Results of Annual General Meeting

Pets At Home Group Plc

06 July 2023

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 6 July 2023

PETS AT HOME GROUP PLC: Results of Annual General Meeting 2023

Pets at Home Group Plc ("Company") gives notice that at its Annual General Meeting held on 6 July 2023 at Pets at Home, Chester House, Stanley Green Trading Estate, Handforth, Cheshire, SK9 3RN at 11.00 a.m., a poll was taken on all resolutions put to the meeting.  All resolutions were passed by the members entitled to vote.

The results of the poll incorporating proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting are set out below.

		VOTES FOR¹	%²	VOTES AGAINST	%	VOTES TOTAL	% OF ISC³	VOTES WITHHELD4
Ordinary Resolutions
1	To receive the directors report and accounts for the year ended 30 March 2023	362,154,848	100.00	200	0.00	362,155,048	75.03	745,677
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 30 March 2023	346,222,646	95.41	16,661,771	4.59	362,884,417	75.18	16,308
3	To approve the directors' remuneration policy, as set on pages 65 to 75 of the 2023 Annual Report	327,218,238	90.17	35,658,683	9.83	362,876,921	75.18	23,804
4	To declare a final dividend of 8.3 pence per ordinary share for the year ended 30 March 2023	362,890,089	100.00	682	0.00	362,890,771	75.19	9,954
5	To re-elect the following individuals as directors
5A	Lyssa McGowan	360,880,299	99.45	1,990,585	0.55	362,870,884	75.18	29,841
5B	Mike Iddon	359,748,707	99.14	3,129,668	0.86	362,878,375	75.18	22,350
5C	Ian Burke	349,908,835	96.43	12,967,273	3.57	362,876,108	75.18	24,617
5D	Zarin Patel	358,987,146	98.93	3,889,333	1.07	362,876,479	75.18	24,246
5E	Dennis Millard	355,225,027	97.89	7,651,453	2.11	362,876,480	75.18	24,245
5F	Susan Dawson	357,314,375	98.47	5,562,104	1.53	362,876,479	75.18	24,246
6A	To elect Roger Burnley as a director	362,865,721	100.00	10,387	0.00	362,876,108	75.18	24,617
6B	To elect Natalie-Jane Macdonald as director	362,864,616	100.00	9,364	0.00	362,873,980	75.18	26,745
7	To reappoint KPMG LLP as the auditor	283,953,151	78.25	78,926,639	21.75	362,879,790	75.18	20,935
8	To authorise the directors to set the auditor's fees	361,468,946	99.61	1,412,515	0.39	362,881,461	75.18	19,264
9	To give the directors authority to allot shares	346,200,265	95.40	16,685,881	4.60	362,886,146	75.18	14,579
10	To authorise the Company and its Subsidiaries to make political donations	357,916,589	98.69	4,746,265	1.31	362,662,854	75.14	237,871
Special Resolutions
11	To disapply pre-emption rights	354,814,755	99.96	139,597	0.04	354,954,352	73.54	7,946,373
12	Additional disapplication of pre-emption rights	351,464,645	98.90	3,912,707	1.10	355,377,352	73.63	7,523,373
13	To authorise the Company to buy its own shares	359,163,160	99.08	3,344,653	0.92	362,507,813	75.11	392,912
14	To authorise short notice general meetings	356,669,479	98.29	6,217,296	1.71	362,886,775	75.18	13,950

Notes:

1.         Votes "for" include discretionary votes.

2.         Percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.

3.         Issued share capital at meeting date: 482,662,864.

4.         A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "for" and "against" a resolution.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website https://investors.petsathome.com/investors/

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, a copy of the resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, passed by the Company at the Annual General Meeting held on 6 July 2023, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

For further information contact:

Lucy Williams

Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary

Pets at Home Group Plc

0161 486 6688

 

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