Result of AGM

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Next PLC

19 May 2022

 

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NEXT plc (the "Company")

Results of 2022 Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

The Board of NEXT plc is pleased to announce that at the AGM of NEXT shareholders held on 19 May 2022 all resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting contained in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 29 January 2022 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 6.30 pm on 17 May 2022, being those eligible to be voted on at the AGM, was 131,025,480.  

		For		Against		TOTAL VOTES CAST	% of shares on register at 6.30pm 17 May 2022	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	98,961,891	99.65	346,866	0.35	99,308,757	75.79%	816,554
2 To approve the Remuneration Report	Ordinary	92,593,169	92.49	7,515,888	7.51	100,109,057	76.40%	16,254
3 To declare a dividend of 127 pence per ordinary share	Ordinary	100,074,018	99.95	48,144	0.05	100,122,162	76.41%	3,149
4 To elect Soumen Das as a director	Ordinary	99,834,914	99.72	283,679	0.28	100,118,593	76.41%	6,718
5 To re-elect Jonathan Bewes as a director	Ordinary	96,783,163	96.67	3,336,117	3.33	100,119,280	76.41%	6,031
6 To re-elect Tom Hall as a director	Ordinary	98,467,849	98.35	1,650,697	1.65	100,118,546	76.41%	6,765
7 To re-elect Tristia Harrison as a director	Ordinary	99,038,709	98.92	1,080,470	1.08	100,119,179	76.41%	6,132
8 To re-elect Amanda James as a director	Ordinary	99,557,729	99.44	561,937	0.56	100,119,666	76.41%	5,645
9 To re-elect Richard Papp as a director	Ordinary	99,626,744	99.51	492,536	0.49	100,119,280	76.41%	6,031
10 To re-elect Michael Roney as a director	Ordinary	84,483,165	87.63	11,930,924	12.37	96,414,089	73.58%	3,711,222
11 To re-elect Jane Shields as a director	Ordinary	99,633,715	99.52	485,531	0.48	100,119,246	76.41%	6,065
12 To re-elect Dame Dianne Thompson as a director	Ordinary	99,024,746	98.91	1,091,206	1.09	100,115,952	76.41%	9,359
13 To re-elect Lord Wolfson as a director	Ordinary	99,618,011	99.50	502,954	0.50	100,120,965	76.41%	4,346
14 To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor	Ordinary	99,325,866	99.21	795,234	0.79	100,121,100	76.41%	4,211
15 To authorise the Audit Committee to set the auditor's remuneration	Ordinary	100,112,121	99.99	9,643	0.01	100,121,764	76.41%	3,547
16  Directors' authority to allot shares	Ordinary	96,821,138	96.71	3,298,258	3.29	100,119,396	76.41%	5,915
17 General authority to disapply pre-emption rights	Special	99,754,897	99.86	136,226	0.14	99,891,123	76.24%	234,188
18 Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	Special	97,000,117	97.11	2,890,480	2.89	99,890,597	76.24%	234,714
19 Authority for on-market purchase of own shares	Special	98,969,681	98.87	1,130,503	1.13	100,100,184	76.40%	25,127
202 Authority for off-market purchases of own shares		98,830,735	98.73	1,268,311	1.27	100,099,046	76.40%	26,265
Less votes disregarded under the provisions of the Companies Act 2006	Special	(3,000,000)				(3,000,000)
Resolution 20 total		95,830,735	98.69	1,268,311	1.31	97,099,046.00	74.10%	26,265
21 Notice period of general meetings	Special	95,536,437	95.42	4,584,257	4.58	100,120,694	76.41%	4,617

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. 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 and 9.2.6ER(1), 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 https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

 

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