Last checked at 28 Jul 2021 13:20
28 July 2021
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 set out in Part II of the Notice of AGM ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 10 June 2021 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 | 199,090,125 | 99.57% | 867,997 | 0.43% | 66,223 |
2. | Re-elect Paul Moody | 197,335,404 | 98.69% | 2,615,125 | 1.31% | 73,816 |
3. | Elect Darcy Willson-Rymer | 199,927,259 | 99.97% | 51,622 | 0.03% | 45,464 |
4. | Re-elect Kristian Lee | 199,887,880 | 99.96% | 76,658 | 0.04% | 39,807 |
5. | Re-elect Octavia Morley | 199,914,364 | 99.96% | 70,174 | 0.04% | 39,807 |
6. | Re-elect David Stead | 197,290,249 | 98.65% | 2,693,039 | 1.35% | 41,057 |
7. | Re-elect Paul McCrudden | 199,918,752 | 99.97% | 64,536 | 0.03% | 41,057 |
8. | Re-elect Roger Whiteside | 199,933,142 | 99.97% | 50,146 | 0.03% | 41,057 |
9. | Re-elect Nathan Lane | 159,827,313 | 99.97% | 52,257 | 0.03% | 40,144,775 |
10. | Approve Remuneration Report | 196,343,511 | 98.19% | 3,618,099 | 1.81% | 62,735 |
11. | Adopt Remuneration Policy | 189,960,737 | 94.98% | 10,033,932 | 5.02% | 29,676 |
12. | Re-appoint auditor | 199,029,908 | 99.52% | 958,935 | 0.48% | 35,502 |
13. | Remuneration of auditor | 199,890,163 | 99.95% | 100,837 | 0.05% | 33,345 |
14. | Authority to allot shares | 199,912,623 | 99.95% | 103,966 | 0.05% | 7,756 |
15. | Authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 199,907,548 | 99.97% | 63,727 | 0.03% | 53,070 |
16. | Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 199,039,612 | 99.53% | 931,663 | 0.47% | 53,070 |
17. | Authority to purchase own shares | 199,099,870 | 99.55% | 895,756 | 0.45% | 28,719 |
18. | Authority to call general meetings on 14 days' notice | 199,543,523 | 99.78% | 447,659 | 0.22% | 33,163 |
19. | Adopt Articles of Association | 199,901,211 | 99.97% | 65,725 | 0.03% | 57,409 |
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 200,024,345 shares representing 58.51% 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 26 July 2021, the Company had 341,866,891 ordinary shares of £0.01 each in issue with voting rights. No shares are held in treasury.
7. Resolutions 1 to 14 (inclusive) were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 19 (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 |
Darcy Willson-Rymer, Chief Executive Officer | |
Kristian Lee, Chief Financial Officer | |
Tulchan Communications James Macey White / Elizabeth Snow
| Tel: +44 (0) 207 353 4200 |