Result of AGM

Next PLC

16 May 2024

 

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NEXT plc ("NEXT")

Results of 2024 Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

The Board of NEXT plc is pleased to announce that at the AGM of NEXT shareholders held on 16 May 2024, all resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting contained in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 27 January 2024 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 9.30 am on 14 May 2024, being those eligible to be voted on at the AGM, was 127,125,597.

		For		Against		TOTAL VOTES CAST	% of shares on register at 9.30am 14 May 2024	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	93,832,750	99.71	275,887	0.29	94,108,637	74.03	775,668
2 To approve the Remuneration Report	Ordinary	83,634,990	88.27	11,118,835	11.73	94,753,825	74.54	130,459
3 To declare a final dividend of 141 pence per ordinary share	Ordinary	94,882,235	100.00	721	0.00	94,882,956	74.64	1,349
4 To elect Venetia Butterfield as a director	Ordinary	94,828,392	99.94	53,631	0.06	94,882,023	74.64	2,282
5 To elect Amy Stirling as a director	Ordinary	93,814,075	99.63	349,684	0.37	94,163,759	74.07	720,546
6 To re-elect Jonathan Bewes as a director	Ordinary	91,613,840	96.56	3,268,305	3.44	94,882,145	74.64	2,160
7 To re-elect Soumen Das as a director	Ordinary	91,183,461	96.83	2,980,454	3.17	94,163,915	74.07	720,390
8 To re-elect Tom Hall as a director	Ordinary	89,855,715	94.70	5,025,146	5.30	94,880,861	74.64	3,444
9 To re-elect Dame Tristia Harrison as a director	Ordinary	92,159,487	97.13	2,722,617	2.87	94,882,104	74.64	2,201
10 To re-elect Amanda James as a director	Ordinary	93,684,376	98.74	1,198,184	1.26	94,882,560	74.64	1,745
11 To re-elect Richard Papp as a director	Ordinary	93,664,659	98.72	1,217,567	1.28	94,882,226	74.64	2,079
12 To re-elect Michael Roney as a director	Ordinary	88,656,660	94.15	5,507,645	5.85	94,164,305	74.07	720,000
13. To re-elect Jane Shields as a director	Ordinary	93,666,502	98.72	1,215,690	1.28	94,882,192	74.64	2,113
14 To re-elect Jeremy Stakol as a director	Ordinary	93,709,051	98.76	1,173,050	1.24	94,882,101	74.64	2,204
15 To re-elect Lord Wolfson as a director	Ordinary	93,718,181	98.77	1,164,327	1.23	94,882,508	74.64	1,797
16 To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor	Ordinary	93,874,555	98.94	1,007,459	1.06	94,882,014	74.64	2,291
17 To authorise the Audit Committee to set the auditor's remuneration	Ordinary	94,869,493	99.99	12,871	0.01	94,882,364	74.64	1,941
18  Directors' authority to allot shares	Ordinary	90,359,802	95.23	4,521,241	4.77	94,881,043	74.64	3,261
19 General authority to disapply pre-emption rights	Special	83,427,858	87.93	11,450,104	12.07	94,877,962	74.63	6,342
20 Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	Special	80,211,202	84.58	14,619,413	15.42	94,830,615	74.60	53,689
21 Authority for on-market purchase of own shares	Special	91,939,318	96.92	2,917,939	3.08	94,857,257	74.62	27,048
22 Authority for off-market purchases of own shares		93,775,986	98.86	1,081,725	1.14	94,857,711	74.62	26,594
Less votes disregarded under the provisions of the Companies Act 2006	Special	(3,000,000)				(3,000,000)
Resolution 22 total2		90,775,986	98.82	1,081,725	1.18	91,857,711	72.22	26,594
23 Notice period of general meetings	Special	89,653,297	94.51	5,207,183	5.49	94,860,480	74.62	23,825

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.

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.

 

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