Last checked at 29 Nov 2018 13:00
29 November 2018
ASOS Plc (the 'Company')
Result of AGM
ASOS Plc is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions, as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, were duly passed by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 29 November 2018, as set out in the table below.
RESOLUTIONS | FOR | % FOR | AGAINST | % AGAINST | WITHHELD* |
1. To approve the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 August 2018 | 69,327,790
| 99.95
| 35,942
| 0.05
| 151,215
|
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 August 2018 | 67,451,980
| 97.03
| 2,062,566
| 2.97
| 401
|
3. To elect Adam Crozier as a Director of the Company | 68,927,108
| 99.15
| 587,538
| 0.85
| 301
|
4. To re-elect Nick Beighton as a Director of the Company | 69,386,280
| 99.82
| 128,379
| 0.18
| 288
|
5. To re-elect Rita Clifton as a Director of the Company | 69,407,718
| 99.85
| 106,941
| 0.15
| 288
|
6. To re-elect Ian Dyson as a Director of the Company | 68,912,157
| 99.13
| 602,502
| 0.87
| 288
|
7. To re-elect Hilary Riva as a Director of the Company | 69,136,964
| 99.46
| 377,695
| 0.54
| 288
|
8. To re-elect Nick Robertson as a Director of the Company | 69,187,841
| 99.53
| 326,818
| 0.47
| 288
|
9. To re-appoint PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company | 69,349,135
| 99.76
| 165,353
| 0.24
| 459
|
10. To authorise the Directors to determine the amount of the auditors' remuneration | 69,514,158
| 99.99
| 200
| 0.0003
| 589
|
11. To authorise the Directors to allot Ordinary Shares in the Company | 69,375,966
| 99.80
| 138,401
| 0.20
| 580
|
12. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights** | 68,810,106
| 98.99
| 704,768
| 1.01
| 253
|
13. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares** | 69,021,384
| 99.36
| 447,087
| 0.64
| 46,476
|
14. To authorise the Company to increase the aggregate level of fees payable to non-executive directors to £1m | 69,364,202
| 99.79
| 148,114
| 0.21
| 2,631
|
*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the votes for or against a resolution
** Passed as a special resolution.
Full details of the voting will be available shortly on the Company's website: www.asosplc.com
For further information:
ASOS Plc Nick Beighton, Chief Executive OfficerGreg Feehely, Director of Investor Relations Alison Lygo, Investor Relations ManagerWebsite: www.asosplc.com/investors
| Tel: 020 7756 1000 |
Instinctif Partners Matthew Smallwood / Justine Warren / Tom Berger
| Tel: 020 7457 2020 |
JPMorgan Cazenove Michael Wentworth-Stanley / Caroline Thomlinson/ Bill Hutchings
| Tel: 020 7742 4000 |
Numis Securities Alex Ham / Luke Bordewich / Tom Ballard | Tel: 020 7260 1000 |
Background note
ASOS is a global fashion destination for 20-somethings, selling all the freshest styles complemented by exclusive content, making ASOS.com the hub of a thriving fashion community and giving our audience the confidence to be whoever they want to be. ASOS sells over 87,000 branded and ASOS Brand products through localised app and mobile/desktop web experiences, delivering from fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Europe. ASOS curates a mix of our in-house designed labels, ASOS DESIGN, ASOS EDITION, ASOS WHITE and ASOS 4505, with global and local brands sold through our own channels to deliver a locally relevant offer. Our ground-breaking propositions help bring our amazing products to almost every country in the world and we serve customers globally with increasingly tailored local experiences: relevant languages, payment methods and delivery and return options. You can currently shop ASOS in over 200 markets, in eight languages, using an ever greater number of different payment methods, with hundreds of local deliveries and returns options from pick up and drop off networks to Next-Day Delivery. We aim to give all our global customers a truly frictionless experience.
ASOS's websites attracted 157.2m visits during August 2018 (August 2017: 135.7m) and as at 31 August 2018 had 18.4m active customers1 (31 August 2017: 15.4m), of which 6.0m were located in the UK and 12.4m were located in international territories (31 August 2017: 5.2m in the UK and 10.2m internationally).
1 Defined as having shopped in the last twelve months as at 31 August