.34%
28,501
17.
Authority to call general meetings on 14 days' notice
231,492,240
99.03%
2,272,309
0.93%
31,631
Notes:
1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "Votes for" total.
2. "Votes withheld" are not votes in law and do not count in the number of votes counted for or against a resolution.
3. Valid proxy appointments were made in respect of 244,684,075 shares representing 71.62% of the issued share capital
4. In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, the full text of the special business resolutions passed will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
5. A copy of this announcement will shortly be available on the Company's investor relations website at www.cardfactoryinvestors.com
6. As at 28 July 2020, the Company had 341,626,396 ordinary shares of £0.01 each in issue with voting rights. No shares are held in treasury.
7. Resolutions 1, 2 and 4 to 13 (inclusive) were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 to 17 (inclusive) were passed as special resolutions.
8. As detailed in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, shareholders were invited to submit to the Company any questions they would otherwise have asked at the AGM. Subject to any regulatory restrictions, the Board will publish a summary of responses to relevant questions received on the Card Factory investor website at www.cardfactoryinvestors.com shortly.
Name of authorised Company official responsible for making this notification:
Ciaran Stone, Company Secretary
01924 839150
Enquiries:
Card Factory Plc
Tel: 01924 839150
Paul Moody, Executive Chairman
Kristian Lee, Chief Financial Officer
Tulchan Communications
James Macey White / Elizabeth Snow / Amber Ahluwalia
Tel: +44 (0) 207 353 4200
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