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Results of Annual General Meeting 2024

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Pets At Home Group Plc
12 July 2024
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 12 July 2024

PETS AT HOME GROUP PLC: Results of Annual General Meeting 2024

 

Pets at Home Group Plc ("Company") gives notice that at its Annual General Meeting held on 11 July 2024 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 28 March 2024

348,897,549

99.99%

28,633

0.01%

348,926,182

74.65%

805,033

2

To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 28 March 2024

331,100,225

94.69%

18,561,019

5.31%

349,661,244

74.81%

69,971

3

To declare a final dividend of 8.3 pence per ordinary share for the year ended 28 March 2024

349,657,315

100.00%

7,975

0.00%

349,665,290

74.81%

65,925

4

To re-elect the following individuals as directors








4A

Lyssa McGowan

343,351,205

98.20%

6,287,582

1.80%

349,638,787

74.80%

92,428

4B

Mike Iddon

343,397,394

98.21%

6,260,339

1.79%

349,657,733

74.81%

73,482

4C

Ian Burke

338,091,957

96.70%

11,551,065

3.30%

349,643,022

74.80%

88,191

4D

Zarin Patel

340,298,410

97.33%

9,324,600

2.67%

349,623,010

74.80%

108,203

4E

Roger Burnley

329,830,489

94.34%

19,797,801

5.66%

349,628,290

74.80%

102,923

4F

Natalie-Jane Macdonald

340,323,912

97.34%

9,303,993

2.66%

349,627,905

74.80%

103,308

5

To elect Angelique Augereau as a director

349,603,253

99.99%

20,409

0.01%

349,623,662

74.80%

107,553

6

To appoint Deloitte LLP as the auditor

349,099,328

99.85%

537,689

0.15%

349,637,017

74.80%

76,128

7

To authorise the directors to set the auditor's fees

349,603,505

99.99%

42,869

0.01%

349,646,374

74.80%

66,771

8

To give the directors authority to allot shares

339,042,583

96.97%

10,602,164

3.03%

349,644,747

74.80%

68,398

9

To authorise the Company and its Subsidiaries to make political donations

340,155,605

97.90%

7,305,855

2.10%

347,461,460

74.34%

2,251,685

Special Resolutions








10

To disapply pre-emption rights

342,046,774

99.71%

988,669

0.29%

343,035,443

73.39%

6,677,702

11

Additional disapplication of pre-emption rights

342,276,991

99.67%

1,136,682

0.33%

343,413,673

73.47%

6,299,472

12

To authorise the Company to buy its own shares

348,983,458

99.87%

464,933

0.13%

349,448,391

74.76%

264,754

13

To authorise short notice general meetings

345,266,052

98.86%

3,974,462

1.14%

349,240,514

74.72%

472,631

 

Notes:

 

1.         Votes "for" include discretionary votes.

2.         Percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.

3.         Issued share capital at meeting date: 467,420,023.

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 https://investors.petsathome.com/investors/

 

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 11 July 2024, 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:

Lesley Lazenby

Legal Director & Company Secretary

Pets at Home Group Plc

0161 486 6688

 

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