AGM Statement
Burberry Group PLC
12 July 2007
Burberry Group plc (the 'Company') announces the following results of the poll
taken at its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held earlier today:
For Against
% of Votes % of Votes
Cast Cast
(excluding (excluding
Votes Votes
Resolution (see Withheld) Withheld)
Notes
below) Number of Votes Number of Total Number of
Votes Votes
1 327,988,368 99.94 184,896 0.06 328,173,264
2 305,575,943 97.05 9,284,058 2.95 314,860,001
3 328,175,564 100.00 850 0.00 328,176,414
4 327,943,755 99.93 213,434 0.07 328,157,189
5 324,143,674 99.23 2,499,641 0.77 326,643,315
6 323,685,863 98.86 3,723,308 1.14 327,409,171
7 326,372,025 99.45 1,795,941 0.55 328,167,966
8 319,389,307 97.37 8,635,608 2.63 328,024,915
9 319,391,026 97.35 8,687,851 2.65 328,078,877
10 325,311,794 99.13 2,847,416 0.87 328,159,210
11 318,283,217 96.99 9,871,372 3.01 328,154,589
12 308,406,923 93.99 19,713,896 6.01 328,120,819
13 324,856,272 99.00 3,264,154 1.00 328,120,426
14 308,255,640 93.95 19,857,497 6.05 328,113,137
15 318,854,059 97.31 8,826,146 2.69 327,680,205
16 328,040,085 99.98 77,266 0.02 328,117,351
Notes
The following are the resolutions voted on at the Company's AGM.
Resolution 1 To receive the Company's accounts for the year ended 31 March 2007 and the reports of
the directors and auditors thereon.
Resolution 2 To approve the Report on directors' Remuneration for the year ended 31 March 2007.
Resolution 3 To declare a final dividend.
Resolution 4 To elect Ian Carter as a Director of the Company.
Resolution 5 To re-elect John Peace as a Director of the Company.
Resolution 6 To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company.
Resolution 7 To authorise the Board to determine the auditors' remuneration.
Resolution 8 To authorise political donations and expenditure by the Company.
Resolution 9 To authorise political donations and expenditure by Burberry Limited.
Resolution 10 To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares (Special Resolution).
Resolution 11 To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares.
Resolution 12 To renew the Directors' Section 89 Authority in connection with a Rights lssue
(Special Resolution).
Resolution 13 To renew the Directors' Section 89 Authority otherwise than in connection with a
Rights lssue (Special Resolution).
Resolution 14 To extend the directors' Section 89 Authority to cover the sale of the Company's
shares held by it as treasury shares for cash free of pre-emption rights (Special
Resolution).
Resolution 15 To approve the Burberry Exceptional Performance Share Plan.
Resolution 16 To amend the Company's Articles of Association (Special Resolution).
The full text of resolutions 8 through 16 constituting Special Business have
been submitted to the FSA for publication through the Document Viewing Facility
located at:
Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS
Tel. 020 7066 1000
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