26 November 2020
ASOS Plc
Result of AGM
Following the Annual General Meeting held today, 26 November 2020, ASOS Plc (the "Company") announces the result of the poll vote for each resolution as follows:
|
RESOLUTIONS |
FOR |
% FOR |
AGAINST |
% AGAINST |
WITHHELD* |
|
1. To approve the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 August 2020 |
84,068,448
|
99.99
|
1,588
|
0.01
|
251,377
|
|
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 August 2020 |
60,188,026 |
81.99 |
13,224,901 |
18.01 |
10,908,386
|
|
3. To re-elect Adam Crozier as a Director of the Company |
79,525,628 |
94.31 |
4,795,278 |
5.69 |
407 |
|
4. To re-elect Nick Beighton as a Director of the Company |
83,022,670 |
99.96 |
36,776 |
0.04 |
1,261,867 |
|
5. To re-elect Mat Dunn as a Director of the Company |
82,482,250 |
97.82 |
1,838,856 |
2.18 |
207 |
|
6. To re-elect Ian Dyson as a Director of the Company |
75,603,414 |
89.66 |
8,717,492 |
10.34 |
407 |
|
7. To re-elect Mai Fyfield as a Director of the Company |
81,386,519 |
96.52 |
2,934,387 |
3.48 |
407 |
|
8. To re-elect Karen Geary as a Director of the Company |
76,389,811 |
90.59 |
7,931,095 |
9.41 |
407 |
|
9. To re-elect Luke Jensen as a Director of the Company |
83,008,495 |
98.44 |
1,312,411 |
1.56 |
407 |
|
10. To re-elect Nick Robertson as a Director of the Company |
82,933,609 |
98.35 |
1,387,456 |
1.65 |
247 |
|
11. To elect Eugenia Ulasewicz as a Director of the Company |
82,422,442 |
97.75 |
1,898,464 |
2.25 |
407 |
|
12. To re-appoint PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company |
84,188,943 |
99.86 |
121,025 |
0.14 |
11,345 |
|
13. To authorise the Directors to determine the amount of the auditors' remuneration |
84,305,057 |
99.99 |
4,816 |
0.01 |
11,440 |
|
14. To authorise the Directors to allot Ordinary Shares in the Company |
84,048,126 |
99.68 |
272,836 |
0.32 |
351 |
|
15. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights** |
84,283,480 |
99.96 |
37,091 |
0.04 |
742 |
|
16. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of own shares** |
84,145,115 |
99.83 |
139,856 |
0.17 |
36,342 |
|
17. To authorise the Company to adopt new Articles of Association of the Company** |
84,317,387 |
99.99 |
3,102 |
0.01 |
824 |
|
18. To authorise the Company to make political donations |
82,892,734 |
98.43 |
1,321,503 |
1.57 |
107,176
|
*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the votes for or against a resolution
** Passed as a special resolution.
Full details of the voting and a recording of the meeting will be available shortly on the Company's website: www.asosplc.com
For further information:
ASOS plc Tel: 020 7756 1000
Nick Beighton, Chief Executive Officer
Mat Dunn, Chief Financial Officer
Alison Lygo, Investor Relations
Website: www.asosplc.com/investors
Headland Consultancy Tel: 020 3805 4822
Susanna Voyle/Stephen Malthouse/ Fay Rajaratnam
JPMorgan Cazenove (Nominated Advisor) Tel: 020 7742 4000
Bill Hutchings/Christopher Wood
Numis Securities Tel: 020 7260 1000
Alex Ham/Luke Bordewich
Background note
ASOS is an online retailer for fashion-loving 20-somethings around the world, with a purpose to give its customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be. Through its market-leading app and mobile/desktop web experience, available in ten languages and in over 200 markets, ASOS customers can shop a curated edit of 85,000 products, sourced from 850 of the best global and local third-party brands and its mix of fashion-led in-house labels - ASOS Design, ASOS Edition, ASOS 4505 and Collusion. ASOS aims to give all of its customers a truly frictionless experience, with an ever-greater number of different payment methods and hundreds of local deliveries and returns options, including Next-Day and Same-Day Delivery, dispatched from state-of-the-art fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Germany.
ASOS' websites attracted 233.4m visits during August 2020 (August 2019: 187.4m) and as at 31 August 2020 had 23.4m active customers1 (31 August 2019: 20.3m), of which 7.1m were located in the UK and 16.3m were located in international territories (31 August 2019: 6.4m in the UK and 13.9m internationally).
1 Defined as having shopped in the last 12 months as at 31 August
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