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RNS Number : 6402D  Card Factory PLC  22 June 2023

22 June 2023

Card Factory plc

(the "Company" or "cardfactory")

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

cardfactory, the UK's leading specialist retailer of greeting cards, gifts and
celebration essentials, announces that all of the resolutions set out in Part
II of the Notice of AGM ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 19 May 2023
were passed on a poll at the annual general meeting held today.

Details of the aggregate poll votes submitted on the resolutions are set out
below:

      Resolution                                             Votes for    % of    Votes against   % of         Votes withheld

                                                                          votes                   votes cast

                                                                          cast

 1.   Approve the Annual Report                              220,609,650  99.99%  20,908          0.01%        370,811
 2.   Re-elect Paul Moody                                    177,047,065  92.49%  14,375,661      7.51%        29,576,393
 3.   Re-elect Darcy Willson-Rymer                           220,678,458  99.86%  305,220         0.14%        15,441
 4.   Elect Matthias Seeger                                  220,669,080  99.86%  312,598         0.14%        17,441
 5.   Re-elect Roger Whiteside                               216,225,887  97.85%  4,745,979       2.15%        27,253
 6.   Re-elect Nathan Lane                                   177,531,572  99.81%  340,472         0.19%        43,127,075
 7.   Re-elect Robert McWilliam                              216,262,542  97.87%  4,707,574       2.13%        29,003
 8.   Elect Indira Thambiah                                  220,828,253  99.93%  144,863         0.07%        26,003
 9.   Approve the Remuneration Report                        220,865,634  99.94%  126,084         0.06%        9,651
 10.  Appoint auditor                                        220,777,992  99.91%  209,010         0.09%        14,367
 11.  Remuneration of auditor                                220,735,941  99.89%  253,279         0.11%        12,149
 12.  Authority to allot shares                              220,621,807  99.83%  377,011         0.17%        2,551
 13.  Authority to disapply pre-emption rights               220,432,890  99.81%  428,977         0.19%        139,502
 14.  Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights    220,427,890  99.80%  435,227         0.20%        138,252
 15.  Authority to purchase own shares                       220,953,701  99.98%  44,567          0.02%        3,101
 16.  Authority to call general meetings on 14 days' notice  220,354,695  99.71%  641,514         0.29%        2,910

 

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 poll cards were made in respect of 221,001,659 shares
representing 64.48% 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 2023, the Company had 342,757,296 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
via Teneo (below)

Darcy Willson-Rymer, Chief Executive Officer

Matthias Seeger, Chief Financial Officer

 

Teneo
 
+44 (0) 207 353 4200

James Macey White / Jo
Blackshaw
     cardfactory@teneo.com (mailto:cardfactory@tulchangroup.com)

 

 

 

 

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