Last checked at 22 Jun 2023 15:03
22 June 2023
Card Factory plc
(the "Company" or "cardfactory")
Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
cardfactory, the UK's leading specialist retailer of greeting cards, gifts and celebration essentials, announces that all of the resolutions set out in Part II of the Notice of AGM ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 19 May 2023 were passed on a poll at the annual general meeting held today.
Details of the aggregate poll votes submitted on the resolutions are set out below:
Resolution |
Votes for |
% of votes cast
|
Votes against |
% of votes cast |
Votes withheld | |
1. | Approve the Annual Report | 220,609,650 | 99.99% | 20,908 | 0.01% | 370,811 |
2. | Re-elect Paul Moody | 177,047,065 | 92.49% | 14,375,661 | 7.51% | 29,576,393 |
3. | Re-elect Darcy Willson-Rymer | 220,678,458 | 99.86% | 305,220 | 0.14% | 15,441 |
4. | Elect Matthias Seeger | 220,669,080 | 99.86% | 312,598 | 0.14% | 17,441 |
5. | Re-elect Roger Whiteside | 216,225,887 | 97.85% | 4,745,979 | 2.15% | 27,253 |
6. | Re-elect Nathan Lane | 177,531,572 | 99.81% | 340,472 | 0.19% | 43,127,075 |
7. | Re-elect Robert McWilliam | 216,262,542 | 97.87% | 4,707,574 | 2.13% | 29,003 |
8. | Elect Indira Thambiah | 220,828,253 | 99.93% | 144,863 | 0.07% | 26,003 |
9. | Approve the Remuneration Report | 220,865,634 | 99.94% | 126,084 | 0.06% | 9,651 |
10. | Appoint auditor | 220,777,992 | 99.91% | 209,010 | 0.09% | 14,367 |
11. | Remuneration of auditor | 220,735,941 | 99.89% | 253,279 | 0.11% | 12,149 |
12. | Authority to allot shares | 220,621,807 | 99.83% | 377,011 | 0.17% | 2,551 |
13. | Authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 220,432,890 | 99.81% | 428,977 | 0.19% | 139,502 |
14. | Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 220,427,890 | 99.80% | 435,227 | 0.20% | 138,252 |
15. | Authority to purchase own shares | 220,953,701 | 99.98% | 44,567 | 0.02% | 3,101 |
16. | Authority to call general meetings on 14 days' notice | 220,354,695 | 99.71% | 641,514 | 0.29% | 2,910 |
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 poll cards were made in respect of 221,001,659 shares representing 64.48% 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 22 June 2023, the Company had 342,757,296 ordinary shares of £0.01 each in issue with voting rights. No shares are held in treasury.
7. Resolutions 1 to 12 (inclusive) were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to 16 (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. No such questions were submitted.
Name of authorised Company official responsible for making this notification:
Ciaran Stone, Company Secretary
01924 839150
Enquiries
Card Factory plc via Teneo (below)
Darcy Willson-Rymer, Chief Executive Officer
Matthias Seeger, Chief Financial Officer
Teneo +44 (0) 207 353 4200
James Macey White / Jo Blackshaw cardfactory@teneo.com