Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7930G

Card Factory PLC

28 July 2021

 

28 July 2021

Card Factory plc

(the "Company" or "Card Factory")

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

Card Factory, the UK's leading specialist retailer of greeting cards, dressings and gifts, announces that all of the resolutions set out in Part II of the Notice of AGM ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 10 June 2021 were passed by way of a show of hands at its AGM held earlier today.

Details of the proxy voting instructions, lodged prior to the meeting, are set out below:

	Resolution	Votes for	% of votes cast	Votes against	% of votes cast	Votes withheld
1.	Approve Annual Report	199,090,125	99.57%	867,997	0.43%	66,223
2.	Re-elect Paul Moody	197,335,404	98.69%	2,615,125	1.31%	73,816
3.	Elect Darcy Willson-Rymer	199,927,259	99.97%	51,622	0.03%	45,464
4.	Re-elect Kristian Lee	199,887,880	99.96%	76,658	0.04%	39,807
5.	Re-elect Octavia Morley	199,914,364	99.96%	70,174	0.04%	39,807
6.	Re-elect David Stead	197,290,249	98.65%	2,693,039	1.35%	41,057
7.	Re-elect Paul McCrudden	199,918,752	99.97%	64,536	0.03%	41,057
8.	Re-elect Roger Whiteside	199,933,142	99.97%	50,146	0.03%	41,057
9.	Re-elect Nathan Lane	159,827,313	99.97%	52,257	0.03%	40,144,775
10.	Approve Remuneration Report	196,343,511	98.19%	3,618,099	1.81%	62,735
11.	Adopt Remuneration Policy	189,960,737	94.98%	10,033,932	5.02%	29,676
12.	Re-appoint auditor	199,029,908	99.52%	958,935	0.48%	35,502
13.	Remuneration of auditor	199,890,163	99.95%	100,837	0.05%	33,345
14.	Authority to allot shares	199,912,623	99.95%	103,966	0.05%	7,756
15.	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	199,907,548	99.97%	63,727	0.03%	53,070
16.	Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	199,039,612	99.53%	931,663	0.47%	53,070
17.	Authority to purchase own shares	199,099,870	99.55%	895,756	0.45%	28,719
18.	Authority to call general meetings on 14 days' notice	199,543,523	99.78%	447,659	0.22%	33,163
19.	Adopt Articles of Association	199,901,211	99.97%	65,725	0.03%	57,409

Notes:

1.  Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "Votes for" total.

2.  "Votes withheld" are not votes in law and do not count in the number of votes counted for or against a resolution.

3.  Valid proxy appointments were made in respect of 200,024,345 shares representing 58.51% of the issued share capital

4.  In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, the full text of the special business resolutions passed will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM .

5.  A copy of this announcement will shortly be available on the Company's investor relations website at www.cardfactoryinvestors.com

6.  As at 26 July 2021, the Company had 341,866,891 ordinary shares of £0.01 each in issue with voting rights. No shares are held in treasury.

7.  Resolutions 1 to 14 (inclusive) were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 19 (inclusive) were passed as special resolutions.

8.  As detailed in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, shareholders were invited to submit to the Company any questions they would otherwise have asked at the AGM. Subject to any regulatory restrictions, the Board will publish a summary of responses to relevant questions received on the Card Factory investor website at  www.cardfactoryinvestors.com shortly.  

Name of authorised Company official responsible for making this notification:

Ciaran Stone, Company Secretary

01924 839150

Enquiries:
Card Factory Plc	Tel: [phone]
Darcy Willson-Rymer, Chief Executive Officer
Kristian Lee, Chief Financial Officer
Tulchan Communications  James Macey White / Elizabeth Snow	Tel: [phone]

 

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