Result of AGM

RNS Number : 4610O

Next PLC

17 May 2018

 

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NEXT PLC

Results of 2018 Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

The Board of Next plc is pleased to announce that at the AGM of Next shareholders held on 17 May 2018 all resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting contained in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 27 January 2018 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 6.30pm on 15 May 2018, being those eligible to be voted on at the AGM, was 141,459,776.

		For		Against		TOTAL VOTES CAST	% of shares on register at 6.30pm 15 May 2018	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	102,887,694	99.93	72,315	0.07	102,960,009	72.78%	74,432
2 To approve the Remuneration Report	Ordinary	101,160,713	99.25	763,682	0.75	101,924,395	72.05%	1,110,044
3 To declare a final dividend of 105p per ordinary share	Ordinary	102,973,527	100.00	125	0.00	102,973,652	72.79%	60,789
4 To re-elect Jonathan Bewes as a director	Ordinary	102,299,622	99.35	667,585	0.65	102,967,207	72.79%	67,234
5 To re-elect Caroline Goodall as a director	Ordinary	102,308,477	99.36	658,624	0.64	102,967,101	72.79%	67,340
6 To re-elect Amanda James as a director	Ordinary	101,394,422	98.47	1,573,505	1.53	102,967,927	72.79%	66,514
7 To elect Richard Papp as a director	Ordinary	101,582,475	98.66	1,384,711	1.34	102,967,186	72.79%	67,255
8 To re-elect Michael Roney as a director	Ordinary	99,958,867	97.15	2,936,047	2.85	102,894,914	72.74%	139,526
9 To re-elect Francis Salway as a director	Ordinary	102,355,768	99.41	611,299	0.59	102,967,067	72.79%	67,374
10 To re-elect Jane Shields as a director	Ordinary	101,587,965	98.66	1,380,082	1.34	102,968,047	72.79%	66,394
11 To re-elect Dame Dianne Thompson as a director	Ordinary	102,321,317	99.37	645,155	0.63	102,966,472	72.79%	67,969
12 To re-elect Lord Wolfson as a director	Ordinary	101,645,327	98.71	1,323,607	1.29	102,968,934	72.79%	65,507
13 To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor and authorise the directors to set their remuneration	Ordinary	102,954,868	99.99	12,909	0.01	102,967,777	72.79%	66,664
14  Directors' authority to allot shares	Ordinary	98,528,583	95.69	4,434,061	4.31	102,962,644	72.79%	71,797
15 Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	Special	102,886,614	99.93	68,577	0.07	102,955,191	72.78%	79,250
16 Authority to disapply additional pre-emption rights	Special	100,528,590	97.64	2,431,468	2.36	102,960,058	72.78%	74,382
17 Authority for on-market purchase of own shares	Special	102,405,766	99.48	532,952	0.52	102,938,718	72.77%	95,723
182 Authority for off-market purchases of own shares	Special	101,509,757	98.61	1,427,699	1.39	102,937,456	72.77%	96,984
Less votes disregarded under the provisions of the Companies Act 2006		(3,000,000)2				(3,000,000)2
Resolution 18 total		98,509,757	98.57	1,427,699	1.43	99,937,456	70.65	96,984
19 To authorise the calling of general meetings (other than Annual General Meetings) on 14 clear days' notice	Special	96,770,330	94.42	5,719,858	5.58	102,490,188	72.45%	544,253

Note1:  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.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM 

 

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