Result of AGM

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Card Factory PLC
28 July 2021
 

28 July 2021

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, dressings and gifts, announces that all of the resolutions set out in Part II of the Notice of AGM ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 10 June 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

199,090,125

99.57%

867,997

0.43%

66,223

2.

Re-elect

Paul Moody

197,335,404

98.69%

2,615,125

1.31%

73,816

3.

Elect Darcy Willson-Rymer

199,927,259

99.97%

51,622

0.03%

45,464

4.

Re-elect

Kristian Lee

199,887,880

99.96%

76,658

0.04%

39,807

5.

Re-elect

Octavia Morley

199,914,364

99.96%

70,174

0.04%

39,807

6.

Re-elect

David Stead

197,290,249

98.65%

2,693,039

1.35%

41,057

7.

Re-elect

Paul McCrudden

199,918,752

99.97%

64,536

0.03%

41,057

8.

Re-elect

Roger Whiteside

199,933,142

99.97%

50,146

0.03%

41,057

9.

Re-elect

Nathan Lane

159,827,313

99.97%

52,257

0.03%

40,144,775

10.

Approve

Remuneration Report

196,343,511

98.19%

3,618,099

1.81%

62,735

11.

Adopt Remuneration Policy

189,960,737

94.98%

10,033,932

5.02%

29,676

12.

Re-appoint auditor

199,029,908

99.52%

958,935

0.48%

35,502

13.

Remuneration of auditor

199,890,163

99.95%

100,837

0.05%

33,345

14.

Authority to allot shares

199,912,623

99.95%

103,966

0.05%

7,756

15.

Authority to disapply pre-emption rights

199,907,548

99.97%

63,727

0.03%

53,070

16.

Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights

199,039,612

99.53%

931,663

0.47%

53,070

17.

Authority to purchase own shares

199,099,870

99.55%

895,756

0.45%

28,719

18.

Authority to call general meetings on 14 days' notice

199,543,523

99.78%

447,659

0.22%

33,163

19.

Adopt Articles of Association

199,901,211

99.97%

65,725

0.03%

57,409

 

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 200,024,345 shares representing 58.51% 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 26 July 2021, the Company had 341,866,891 ordinary shares of £0.01 each in issue with voting rights. No shares are held in treasury.

 

7.  Resolutions 1 to 14 (inclusive) were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 19 (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. Subject to any regulatory restrictions, the Board will publish a summary of responses to relevant questions received on the Card Factory investor website at  www.cardfactoryinvestors.com shortly.  

 

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 / Elizabeth Snow

 

Tel: +44 (0) 207 353 4200


 

 

 

 

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