REG - ASOS PLC - Result of AGM

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29/11/2018 13:05

RNS Number : 9379I
ASOS PLC
29 November 2018
 


29 November 2018
 
ASOS Plc (the 'Company')
 
 
Result of AGM
 
ASOS Plc is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions, as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, were duly passed by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 29 November 2018, as set out in the table below.
 




RESOLUTIONS


FOR


% FOR


AGAINST


% AGAINST


WITHHELD*




1. To approve the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 August 2018


69,327,790
 


99.95
 


35,942
 


0.05
 


151,215
 




2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 August 2018


67,451,980
 


97.03
 


2,062,566
 


2.97
 


401
 




3. To elect Adam Crozier as a Director of the Company


68,927,108
 


99.15
 


587,538
 


0.85
 


301
 




4. To re-elect Nick Beighton as a Director of the Company


69,386,280
 


99.82
 


128,379
 


0.18
 


288
 




5. To re-elect Rita Clifton as a Director of the Company


69,407,718
 


99.85
 


106,941
 


0.15
 


288
 




6. To re-elect Ian Dyson as a Director of the Company


68,912,157
 


99.13
 


602,502
 


0.87
 


288
 




7. To re-elect Hilary Riva as a Director of the Company


69,136,964
 


99.46
 


377,695
 


0.54
 


288
 




8. To re-elect Nick Robertson as a Director of the Company


69,187,841
 


99.53
 


326,818
 


0.47
 


288
 




9. To re-appoint PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company


69,349,135
 


99.76
 


165,353
 


0.24
 


459
 




10. To authorise the Directors to determine the amount of the auditors' remuneration


69,514,158
 


99.99
 


200
 


0.0003
 


589
 




11. To authorise the Directors to allot Ordinary Shares in the Company


69,375,966
 


99.80
 


138,401
 


0.20
 


580
 




12. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights**


68,810,106
 


98.99
 


704,768
 


1.01
 


253
 




13. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares**


69,021,384
 


99.36
 


447,087
 


0.64
 


46,476
 




14. To authorise the Company to increase the aggregate level of fees payable to non-executive directors to £1m


69,364,202
 


99.79
 


148,114
 


0.21
 


2,631
 




*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the votes for or against a resolution
** Passed as a special resolution.
 
 
Full details of the voting will be available shortly on the Company's website:  www.asosplc.com
 
For further information:
 
 




ASOS Plc 
Nick Beighton, Chief Executive Officer

Greg Feehely, Director of Investor Relations
Alison Lygo, Investor Relations Manager

Website: www.asosplc.com/investors
 


Tel: 020 7756 1000




Instinctif Partners
Matthew Smallwood / Justine Warren / Tom Berger 
 


Tel: 020 7457 2020




JPMorgan Cazenove 
Michael Wentworth-Stanley / Caroline Thomlinson/ Bill Hutchings
 


Tel: 020 7742 4000




Numis Securities
Alex Ham / Luke Bordewich / Tom Ballard


Tel: 020 7260 1000




 
 
Background note
 
ASOS is a global fashion destination for 20-somethings, selling all the freshest styles complemented by exclusive content, making ASOS.com the hub of a thriving fashion community and giving our audience the confidence to be whoever they want to be. ASOS sells over 87,000 branded and ASOS Brand products through localised app and mobile/desktop web experiences, delivering from fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Europe. ASOS curates a mix of our in-house designed labels, ASOS DESIGN, ASOS EDITION, ASOS WHITE and ASOS 4505, with global and local brands sold through our own channels to deliver a locally relevant offer. Our ground-breaking propositions help bring our amazing products to almost every country in the world and we serve customers globally with increasingly tailored local experiences: relevant languages, payment methods and delivery and return options. You can currently shop ASOS in over 200 markets, in eight languages, using an ever greater number of different payment methods, with hundreds of local deliveries and returns options from pick up and drop off networks to Next-Day Delivery. We aim to give all our global customers a truly frictionless experience.
ASOS's websites attracted 157.2m visits during August 2018 (August 2017: 135.7m) and as at 31 August 2018 had 18.4m active customers1 (31 August 2017: 15.4m), of which 6.0m were located in the UK and 12.4m were located in international territories (31 August 2017: 5.2m in the UK and 10.2m internationally).
1 Defined as having shopped in the last twelve months as at 31 August
 




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