Company Announcements

Result of AGM

Source: RNS
RNS Number : 6673E
Pets At Home Group Plc
08 July 2021
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 8 July 2021

PETS AT HOME GROUP PLC: Results of Annual General Meeting 2021

 

Pets at Home Group Plc ("Company") gives notice that at its Annual General Meeting held on 8 July 2021 at Pets at Home, Chester House, Stanley Green Trading Estate, Handforth, Cheshire, SK9 3RN at 11.00 a.m., a poll was taken on all resolutions put to the meeting.  All resolutions were passed by the members entitled to vote.

The results of the poll incorporating proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting are set out below.

 

 

VOTES FOR¹

VOTES AGAINST

%

VOTES TOTAL

% OF ISC³

VOTES WITHHELD4

Ordinary Resolutions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

To receive the directors report and accounts for the year ended 25 March 2021

396,970,853

99.80

805,498

0.20

397,776,351

79.56

1,074,305

2

To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 25 March 2021

385,572,259

96.68

13,251,020

3.32

398,823,279

79.76

27,377

3

To declare a final dividend of 5.5 pence per ordinary share for the year ended 25 March 2021

398,839,032

100.00

3,760

0.00

398,842,792

79.77

7,864

 

4

To re-elect the following individuals as directors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4A

Peter Pritchard

398,832,064

100.00

7,472

0.00

398,839,536

79.77

11,120

4B

Mike Iddon

397,705,104

99.72

1,127,909

0.28

398,833,013

79.77

17,643

4C

Dennis Millard

398,822,330

100.00

9,858

0.00

398,832,188

79.77

18,468

4D

Sharon Flood

398,523,252

99.92

315,592

0.08

398,838,844

79.77

11,812

4E

Stanislas Laurent

398,816,342

100.00

16,185

0.00

398,832,527

79.77

18,129

4F

Professor Susan Dawson

398,823,101

100.00

15,438

0.00

398,838,539

79.77

12,117

4G

Ian Burke

398,526,388

99.92

303,633

0.08

398,830,021

79.77

20,635

5

To elect Zarin Patel as director

398,436,929

99.90

392,599

0.10

398,829,528

79.77

21,128

6

To reappoint KPMG LLP as the auditor

345,455,404

86.62

53,376,639

13.38

398,832,043

79.77

18,613

7

To authorise the directors to set the auditor's fees

394,587,266

98.93

4,260,024

1.07

398,847,290

79.77

3,366

8

To give the directors authority to allot shares

373,158,772

93.56

25,668,856

6.44

398,827,628

79.77

23,028

9

To authorise the Company and its Subsidiaries to make political donations

397,964,973

99.78

873,679

0.22

398,838,652

79.77

11,254

Special Resolutions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

To disapply pre-emption rights

390,189,982

99.98

96,509

0.02

390,286,491

78.06

8,564,165

11

Additional disapplication of pre-emption rights

375,812,873

96.29

14,473,618

3.71

390,286,491

78.06

8,564,165

12

To authorise the Company to buy its own shares

396,665,662

99.66

1,348,496

0.34

398,014,158

79.60

836,118

13

To authorise short notice general meetings

386,550,365

96.92

12,298,213

3.08

398,848,578

79.77

2,078

 

Notes:

 

1.         Votes "for" include discretionary votes.

2.         Percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.

3.         Issued share capital at meeting date: 500,000,000.

4.         A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "for" and "against" a resolution.

 

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website http://investors.petsathome.com

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, a copy of the resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, passed by the Company at the Annual General Meeting held on 8 July 2021, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

 

For further information contact:

Lucy Williams

Group Company Secretary and

Legal Director

Pets at Home Group Plc

0161 486 6688

 

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com or visit www.rns.com.

RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy.
 
END
 
 
RAGEALXPEEDFEFA