Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7105V

McColl's Retail Group plc

20 April 2016

McColl's Retail Group plc (the "Company")

Results of AGM

McColl's Retail Group plc announces that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held yesterday 19 April 2016, all the Resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting were duly passed on a poll. The results of the poll for each resolution were as follows:

Resolution	For (No. of shares)	For (%)	Against (No. of shares)	Against (%)	Votes Withheld (No. of shares)	TOTAL votes cast (excluding withheld)
1. To receive the Annual Report and Accounts.	80,346,310	99.98	18,815	0.02	4,918,589	80,365,125
2. To receive the Directors' Remuneration Report.	80,021,565	99.58	339,052	0.42	4,923,097	80,360,617
3. To declare a final dividend.	80,346,310	99.98	18,815	0.02	4,918,589	80,365,125
4. To re-elect Sharon Brown as a Director.	79,301,269	98.68	1,063,734	1.32	4,918,589	80,365,003
5. To re-elect Georgina Harvey as a Director.	80,133,073	99.71	231,930	0.29	4,918,589	80,365,003
6. To re-elect James Lancaster as a Director.	76,918,490	95.71	3,446,635	4.29	4,918,589	80,365,125
7. To re-elect Jonathan Miller as a Director.	78,277,967	93.95	5,037,158	6.05	1,968,589	83,315,125
8. To re-elect David Thomas as a Director.	78,288,621	97.42	2,076,504	2.58	4,918,589	80,365,125
9. To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as auditors of the Company.	78,976,179	98.27	1,388,946	1.73	4,918,589	80,365,125
10 To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditors' remuneration.	79,500,951	98.92	864,174	1.08	4,918,589	80,365,125
11. To authorise the Directors to allot ordinary shares.	80,336,145	99.96	28,980	0.04	4,918,589	80,365,125
12. To authorise the Company to make political donations.	80,241,321	99.85	121,304	0.15	4,920,589	80,362,661
13. To disapply pre-emption rights.*	79,789,396	96.91	2,540,391	3.09	2,953,927	82,329,787
14. To authorise the Company to purchase its own ordinary shares.*	82,775,901	99.35	539,224	0.65	1,968,589	83,315,125
15. To, subject to confirmation of the Court, cancel the Company's share premium account.*	80,315,383	99.95	43,815	0.05	4,924,516	80,359,198
16. To authorise the Directors to hold general meetings on not less than 14 clear days' notice.*	79,924,091	99.45	439,034	0.55	4,920,589	80,363,125

*Special Resolution

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of all resolutions passed as Special Resolutions at the Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.

Details of the proxy votes will shortly be available on the Company's website: www.mccolls.co.uk

NOTES:
1.	All resolutions were passed.
2.	Proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman of the AGM have been included in the "For" total for the appropriate resolution.
3.	Votes "For" and "Against" any resolution are expressed as a percentage of votes validly cast for that resolution.
4.	A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentage of shares voted "For" or "Against" any resolution nor in the calculation of the proportion of "Total issued share capital instructed" for any resolution.
5.	The number of shares in issue on 17 April 2016 was 104,712 042 (the "Share Capital") and at that time, the Company did not hold any shares in treasury.
6.	The proportion of "Total issued share capital instructed" for any resolution is the total of votes validly cast for that resolution (i.e. the total votes "For" and "Against" that resolution) expressed as a percentage of the Share Capital.
7.	The full text of the resolutions passed at the AGM can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available on the Company's website at www.mccolls.co.uk