Result of AGM

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Ocado Group PLC
15 May 2015
 

RESULT OF AGM

OCADO GROUP PLC

15 May 2015

 

Ocado Group plc

Annual General Meeting 2015 Results

 

The Annual General Meeting of Ocado Group plc (the "Company") was held at Peterborough Court, 133 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2BB on Friday, 15 May 2015 at 11.00am.

 

All resolutions were decided on a poll and all resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting were passed by shareholders. The full text of each resolution is contained in the notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available on the Company's website www.ocadogroup.com (with each resolution number below corresponding to the resolution number in the notice).

 

The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions put before the Annual General Meeting and the number of votes withheld were as follows:

 

Resolutions

For

Against

Total Votes

Votes Withheld

Votes

%

Votes

%

Ordinary Resolutions

1

To receive the Annual Report and Accounts

474,905,159

99.99%

29,207

0.01%

476,384,487

1,450,121

2

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

377,215,710

80.61%

90,709,506

19.39%

476,384,487

8,459,271

3

To re-appoint Lord Rose

473,345,445

99.36%

3,039,042

0.64%

476,384,487

0

4

To re-appoint David Grigson

474,115,486

99.78%

1,030,883

0.22%

476,384,487

1,238,118

5

To re-appoint Tim Steiner

474,808,237

99.67%

1,576,250

0.33%

476,384,487

0

6

To re-appoint Duncan Tatton-Brown

474,889,637

99.69%

1,494,850

0.31%

476,384,487

0

7

To re-appoint Neill Abrams

474,400,008

99.58%

1,984,479

0.42%

476,384,487

0

8

To re-appoint Mark Richardson

474,889,637

99.69%

1,494,850

0.31%

476,384,487

0

9

To re-appoint Jörn Rausing

436,713,617

91.74%

39,320,870

8.26%

476,384,487

350,000

10

To re-appoint Robert Gorrie

437,114,728

91.82%

38,919,759

8.18%

476,384,487

350,000

11

To re-appoint Ruth Anderson

474,648,469

99.64%

1,736,018

0.36%

476,384,487

0

12

To re-appoint Douglas McCallum

472,739,021

99.27%

3,489,634

0.73%

476,384,487

155,832

13

To re-appoint Alex Mahon

475,848,210

99.89%

536,277

0.11%

476,384,487

0

14

To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors

474,304,664

99.56%

2,079,822

0.44%

476,384,486

0

15

To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors'

remuneration

476,301,822

99.98%

81,400

0.02%

476,384,487

1,265

16

Authority for political donations and political expenditure

461,416,415

99.72%

1,294,636

0.28%

476,384,487

13,673,436

17

Authority to allot shares

374,539,100

78.62%

101,845,387

21.38%

476,384,487

0

Special Resolutions

18

Authority to disapply pre-emption rights

462,874,741

97.16%

13,509,746

2.84%

476,384,487

0

19

Authority to purchase own shares

476,294,787

99.98%

85,700

0.02%

476,384,487

4,000

20

Notice of general meetings

452,636,987

95.02%

23,747,500

4.98%

476,384,487

0

 

The Company notes that, although all of the Resolutions have been passed, there was a significant vote against Resolution 17. The Company has already taken a number of actions to understand any shareholder concerns regarding its governance arrangements. The Company invited its twelve largest shareholders to meet with the Chairman in the period between the Notice of Meeting and the Annual General Meeting. The Chairman met with five such accepting shareholders prior to the Annual General Meeting (while the Company Secretary met separately with one of these shareholders). In discussing proxy voting intentions with its largest shareholders in advance of the meeting, the Company was advised of a shareholders' voting policy which differs to that of the Company, other shareholders and the guidance issued by the Investment Association (formally issued by the Association of British Insurers) with regards to authority to allot which meant that they had opposed Resolution 17. The Company expects to keep its policy on this Resolution under review and will seek to ascertain the views of certain other shareholders opposed to the Resolution, as appropriate.

 

Notes:

 

(i)         Votes 'withheld' are not votes under English law and so have not been included in the calculation of whether a resolution is carried. Percentages have been rounded to two decimal places.

 

(ii)        As at 7.00am on 15 May 2015, the Company's issued share capital was 623,116,138 ordinary shares of 2p each admitted to trading. The Company does not hold any ordinary shares in treasury. Each ordinary share carries the right to one vote in relation to all circumstances at general meetings of the Company. Of these issued ordinary shares: (1) 515,951 shares are held by Yorkshire Building Society, the trustee for the Company's employee Share Incentive Plan, who must vote, at the request of a participant, in respect of ordinary shares held by the trustee on behalf of that participant; (2) 452,284 shares are held by Greenwood Nominees Limited, who has waived its right to exercise voting rights and to receive dividends in respect of these 452,284 ordinary shares; and (3) 34,810,561 shares are held by Greenwood Nominees Limited on behalf of Appleby Trust (Jersey) Limited, the independent company which is the trustee of Ocado's employee benefit trust (the "EBT Trustee"). The EBT Trustee has waived its right to exercise its voting rights and to receive dividends in respect of these 34,810,561 ordinary shares, although it may vote in respect of 33,881,544 ordinary shares which have vested under the joint share ownership scheme and remain in the trust as at 15 May 2015, at the request of a participant. Excluding the 35,262,845 ordinary shares held by Greenwood Nominees Limited, Ocado has shares in issue with aggregate voting rights of 587,853,293.

 

This announcement is made pursuant to the requirements of Listing Rules 9.6.2 and 9.6.18. In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of resolutions 16 to 20 (as set out in the notice of Annual General Meeting), being the resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting not concerning ordinary business, has been submitted today to the Financial Conduct Authority's national storage mechanism. This document will be available for viewing at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

A copy of the Annual General Meeting results will be available on Ocado's website:  www.ocadogroup.com.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Company Secretary

Neill Abrams

Ocado Group plc

Titan Court

3 Bishops Square

Hatfield Business Park

Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9NE

+ 44 1707 228 000

company.secretary@ocado.com  

 

 


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