Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6743G

ASOS PLC

26 November 2020

 

26 November 2020

ASOS Plc

Result of AGM

Following the Annual General Meeting held today, 26 November 2020, ASOS Plc (the "Company") 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 2020	84,068,448	99.99	1,588	0.01	251,377
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 August 2020	60,188,026	81.99	13,224,901	18.01	10,908,386
3. To re-elect Adam Crozier as a Director of the Company	79,525,628	94.31	4,795,278	5.69	407
4. To re-elect Nick Beighton as a Director of the Company	83,022,670	99.96	36,776	0.04	1,261,867
5. To re-elect Mat Dunn as a Director of the Company	82,482,250	97.82	1,838,856	2.18	207
6. To re-elect Ian Dyson as a Director of the Company	75,603,414	89.66	8,717,492	10.34	407
7. To re-elect Mai Fyfield as a Director of the Company	81,386,519	96.52	2,934,387	3.48	407
8. To re-elect Karen Geary as a Director of the Company	76,389,811	90.59	7,931,095	9.41	407
9. To re-elect Luke Jensen as a Director of the Company	83,008,495	98.44	1,312,411	1.56	407
10. To re-elect Nick Robertson as a Director of the Company	82,933,609	98.35	1,387,456	1.65	247
11. To elect Eugenia Ulasewicz as a Director of the Company	82,422,442	97.75	1,898,464	2.25	407
12. To re-appoint PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company	84,188,943	99.86	121,025	0.14	11,345
13. To authorise the Directors to determine the amount of the auditors' remuneration	84,305,057	99.99	4,816	0.01	11,440
14. To authorise the Directors to allot Ordinary Shares in the Company	84,048,126	99.68	272,836	0.32	351
15. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights**	84,283,480	99.96	37,091	0.04	742
16. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of own shares**	84,145,115	99.83	139,856	0.17	36,342
17. To authorise the Company to adopt new Articles of Association of the Company**	84,317,387	99.99	3,102	0.01	824
18. To authorise the Company to make political donations	82,892,734	98.43	1,321,503	1.57	107,176

*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 and a recording of the meeting will be available shortly on the Company's website:  www.asosplc.com

For further information:  

ASOS plc  Tel: [phone]

Nick Beighton, Chief Executive Officer

Mat Dunn, Chief Financial Officer

Alison Lygo, Investor Relations

Website:  www.asosplc.com/investors

Headland Consultancy  Tel: [phone]

Susanna Voyle/Stephen Malthouse/ Fay Rajaratnam 

JPMorgan Cazenove (Nominated Advisor)  Tel: [phone]

Bill Hutchings/Christopher Wood

Numis Securities  Tel: [phone]

Alex Ham/Luke Bordewich 

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 850 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' websites attracted 233.4m visits during August 2020 (August 2019: 187.4m) and as at 31 August 2020 had 23.4m active customers ¹  (31 August 2019: 20.3m), of which 7.1m were located in the UK and 16.3m were located in international territories (31 August 2019: 6.4m in the UK and 13.9m internationally).

¹  Defined as having shopped in the last 12 months as at 31 August

 

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