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7 February 2024
ASOS Plc
("ASOS" or the "Company")
Result of Annual General Meeting
ASOS announces that all resolutions were duly passed by means of a poll at the Company's Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held today. The results of the poll vote for each resolution are set out below.
RESOLUTIONS | VOTES FOR | % FOR | VOTES AGAINST | % AGAINST | VOTES WITHHELD* |
1. To approve the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial period ended 3 September 2023 | 87,745,546
| 99.87%
| 115,178
| 0.13%
| 111,993
|
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | 87,741,181
| 99.80%
| 179,055
| 0.20%
| 52,481
|
3. To re-elect Jørgen Lindemann as a Director of the Company | 84,428,745 | 96.57% | 2,997,385 | 3.43% | 546,587 |
4. To re-elect José Antonio Ramos Calamonte as a Director of the Company | 87,818,984 | 99.85% | 129,754 | 0.15% | 23,979 |
5. To re-elect Nick Robertson as a Director of the Company | 87,413,292 | 99.38% | 541,643 | 0.62% | 17,782 |
6. To elect William Barker as a Director of the Company | 87,645,903 | 99.66% | 298,554 | 0.34% | 28,260 |
7. To elect Wei Gao as a Director of the Company | 87,051,956 | 98.98% | 895,185 | 1.02% | 25,576 |
8. To elect Marie Gulin-Merle as a Director of the Company | 87,645,378 | 99.66% | 301,758 | 0.34% | 25,581 |
9. To elect Natasja Laheij as a Director of the Company | 87,645,670 | 99.66% | 301,207 | 0.34% | 25,840 |
10. To elect Jose Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez as a Director of the Company | 87,238,279 | 99.19% | 708,032 | 0.81% | 26,406 |
11. To elect Anna Maria Rugarli as a Director of the Company | 87,140,473 | 99.19% | 707,897 | 0.81% | 124,347 |
12. To re-appoint PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company | 87,710,941 | 99.72% | 245,849 | 0.28% | 15,927 |
13. To authorise the Directors to determine the amount of the auditors' remuneration | 87,820,161 | 99.84% | 141,665 | 0.16% | 10,891 |
14. To authorise the Company to make political donations | 87,691,245 | 99.80% | 171,702 | 0.20% | 109,770 |
15. To authorise the Directors to allot Ordinary Shares in the Company | 84,367,236 | 95.91% | 3,593,405 | 4.09% | 12,076 |
16. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights** | 84,373,767 | 95.93% | 3,578,436 | 4.07% | 20,514 |
17. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of own shares** | 87,733,164 | 99.75% | 222,761 | 0.25% | 16,792 |
18. To authorise that a general meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice** | 87,139,405 | 99.07% | 822,101 | 0.93% | 11,211 |
* 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 resolutions are available in the Notice of Annual General Meeting on the Company's website: www.asosplc.com
As at the date of the AGM, the Company's issued and fully paid share capital consists of 119,334,341 Ordinary Shares with a nominal value of 3.5 pence each ("Ordinary Shares"), with one voting right per share. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Treasury. The total number of voting rights in the Company is therefore 119,334,341.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions (other than those relating to ordinary business) will be submitted to the FCA National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
Board Changes
The Company also announces that, as announced on 22 November 2023, Mai Fyfield retired from the Board at the conclusion of the AGM. Natasja Laheij has been appointed as Senior Independent Director with effect from today.
For further information:
ASOS plc | Tel: 020 7756 1000 |
Holly Cassell, Head of Investor Relations Website: www.asosplc.com/investors | |
Teneo |
Tel: 020 7353 4200 |
Jonathan Sibun / Will Palfreyman | |
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Background note
ASOS is a destination 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 app and mobile/desktop web experience, available in nine languages and in over 200 markets, ASOS customers can shop a curated edit of nearly 50,000 products, sourced from nearly 900 global and local third-party brands alongside a mix of fashion-led own brand labels - including ASOS Design, ASOS Edition, ASOS 4505, Collusion, Reclaimed Vintage, Topshop, Topman, and Miss Selfridge. ASOS aims to give all its customers a truly frictionless experience, with an ever-greater number of different payment methods and hundreds of local deliveries and return options, including Next-Day Delivery and Same-Day Delivery, dispatched from state-of-the-art fulfilment centres in the UK, US, and Germany.