Company Announcements

Result of AGM

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Card Factory PLC
23 June 2022
 

23 June 2022

Card Factory plc

(the "Company" or "Card Factory")

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

Card Factory, the UK's leading specialist retailer of greeting cards, gifts, wrap and bags, announces that all of the resolutions set out in Part II of the Notice of AGM ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 22 May 2021 were passed by way of a show of hands at its AGM held earlier today.

Details of the proxy voting instructions, lodged prior to the meeting, are set out below:


 

Resolution

 

Votes for

 

% of

votes

cast

 

 

Votes against

 

% of

votes cast

 

Votes withheld

1.

Approve

Annual Report

206,085,875

99.98%

47,493

0.02%

19,355

2.

Re-elect

Paul Moody

197,541,763

95.84%

8,581,232

4.16%

29,728

3.

Re-elect Darcy Willson-Rymer

206,069,386

99.97%

53,610

0.03%

29,727

4.

Re-elect

Kristian Lee

206,058,781

99.97%

64,002

0.03%

29,940

5.

Re-elect

Octavia Morley

195,944,686

95.06%

10,190,716

4.94%

17,321

6.

Re-elect

Roger Whiteside

200,288,677

97.17%

5,832,856

2.83%

31,190

7.

Re-elect

Nathan Lane

164,615,081

99.97%

52,580

0.03%

41,485,062

8.

Elect Robert McWilliam

206,021,844

99.95%

99,689

0.05%

31,190

9.

Approve

Remuneration Report

169,968,698

83.30%

34,070,430

16.70%

2,113,595

10.

Re-appoint auditor

202,820,021

98.39%

3,317,881

1.61%

14,821

11.

Remuneration of auditor

202,859,327

98.41%

3,277,163

1.59%

16,233

12.

Authority to allot shares

205,954,568

99.91%

190,028

0.09%

8,127

13.

Authority to disapply pre-emption rights

206,030,709

99.95%

109,566

0.05%

12,448

14.

Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights

206,011,136

99.94%

129,676

0.06%

11,911

15.

Authority to purchase own shares

206,073,234

99.97%

70,812

0.03%

8,677

16.

Authority to call general meetings on 14 days' notice

205,248,516

99.57%

886,122

0.43%

18,085

 

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 proxy appointments were made in respect of 205,906,496 shares representing 60.14% 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.

 

5.   A copy of this announcement will shortly be available on the Company's investor relations website at www.cardfactoryinvestors.com

 

6.   As at 22 June 2022, the Company had 342,366,344 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

Tel: 01924 839150

Darcy Willson-Rymer, Chief Executive Officer

Kristian Lee, Chief Financial Officer

Tulchan Communications                                               

James Macey White / Alison Lygo

 

Tel: +44 (0) 207 353 4200


 

 

 

 

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