Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9935P

Card Factory PLC

23 June 2022

 

23 June 2022

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, gifts, wrap and bags, announces that all of the resolutions set out in Part II of the Notice of AGM ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 22 May 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	206,085,875	99.98%	47,493	0.02%	19,355
2.	Re-elect Paul Moody	197,541,763	95.84%	8,581,232	4.16%	29,728
3.	Re-elect Darcy Willson-Rymer	206,069,386	99.97%	53,610	0.03%	29,727
4.	Re-elect Kristian Lee	206,058,781	99.97%	64,002	0.03%	29,940
5.	Re-elect Octavia Morley	195,944,686	95.06%	10,190,716	4.94%	17,321
6.	Re-elect Roger Whiteside	200,288,677	97.17%	5,832,856	2.83%	31,190
7.	Re-elect Nathan Lane	164,615,081	99.97%	52,580	0.03%	41,485,062
8.	Elect Robert McWilliam	206,021,844	99.95%	99,689	0.05%	31,190
9.	Approve Remuneration Report	169,968,698	83.30%	34,070,430	16.70%	2,113,595
10.	Re-appoint auditor	202,820,021	98.39%	3,317,881	1.61%	14,821
11.	Remuneration of auditor	202,859,327	98.41%	3,277,163	1.59%	16,233
12.	Authority to allot shares	205,954,568	99.91%	190,028	0.09%	8,127
13.	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	206,030,709	99.95%	109,566	0.05%	12,448
14.	Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	206,011,136	99.94%	129,676	0.06%	11,911
15.	Authority to purchase own shares	206,073,234	99.97%	70,812	0.03%	8,677
16.	Authority to call general meetings on 14 days' notice	205,248,516	99.57%	886,122	0.43%	18,085

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 205,906,496 shares representing 60.14% 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 22 June 2022, the Company had 342,366,344 ordinary shares of £0.01 each in issue with voting rights. No shares are held in treasury.

7.  Resolutions 1 to 12 (inclusive) were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to 16 (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. No such questions were submitted. 

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 / Alison Lygo	Tel: [phone]

 

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