Results of 2022 Annual General Meeting

RNS Number : 4425N

Lookers PLC

31 May 2022

 

31 May 2022

Lookers plc

(the "Company")

Results of 2022 Annual General Meeting

The Company announces that at its Annual General Meeting held at 10:00am on 31 May 2022 (the "AGM") all of the resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting (the "Notice") published on 25 April 2022 were passed by the requisite majority by means of a poll vote. Resolutions 1 to 14 were passed as ordinary resolutions (requiring a simple majority of votes in favour of the resolution) and resolutions 15 to 19 were passed as special resolutions (requiring a 75% majority of votes in favour). The results of the poll for each resolution are set out below:

Resolution	Description	Votes for	%	Votes against	%	Votes withheld*	Votes cast as a % of issued share capital
1	To receive and adopt the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021, together with the Reports of the Directors and of the Auditors thereon.	291,293,492	99.89%	326,896	0.11%	53,914	74.35%
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2021.	290,930,080	99.74%	744,222	0.26%	0	74.36%
3	To declare a final dividend of 2.5p per ordinary share in the Company in respect of the year ended 31 December 2021.	290,315,442	99.53%	1,358,860	0.47%	0	74.36%
4	To re-appoint BDO LLP as the auditors to the Company.	290,949,896	99.75%	724,406	0.25%	0	74.36%
5	To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee of the Company to determine the remuneration of the auditors.	290,025,085	99.43%	1,649,217	0.57%	0	74.36%
6	To elect Ian Alan Bull as a Director.	291,222,314	99.85%	451,988	0.15%	0	74.36%
7	To elect Deborah Lynn Sherry as a Director.	291,528,303	99.95%	145,999	0.05%	0	74.36%
8	To elect Oliver Walter Laird as a Director.	291,566,939	99.96%	107,363	0.04%	0	74.36%
9	To re-elect Robin James Churchouse as a Director	291,159,540	99.88%	353,914	0.12%	160,848	74.32%
10	To re-elect Duncan Andrew McPhee as a Director	291,422,597	99.92%	245,405	0.08%	6,300	74.36%
11	To re-elect Victoria Grant Mitchell as a Director.	291,629,527	99.99%	38,475	0.01%	6,300	74.36%
12	To re-elect Mark Douglas Raban as a Director.	278,522,754	95.50%	13,138,087	4.50%	13,461	74.36%
13	To re-elect Paul Van der Burgh as a Director.	291,632,717	99.99%	41,585	0.01%	0	74.36%
14	To grant the Board authority to allot shares	291,603,351	99.98%	64,651	0.02%	6,300	74.36%
15	To grant the Board authority to disapply pre-emption rights.	291,109,841	99.81%	558,161	0.19%	6,300	74.36%
16	To grant the Board authority to further disapply pre-emption rights for acquisitions.	290,899,784	99.73%	774,518	0.27%	0	74.36%
17	To authorise the Company to make market purchase of its own shares.	291,626,776	99.98%	47,526	0.02%	0	74.36%
18	To authorise calling general meetings on short notice.	291,235,593	99.85%	438,709	0.15%	0	74.36%
19	To amend the Company's Articles of Association.	290,311,282	99.53%	1,363,020	0.47%	0	74.36%

Notes:

1. In accordance with the Company's Articles of Association, on a poll every member present in person or by proxy has one vote for every share held.

2. A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentage of shares voted "For" or "Against" any resolution nor in the calculation of the proportion of "issued share capital instructed" for any resolution.

3. The issued share capital of the Company as at 31 May 2022 was 392,236,341 ordinary shares of 5 pence each. The total voting rights of the Company on the day on which shareholders had to be on the register in order to be eligible to vote at the AGM was 392,236,341. Each share carries one vote. No shares are held in treasury.

4. Votes "For" and "Against" any resolution are expressed as a percentage of votes validly cast for that resolution.

5. The full text of the resolutions passed at the AGM can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available on the Company's website at www.lookersplc.com .

6. A copy of the special business resolution passed at the AGM will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

7. A copy of the Articles of Association approved at the meeting and adopted as the Articles of Association of the company will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

8. The complete poll results will be available shortly on the Company's website at www.lookersplc.com .

Enquiries:

Debbie Fish

Deputy Company Secretary

0161 291 0043

The Company is registered in England at Lookers House, 3 Etchells Road, West Timperley, Altrincham WA14 5XS. Company registration number 00111876. LEI number 213800TSB8PJEACDAV33

Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.

 

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