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RNS Number : 0156Y  Watches of Switzerland Group PLC  01 September 2022

 

 

Watches of Switzerland Group PLC

Result of AGM held on 1 September 2022

 

 

The Board is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions set out in the
Company's notice of AGM dated 18 July 2022 were voted on by way of a poll and
were passed.

 

The final voting figures are shown below.

 

 Resolution                                                                       Total Votes cast        For                  Against          Withheld
                                                                                  Number                  Number       %       Number     %     Number
 1    To receive the Strategic Report, Directors' Report and the financial        193,685,453             192,958,481  100.00  285        0.00  726,687
 statements for the financial year ended 1 May 2022 together with the report of
 the auditor.
 2    To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report                               193,685,453             188,426,596  97.38   5,071,294  2.62  187,563
 3    To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy                               193,685,453             189,914,532  98.15   3,583,126  1.85  187,795
 4    To elect Bill Floydd as a director                                          193,685,453             193,020,152  99.95   94,000     0.05  571,301
 5    To elect Chabi Nouri as a director                                          193,685,453             193,060,139  99.77   438,232    0.23  187,082
 6.   To re-elect Ian Carter as a director                                        193,685,453             191,530,622  98.98   1,967,739  1.02  187,092
 7    To re-elect Brian Duffy as a director                                       193,685,453             193,182,739  99.84   315,722    0.16  186,992
 8    To re-elect Tea Colaianni as a director                                     193,685,453             191,739,098  99.29   1,375,054  0.71  571,301
 9    To re-elect Rosa Monckton as a director                                     193,685,453             191,914,248  99.18   1,584,123  0.82  187,082
 10  To re-elect Robert Moorhead as a director                                    193,685,453             190,752,526  99.04   1,849,738  0.96  1,083,189
 11  To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as Auditors                                  193,685,453             192,088,431  99.47   1,027,803  0.53  569,219
 12  To authorize the directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditors     193,685,453             193,114,383  100.00  1,546      0.00  569,524
 13  To give authority to the Company to make political donations or              193,685,453             189,413,091  97.89   4,087,362  2.11  185,000
 expenditure
 14  To give authority to the directors to allot shares                           193,685,453  187,440,397             96.87   6,059,946  3.13  185,110
 15  To disapply pre-emption rights                                               193,685,453  192,457,941             99.46   1,041,880  0.54  185,632
 16  To disapply pre-emption rights in connection with an acquisition or other    193,685,453  185,178,294             95.70   8,321,527  4.30  185,632
 capital investment
 17  Authority to purchase own shares                                             193,685,453  191,874,857             99.59   875,720    0.41  241,646
 18  Notice of general meetings                                                   193,685,453  189,963,415             98.17   3,536,918  1.83  185,120

 

 

As at the date of the AGM, the number of issued shares and total voting rights
of the Company was 239,570,297. The Company's Articles of Association set out
that every member who is present in person or by proxy shall have one vote for
every share of which he is the holder on a poll. The scrutineer of the poll
was Equiniti Limited

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2,Watches of Switzerland Group PLC will
submit a copy of the resolutions dealing with the AGM special business
approved today to the National Storage Mechanism and these will shortly be
available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/%23/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism)

 

For further information, please visit our website thewosgroupplc.com/investors
(http://www.thewosgroupplc.com/investors)

 

The Watches of Switzerland Group

 

Laura Battley  (Company
Secretary)
+44 (0) 20 7317 4604

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