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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 against   % of         Votes withheld

                                                                          votes                   votes cast

                                                                          cast

 1.   Approve                                                206,085,875  99.98%  47,493          0.02%        19,355

      Annual Report
 2.   Re-elect                                               197,541,763  95.84%  8,581,232       4.16%        29,728

      Paul Moody
 3.   Re-elect Darcy Willson-Rymer                           206,069,386  99.97%  53,610          0.03%        29,727
 4.   Re-elect                                               206,058,781  99.97%  64,002          0.03%        29,940

      Kristian Lee
 5.   Re-elect                                               195,944,686  95.06%  10,190,716      4.94%        17,321

      Octavia Morley
 6.   Re-elect                                               200,288,677  97.17%  5,832,856       2.83%        31,190

      Roger Whiteside
 7.   Re-elect                                               164,615,081  99.97%  52,580          0.03%        41,485,062

      Nathan Lane
 8.   Elect Robert McWilliam                                 206,021,844  99.95%  99,689          0.05%        31,190
 9.   Approve                                                169,968,698  83.30%  34,070,430      16.70%       2,113,595

      Remuneration Report
 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 (http://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
(http://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: 01924 839150
 Darcy Willson-Rymer, Chief Executive Officer
 Kristian Lee, Chief Financial Officer
 Tulchan                                                                                                        Tel: +44 (0) 207 353 4200
 Communications

 James Macey White / Alison Lygo

 

 

 

 

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