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03/05/2017 15:50

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Ocado Group PLC
03 May 2017
RESULT OF AGM
OCADO GROUP PLC
3 May 2017
Ocado Group plc
Annual General Meeting 2017 Results
The Annual General Meeting of Ocado Group plc (the "Company") was held at Peterborough Court, 133 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2BB on Wednesday, 3 May 2017 at 11.00am.
All resolutions were decided on a poll and all resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting were passed by shareholders. The full text of each resolution is contained in the notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available on the Company's websitewww.ocadogroup.com(with each resolution number below corresponding to the resolution number in the notice).
The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions put before the Annual General Meeting and the number of votes withheld were as follows:
Resolutions
For
Against
Total Votes
Votes Withheld
Votes
%
Votes
%
Ordinary Resolutions
1
To receive the Annual Report and Accounts
448,431,851
100.00%
2,407
0.00%
448,607,479
173,221
2
To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy
416,068,306
93.75%
27,747,647
6.25%
448,607,479
4,791,526
3
To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report
413,472,812
93.16%
30,342,020
6.84%
448,607,479
4,792,647
4
To re-appoint Lord Rose
437,227,347
97.51%
11,185,327
2.49%
448,607,479
194,805
5
To re-appoint Tim Steiner
447,232,365
99.69%
1,369,317
0.31%
448,607,479
5,797
6
To re-appoint Duncan Tatton-Brown
447,229,291
99.69%
1,372,391
0.31%
448,607,479
5,797
7
To re-appoint Neill Abrams
443,289,719
98.86%
5,124,536
1.14%
448,607,479
193,224
8
To re-appoint Mark Richardson
446,493,307
99.53%
2,108,375
0.47%
448,607,479
5,797
9
To re-appoint Jrn Rausing
441,019,204
98.31%
7,580,895
1.69%
448,607,479
7,380
10
To re-appoint Ruth Anderson
445,974,117
99.41%
2,624,430
0.59%
448,607,479
8,932
11
To re-appoint Douglas McCallum
441,645,140
98.45%
6,953,699
1.55%
448,607,479
8,640
12
To re-appoint Alex Mahon
448,392,486
99.95%
206,061
0.05%
448,607,479
8,932
13
To re-appoint Andrew Harrison 
448,391,812
99.95%
206,735
0.05%
448,607,479
8,932
14
To re-appoint Emma Lloyd
448,392,032
99.95%
206,515
0.05%
448,607,479
8,932
15
To appoint Deloitte LLP as auditors
441,158,885
98.34%
7,445,712
1.66%
448,607,479
2,882
16
To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors'
remuneration
441,286,935
98.37%
7,318,577
1.63%
448,607,479
1,967
17
Authority for political donations and political expenditure
437,896,115
97.96%
9,141,612
2.04%
448,607,479
1,569,752
18
Authority to allot shares up to one-third of issued share capital
441,197,745
99.41%
2,620,240
0.59%
448,607,479
4,789,494
19
Authority to allot shares in connection with a rights issue only
360,233,924
81.17%
83,580,107
18.83%
448,607,479
4,793,448
Special Resolutions
20
General authority to disapply pre-emption rights
433,827,686
97.75%
9,986,488
2.25%
448,607,479
4,793,305
21
Authority to purchase own shares
442,981,722
99.95%
239,247
0.05%
448,607,479
5,386,510
22
Notice of general meetings
445,985,245
99.28%
3,223,439
0.72%
449,209,803
1,119
Notes:
(i)Votes 'withheld' are not votes under English law and so have not been included in the calculation of whether a resolution is carried. Percentages have been rounded to two decimal places.
(ii) As at 7.00am on 3 May 2017, the Company's issued share capital was 629,719,608 ordinary shares of 2p each admitted to trading.The Company does not hold any ordinary shares in treasury. Each ordinary share carries the right to one vote in relation to all circumstances at general meetings of the Company. Of these issued ordinary shares: (1) 1,914,114 shares are held by Yorkshire Building Society, the trustee for the Company's employee Share Incentive Plan, who must vote, at the request of a participant, in respect of ordinary shares held by the trustee on behalf of that participant; (2) 32,811,272 shares are held by Wealth Nominees Limited on behalf of Estera Trust (Jersey) Limited, the independent company which is the trustee of Ocado's employee benefit trust (the "EBT Trustee"). The EBT Trustee has waived its right to exercise its voting rights and to receive dividends in respect of these 32,811,272 ordinary shares, although it may vote in respect of 32,732,240 ordinary shares which have vested under the joint share ownership scheme and remain in the trust as at 3 May 2017, at the request of a participant.
This announcement is made pursuant to the requirements of Listing Rules 9.6.2 and 9.6.18. In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of resolutions 17 to 22 (as set out in the notice of Annual General Meeting), being the resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting not concerning ordinary business, has been submitted today to the Financial Conduct Authority's national storage mechanism. This document will be available for viewing athttp://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
A copy of the Annual General Meeting results will be available on Ocado's website:www.ocadogroup.com.
Person responsible for arranging the release of this announcement:
Neill Abrams
Company Secretary
Ocado Group plc
Buildings One & Two, Trident Place, 
Mosquito Way, Hatfield, AL10 9UL
Hertfordshire
+ 44 1707 228 000
company.secretary@ocado.com

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