Company Announcements

Mothercare plc Annual General Meeting 13 October 2022: Results

Annual General Meeting

At the annual general meeting held at 11.00am on 13 October 2022, the resolutions before the meeting were passed.

The following proxy votes had been received by the Company in respect of the resolutions:

Resolutions 12 to 14 were Special Resolutions.

	Resolution	Votes For	%	Votes Against	%	Votes total	% ISC	Votes withheld*
1	To receive the annual accounts, directors’ report, strategic report, directors’ remuneration report and auditor’s report	437,107,105	100.00	4,523	0.00	437,111,628	77.52	25,321
2	To approve the directors’ remuneration report (including the directors’ remuneration policy)	437,069,890	99.99	52,922	0.01	437,122,812	77.53	14,137
3	To re-elect Clive Whiley as a director	437,087,776	99.99	36,182	0.01	437,123,958	77.53	12,991
4	To re-elect Andrew Cook as a director	437,090,877	99.99	34,581	0.01	437,125,458	77.53	11,491
5	To re-elect Gillian Kent as a director	437,083,401	99.99	42,057	0.01	437,125,458	77.53	11,491
6	To re-elect Mark Newton-Jones as a director	427,996,370	97.91	9,127,314	2.09	437,123,684	77.53	13,265
7	To re-elect Brian Small as a director	437,088,820	99.99	34,405	0.01	437,123,225	77.53	13,724
8	To appoint auditors	437,096,703	99.99	27,793	0.01	437,124,496	77.53	12,453
9	Auditors remuneration	437,108,808	100.00	2,926	0.00	437,111,734	77.52	25,215
10	Authority for the directors to allot shares	436,937,617	99.96	186,958	0.04	437,124,575	77.53	12,374
11	To authorise political donations by the company and its subsidiaries	427,767,325	97.86	9,344,197	2.14	437,111,522	77.52	25,427
12	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	437,090,121	99.99	33,100	0.01	437,123,221	77.53	13,728
13	Authority to further disapply pre-emption rights	437,090,412	99.99	33,100	0.01	437,123,512	77.53	13,437
14	Authority to purchase own shares	437,103,692	99.99	21,904	0.01	437,125,596	77.53	11,353

Notes
* A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of votes ‘for’ and ‘against’ each resolution

As at 11 October 2022, the Company’s issued share capital and total voting rights consisted of 563,836,626 ordinary shares each carrying voting rights. There are no shares in treasury. As a result, proxy votes representing approximately 77.5% of the voting capital were cast for the AGM.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting on the Company’s website, www.mothercareplc.com.

Further details:        

Investor and analyst enquiries to:
Mothercare plc                                Email: investorrelations@mothercare.com
Clive Whiley, Chairman
Andrew Cook, Chief Financial Officer

Numis Securities Limited                 Tel: 020 7260 1000
(Nominated Advisor & Joint Corporate Broker)         
Luke Bordewich
Henry Slater

finnCap (Joint Corporate Broker)        Tel: 020 7220 0500
Christopher Raggett

Media enquiries to:
MHP Communications                        Email: mothercare@mhpc.com
Simon Hockridge                        Tel: 07709 496125
Tim Rowntree