Result of AGM

RNS Number : 8989U

ASOS PLC

27 November 2019

 

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: [phone]

Nick Beighton, Chief Executive

Alison Lygo, Head of Investor Relations

Website: www.asosplc.com/investors

Headland Consultancy                                                            Tel: [phone]

Susanna Voyle/Stephen Malthouse/Lindsay Dunford                     

JPMorgan Cazenove (Nominated Advisor)                           Tel: [phone]

Michael Wentworth-Stanley/Bill Hutchings

Numis Securities                                                                     Tel: [phone]

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

 

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