Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3310Z

Burberry Group PLC

17 July 2008

 



Burberry Group plc (the 'Company') announces the following results of the poll taken at its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held earlier today:

		For			Against
Resolution (see Notes below)		Number of Votes	% of Votes Cast (excluding Votes Withheld)		Number of  Votes	% of Votes Cast (excluding Votes Withheld)		Total Number of Votes
1		285,328,895	99.94		183,779	0.06		285,512,674
2		280,840,910	98.37		4,661,327	1.63		285,502,237
3		285,542,488	100.00		542	0.00		285,543,030
4		284,976,144	99.80		572,237	0.20		285,548,381
5		285,003,607	99.81		530,396	0.19		285,534,003
6		282,504,069	98.93		3,050,270	1.07		285,554,339
7		284,438,654	99.61		1,100,857	0.39		285,539,511
8		270,678,869	97.22		7,743,363	2.78		278,422,232
9		285,473,065	99.98		49,834	0.02		285,522,899
10		275,691,020	99.20		2,209,802	0.80		277,900,822
11		278,348,669	97.48		7,185,471	2.52		285,534,140
12		285,501,937	100.00		6,815	0.00		285,508,752
13		284,865,083	99.77		642,415	0.23		285,507,498

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 2008 and the reports of the directors and auditors thereon.
Resolution 2	To approve the Report on Directors' Remuneration for the year ended 31 March 2008.
Resolution 3	To declare a final dividend.
Resolution 4	To re-elect Stacey Cartwright as a Director of the Company.
Resolution 5	To re-elect Philip Bowman 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, and all companies that are its subsidiaries.
Resolution 9	To authorise the Company to purchase its own ordinary shares (Special Resolution).
Resolution 10	To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares.
Resolution 11	To renew the Directors' authority to disapply pre-emption rights (Special Resolution).
Resolution 12	To cancel the unissued 1,600,000,000 preference shares of 0.05p each in the authorised share capital of the Company (Special Resolution).
Resolution 13	To adopt new Articles of Association of the Company (Special Resolution).

The full text of resolutions 8 through 13 constituting Special Business will shortly be 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

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