Result of AGM

Card Factory PLC

22 June 2023

 

22 June 2023

Card Factory plc

(the "Company" or "cardfactory")

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

cardfactory, the UK's leading specialist retailer of greeting cards, gifts and celebration essentials, announces that all of the resolutions set out in Part II of the Notice of AGM ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 19 May 2023 were passed on a poll at the annual general meeting held today.

Details of the aggregate poll votes submitted on the resolutions are set out below:

	Resolution	Votes for	% of votes cast	Votes against	% of votes cast	Votes withheld
1.	Approve the Annual Report	220,609,650	99.99%	20,908	0.01%	370,811
2.	Re-elect Paul Moody	177,047,065	92.49%	14,375,661	7.51%	29,576,393
3.	Re-elect Darcy Willson-Rymer	220,678,458	99.86%	305,220	0.14%	15,441
4.	Elect Matthias Seeger	220,669,080	99.86%	312,598	0.14%	17,441
5.	Re-elect Roger Whiteside	216,225,887	97.85%	4,745,979	2.15%	27,253
6.	Re-elect Nathan Lane	177,531,572	99.81%	340,472	0.19%	43,127,075
7.	Re-elect Robert McWilliam	216,262,542	97.87%	4,707,574	2.13%	29,003
8.	Elect Indira Thambiah	220,828,253	99.93%	144,863	0.07%	26,003
9.	Approve the Remuneration Report	220,865,634	99.94%	126,084	0.06%	9,651
10.	Appoint auditor	220,777,992	99.91%	209,010	0.09%	14,367
11.	Remuneration of auditor	220,735,941	99.89%	253,279	0.11%	12,149
12.	Authority to allot shares	220,621,807	99.83%	377,011	0.17%	2,551
13.	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	220,432,890	99.81%	428,977	0.19%	139,502
14.	Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	220,427,890	99.80%	435,227	0.20%	138,252
15.	Authority to purchase own shares	220,953,701	99.98%	44,567	0.02%	3,101
16.	Authority to call general meetings on 14 days' notice	220,354,695	99.71%	641,514	0.29%	2,910

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 poll cards were made in respect of 221,001,659 shares representing 64.48% 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 2023, the Company had 342,757,296 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                                                                       via Teneo (below)

Darcy Willson-Rymer, Chief Executive Officer

Matthias Seeger, Chief Financial Officer

Teneo                                                                                         [phone]

James Macey White / Jo Blackshaw                                           [e-mail]

 

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