Results of Annual General Meeting

Pets At Home Group Plc
06 July 2023
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 6 July 2023

PETS AT HOME GROUP PLC: Results of Annual General Meeting 2023

 

Pets at Home Group Plc ("Company") gives notice that at its Annual General Meeting held on 6 July 2023 at Pets at Home, Chester House, Stanley Green Trading Estate, Handforth, Cheshire, SK9 3RN at 11.00 a.m., a poll was taken on all resolutions put to the meeting.  All resolutions were passed by the members entitled to vote.

The results of the poll incorporating proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting are set out below.

 

 

VOTES FOR¹

%²

VOTES AGAINST

%

VOTES TOTAL

% OF ISC³

VOTES WITHHELD4

Ordinary Resolutions








1

To receive the directors report and accounts for the year ended 30 March 2023

362,154,848

100.00

200

0.00

362,155,048

75.03

745,677

2

To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 30 March 2023

346,222,646

95.41

16,661,771

4.59

362,884,417

75.18

16,308

3

To approve the directors' remuneration policy, as set on pages 65 to 75 of the 2023 Annual Report

327,218,238

90.17

35,658,683

9.83

362,876,921

75.18

23,804

4

To declare a final dividend of 8.3 pence per ordinary share for the year ended 30 March 2023

362,890,089

100.00

682

0.00

362,890,771

75.19

9,954

5

To re-elect the following individuals as directors








5A

Lyssa McGowan

360,880,299

99.45

1,990,585

0.55

362,870,884

75.18

29,841

5B

Mike Iddon

359,748,707

99.14

3,129,668

0.86

362,878,375

75.18

22,350

5C

Ian Burke

349,908,835

96.43

12,967,273

3.57

362,876,108

75.18

24,617

5D

Zarin Patel

358,987,146

98.93

3,889,333

1.07

362,876,479

75.18

24,246

5E

Dennis Millard

355,225,027

97.89

7,651,453

2.11

362,876,480

75.18

24,245

5F

Susan Dawson

357,314,375

98.47

5,562,104

1.53

362,876,479

75.18

24,246

6A

To elect Roger Burnley as a director

362,865,721

100.00

10,387

0.00

362,876,108

75.18

24,617

6B

To elect Natalie-Jane Macdonald as director

362,864,616

100.00

9,364

0.00

362,873,980

75.18

26,745

7

To reappoint KPMG LLP as the auditor

283,953,151

78.25

78,926,639

21.75

362,879,790

75.18

20,935

8

To authorise the directors to set the auditor's fees

361,468,946

99.61

1,412,515

0.39

362,881,461

75.18

19,264

9

To give the directors authority to allot shares

346,200,265

95.40

16,685,881

4.60

362,886,146

75.18

14,579

10

To authorise the Company and its Subsidiaries to make political donations

357,916,589

98.69

4,746,265

1.31

362,662,854

75.14

237,871

Special Resolutions








11

To disapply pre-emption rights

354,814,755

99.96

139,597

0.04

354,954,352

73.54

7,946,373

12

Additional disapplication of pre-emption rights

351,464,645

98.90

3,912,707

1.10

355,377,352

73.63

7,523,373

13

To authorise the Company to buy its own shares

359,163,160

99.08

3,344,653

0.92

362,507,813

75.11

392,912

14

To authorise short notice general meetings

356,669,479

98.29

6,217,296

1.71

362,886,775

75.18

13,950

 

Notes:

 

1.         Votes "for" include discretionary votes.

2.         Percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.

3.         Issued share capital at meeting date: 482,662,864.

4.         A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "for" and "against" a resolution.

 

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website https://investors.petsathome.com/investors/

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, a copy of the resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, passed by the Company at the Annual General Meeting held on 6 July 2023, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

 

For further information contact:

Lucy Williams

Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary

Pets at Home Group Plc

0161 486 6688

 

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