Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6264U

Card Factory PLC

30 July 2020

 

30 July 2020

Card Factory plc

(the "Company" or "Card Factory")

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

Card Factory, the UK's leading specialist retailer of greeting cards, dressings and gifts, announces that all of the resolutions (save for resolution 3, which was withdrawn, as announced on 28 July 2020) set out in Part II of the Notice of AGM ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 19 June 2020 were passed by way of a show of hands at its AGM held earlier today.

Details of the proxy voting instructions, lodged prior to the meeting, are set out below:

	Resolution	Votes for	% of votes cast	Votes against	% of votes cast	Votes withheld
1.	Approve Annual Report	232,745,699	100.00%	32,135	0.01%	935,291
2.	Re-elect Paul Moody	232,214,251	99.67%	808,253	0.33%	820,363
3.	Re-elect Karen Hubbard	Resolution Withdrawn
4.	Re-elect Kristian Lee	233,721,576	99.98%	43,534	0.02%	32,836
5.	Re-elect Octavia Morley	233,614,441	99.93%	229,484	0.09%	26,892
6.	Re-elect David Stead	233,549,755	99.91%	215,142	0.09%	33,049
7.	Re-elect Paul McCrudden	233,603,580	99.93%	159,185	0.07%	35,181
8.	Re-elect Roger Whiteside	233,604,571	99.93%	158,326	0.06%	35,049
9.	Elect Nathan Lane	202,031,107	99.98%	38,722	0.02%	31,728,117
10.	Approve Remuneration Report	229,041,318	98.63%	3,285,212	1.36%	3,140,846
11.	Re-appoint auditor	232,898,943	99.96%	86,019	0.04%	812,984
12.	Remuneration of auditor	233,685,127	99.96%	84,504	0.03%	28,315
13.	Authority to allot shares	233,671,275	99.96%	86,394	0.04%	40,277
14.	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	230,622,010	98.66%	3,133,084	1.28%	42,965
15.	Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	232,934,701	99.65%	848,901	0.35%	42,965
16.	Authority to purchase own shares	232,959,952	99.65%	838,114	0.34%	28,501
17.	Authority to call general meetings on 14 days' notice	231,492,240	99.03%	2,272,309	0.93%	31,631

Notes:

1.  Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "Votes for" total.

2.  "Votes withheld" are not votes in law and do not count in the number of votes counted for or against a resolution.

3.  Valid proxy appointments were made in respect of 244,684,075 shares representing 71.62% of the issued share capital

4.  In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, the full text of the special business resolutions passed will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM .

5.  A copy of this announcement will shortly be available on the Company's investor relations website at www.cardfactoryinvestors.com

6.  As at 28 July 2020, the Company had 341,626,396 ordinary shares of £0.01 each in issue with voting rights. No shares are held in treasury.

7.  Resolutions 1, 2 and 4 to 13 (inclusive) were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 to 17 (inclusive) were passed as special resolutions.

8.  As detailed in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, shareholders were invited to submit to the Company any questions they would otherwise have asked at the AGM. Subject to any regulatory restrictions, the Board will publish a summary of responses to relevant questions received on the Card Factory investor website at  www.cardfactoryinvestors.com shortly.  

Name of authorised Company official responsible for making this notification:

Ciaran Stone, Company Secretary

01924 839150

Enquiries:
Card Factory Plc	Tel: [phone]
Paul Moody, Executive Chairman
Kristian Lee, Chief Financial Officer
Tulchan Communications  James Macey White / Elizabeth Snow / Amber Ahluwalia	Tel: [phone]

 

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