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NEXT plc (the "Company")
Results of 2022 Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
The Board of NEXT plc is pleased to announce that at the AGM of NEXT shareholders held on 19 May 2022 all resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting contained in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 29 January 2022 were passed.
All resolutions were put to the meeting and approved on a poll and results are detailed below.
The total number of shares on the register at 6.30 pm on 17 May 2022, being those eligible to be voted on at the AGM, was 131,025,480.
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| For | Against | TOTAL VOTES CAST | % of shares on register at 6.30pm 17 May 2022 | Votes withheld1 | ||
Resolution | Special / Ordinary | No. of Votes | % | No. of Votes | % | No. of Votes | % | No. of Votes |
1 To receive and adopt the accounts and reports of the directors and auditor | Ordinary | 98,961,891 | 99.65 | 346,866 | 0.35 | 99,308,757 | 75.79% | 816,554 |
2 To approve the Remuneration Report | Ordinary | 92,593,169 | 92.49 | 7,515,888 | 7.51 | 100,109,057 | 76.40% | 16,254 |
3 To declare a dividend of 127 pence per ordinary share | Ordinary | 100,074,018 | 99.95 | 48,144 | 0.05 | 100,122,162 | 76.41% | 3,149 |
4 To elect Soumen Das as a director | Ordinary | 99,834,914 | 99.72 | 283,679 | 0.28 | 100,118,593 | 76.41% | 6,718 |
5 To re-elect Jonathan Bewes as a director | Ordinary | 96,783,163 | 96.67 | 3,336,117 | 3.33 | 100,119,280 | 76.41% | 6,031 |
6 To re-elect Tom Hall as a director | Ordinary | 98,467,849 | 98.35 | 1,650,697 | 1.65 | 100,118,546 | 76.41% | 6,765 |
7 To re-elect Tristia Harrison as a director | Ordinary | 99,038,709 | 98.92 | 1,080,470 | 1.08 | 100,119,179 | 76.41% | 6,132 |
8 To re-elect Amanda James as a director | Ordinary | 99,557,729 | 99.44 | 561,937 | 0.56 | 100,119,666 | 76.41% | 5,645 |
9 To re-elect Richard Papp as a director | Ordinary | 99,626,744 | 99.51 | 492,536 | 0.49 | 100,119,280 | 76.41% | 6,031 |
10 To re-elect Michael Roney as a director | Ordinary | 84,483,165 | 87.63 | 11,930,924 | 12.37 | 96,414,089 | 73.58% | 3,711,222 |
11 To re-elect Jane Shields as a director | Ordinary | 99,633,715 | 99.52 | 485,531 | 0.48 | 100,119,246 | 76.41% | 6,065 |
12 To re-elect Dame Dianne Thompson as a director | Ordinary | 99,024,746 | 98.91 | 1,091,206 | 1.09 | 100,115,952 | 76.41% | 9,359 |
13 To re-elect Lord Wolfson as a director | Ordinary | 99,618,011 | 99.50 | 502,954 | 0.50 | 100,120,965 | 76.41% | 4,346 |
14 To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor | Ordinary | 99,325,866 | 99.21 | 795,234 | 0.79 | 100,121,100 | 76.41% | 4,211 |
15 To authorise the Audit Committee to set the auditor's remuneration | Ordinary | 100,112,121 | 99.99 | 9,643 | 0.01 | 100,121,764 | 76.41% | 3,547 |
16 Directors' authority to allot shares | Ordinary | 96,821,138 | 96.71 | 3,298,258 | 3.29 | 100,119,396 | 76.41% | 5,915 |
17 General authority to disapply pre-emption rights | Special | 99,754,897 | 99.86 | 136,226 | 0.14 | 99,891,123 | 76.24% | 234,188 |
18 Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights | Special | 97,000,117 | 97.11 | 2,890,480 | 2.89 | 99,890,597 | 76.24% | 234,714 |
19 Authority for on-market purchase of own shares | Special | 98,969,681 | 98.87 | 1,130,503 | 1.13 | 100,100,184 | 76.40% | 25,127 |
202 Authority for off-market purchases of own shares | 98,830,735 | 98.73 | 1,268,311 | 1.27 | 100,099,046 | 76.40% | 26,265 | |
Less votes disregarded under the provisions of the Companies Act 2006 | Special | (3,000,000) | (3,000,000) | |||||
Resolution 20 total | 95,830,735 | 98.69 | 1,268,311 | 1.31 | 97,099,046.00 | 74.10% | 26,265 | |
21 Notice period of general meetings | Special | 95,536,437 | 95.42 | 4,584,257 | 4.58 | 100,120,694 | 76.41% | 4,617 |
Note1: The 'Vote Withheld' option is provided to enable the shareholder to abstain on any resolution. It is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes for and against a resolution.
Note2: The total maximum number of Ordinary Shares which may be purchased by NEXT for cancellation pursuant to such contingent purchase contracts is 3.0 million. Next has disregarded 3.0 million votes from both the total number of votes cast in favour of the resolution and the total votes cast so that the voting of those shares did not affect the result of the poll.
In accordance with LR 9.6.2 and 9.2.6ER(1), a copy of resolutions passed as special business will be submitted as soon as practicable to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available shortly for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.