REG - Card Factory PLC - Result of AGM

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28/07/2021 13:25

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: 01924 839150




Darcy Willson-Rymer, Chief Executive Officer 




Kristian Lee, Chief Financial Officer 




Tulchan Communications                                                
James Macey White / Elizabeth Snow
 


Tel: +44 (0) 207 353 4200 









 
 
 
 

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