Result of AGM

RNS Number : 2222N

Next PLC

14 May 2015

 



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NEXT PLC

Results of 2015 Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

The Board of Next plc is pleased to announce that at the AGM of Next shareholders held on 14 May 2015 all resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting contained in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 24 January 2015 were passed. All resolutions were put to the meeting and approved on a poll and results are detailed below.

The total number of shares on the register at 6pm on 12 May 2015, being those eligible to be voted on at the AGM, was 152,873,556.

		For		Against		TOTAL VOTES CAST	% of shares on register at 6pm 12 May 2015	Votes withheld1
Resolution	Special / Ordinary	No. of Votes	%	No. of Votes	%	No. of Votes	%	No. of Votes
1. To receive and adopt the accounts and reports of the directors and auditor	Ordinary	102,118,490	99.23	791,527	0.77	102,910,017	67.32	223,787
2. To approve the Remuneration Report	Ordinary	99,473,354	98.22	1,801,516	1.78	101,274,870	66.25	1,858,931
3. To declare a final dividend of 100p per share	Ordinary	102,915,817	100.00	731	0.00	102,916,548	67.32	217,256
4. To re-elect John Barton as a director	Ordinary	99,048,006	96.74	3,340,826	3.26	102,388,832	66.98	744,970
5. To re-elect Steve Barber as a director	Ordinary	102,573,942	99.67	340,946	0.33	102,914,888	67.32	218,916
6. To re-elect Caroline Goodall as a director	Ordinary	102,728,098	99.82	186,096	0.18	102,914,194	67.32	219,610
7. To elect Amanda James as a director	Ordinary	102,550,411	99.65	360,619	0.35	102,911,030	67.32	222,774
8. To re-elect Michael Law as a director	Ordinary	102,275,839	99.38	638,267	0.62	102,914,106	67.32	219,698
9. To re-elect Francis Salway as a director	Ordinary	102,727,172	99.82	187,274	0.18	102,914,446	67.32	219,358
10. To re-elect Jane Shields as a director	Ordinary	102,229,421	99.34	682,721	0.66	102,912,142	67.32	221,662
11. To elect Dame Dianne Thompson as a director	Ordinary	102,886,318	99.98	24,660	0.02	102,910,978	67.32	222,826
12. To re-elect Lord Wolfson as a director	Ordinary	102,595,561	99.69	319,242	0.31	102,914,803	67.32	219,001
13. To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditor and authorise the directors to set their remuneration	Ordinary	100,599,474	97.77	2,293,852	2.23	102,893,326	67.31	240,476
14. To authorise the NEXT Long Term Incentive Plan	Ordinary	99,820,341	97.04	3,047,184	2.96	102,867,525	67.29	266,277
15. Directors' authority to allot shares	Ordinary	100,412,602	97.77	2,286,434	2.23	102,699,036	67.18	434,768
16. Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	Special	102,401,962	99.50	510,189	0.50	102,912,151	67.32	221,653
17. Authority for on-market purchase of own shares	Special	101,868,762	98.98	1,046,573	1.02	102,915,335	67.32	218,469
182. Authority to enter into Programme Agreements with each of Goldman Sachs, UBS AG, Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC Bank plc and Barclays Bank plc Less votes disregarded under the provisions of the Companies Act 2006 Resolution 18 total	Special	100,566,570 (3,000,000)² 97,566,570	97.74 97.68	2,320,245 2,320,245	2.26 2.26	102,886,815 (3,000,000)² 99,886,815	67.30 65.34	246,989 246,989
19. To authorise the calling of general meeting (other than annual general meetings) on 14 clear days' notice	Special	92,629,964	90.27	9,986,386	9.73	102,616,350	67.12	517,451

Note[1]:  The 'Vote Withheld' option is provided to enable the shareholder to abstain on any resolution. It is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes for and against a resolution.

Note²: The total maximum number of Ordinary Shares which may be purchased by Next for cancellation pursuant to such contingent purchase contracts is 3.0 million. As explained in the Notice of Meeting, Next has disregarded 3.0 million votes from both the total number of votes cast in favour of the resolution and the total votes cast so that the voting of those shares did not affect the result of the poll.

In accordance with LR 9.6.2, a copy of resolutions passed as special business will be submitted as soon as practicable to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available shortly for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.  

 

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