Last checked at 27 Nov 2019 15:56
27 November 2019
ASOS Plc
Result of AGM
Following the Annual General Meeting held today, ASOS Plc announces the result of the poll vote for each resolution as follows:
RESOLUTIONS | FOR | % FOR | AGAINST | % AGAINST | WITHHELD* |
1. To approve the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 August 2019 | 74,082,741 | 99.99 | 4 | 0.01 | 134,580 |
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 August 2019 | 63,419,733 | 85.45 | 10,795,497 | 14.55 | 2,095 |
3. To re-elect Adam Crozier as a Director of the Company | 73,415,061 | 98.92 | 800,565 | 1.08 | 1,699 |
4. To re-elect Nick Beighton as a Director of the Company | 74,200,440 | 99.98 | 15,186 | 0.02 | 1,699 |
5. To elect Mat Dunn as a Director of the Company | 73,942,198 | 99.63 | 273,411 | 0.37 | 1,716 |
6. To re-elect Rita Clifton as a Director of the Company | 73,931,365 | 99.62 | 284,261 | 0.38 | 1,699 |
7. To re-elect Ian Dyson as a Director of the Company | 73,886,507 | 99.56 | 329,119 | 0.44 | 1,699 |
8. To elect Mai Fyfield as a Director of the Company | 74,203,786 | 99.98 | 11,823 | 0.02 | 1,716 |
9. To elect Karen Geary as a Director of the Company | 74,035,624 | 99.76 | 179,985 | 0.24 | 1,716 |
10. To elect Luke Jensen as a Director of the Company | 74,203,749 | 99.98 | 11,860 | 0.02 | 1,716 |
11. To re-elect Hilary Riva as a Director of the Company | 73,931,480 | 99.62 | 284,146 | 0.38 | 1,699 |
12. To re-elect Nick Robertson as a Director of the Company | 74,200,440 | 99.98 | 15,186 | 0.02 | 1,699 |
13. To re-appoint PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company | 74,090,890 | 99.83 | 126,414 | 0.17 | 21 |
14. To authorise the Directors to determine the amount of the auditors' remuneration | 74,211,953 | 99.99 | 3,366 | 0.01 | 2,006 |
15. To authorise the Directors to allot Ordinary Shares in the Company | 73,790,265 | 99.43 | 425,054 | 0.57 | 2,006 |
16. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights** | 73,967,037 | 99.67 | 248,265 | 0.33 | 2,023 |
17. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of own shares** | 74,071,891 | 99.81 | 142,869 | 0.19 | 2,565 |
18. To authorise the Company to make political donations | 72,686,429 | 98.32 | 1,238,294 | 1.68 | 292,602 |
*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 Tel: 020 7756 1000
Nick Beighton, Chief Executive
Alison Lygo, Head of Investor Relations
Website: www.asosplc.com/investors
Headland Consultancy Tel: 020 3805 4822
Susanna Voyle/Stephen Malthouse/Lindsay Dunford
JPMorgan Cazenove (Nominated Advisor) Tel: 020 7742 4000
Michael Wentworth-Stanley/Bill Hutchings
Numis Securities Tel: 020 7260 1000
Alex Ham/Luke Bordewich/Tom Ballard
Background note
ASOS is an online retailer for fashion-loving 20-somethings around the world, with a purpose to give its customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be. Through its market-leading app and mobile/desktop web experience, available in ten languages and in over 200 markets, ASOS customers can shop a curated edit of 85,000 products, sourced from 800 of the best global and local third-party brands and its mix of fashion-led in-house labels - ASOS Design, ASOS Edition, ASOS 4505 and Collusion. ASOS aims to give all of its customers a truly frictionless experience, with an ever-greater number of different payment methods and hundreds of local deliveries and returns options, including Next-Day and Same-Day Delivery, dispatched from state-of-the-art fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Germany.
ASOS's websites attracted 187.4m visits during August 2019 (August 2018: 157.2m) and as at 31 August 2019 had 20.3m active customers1 (31 August 2018: 18.4m), of which 6.4m were located in the UK and 13.9m were located in international territories (31 August 2018: 6.0m in the UK and 12.4m internationally).
1 Defined as having shopped in the last twelve months as at 31 August