Results of the 2024 Annual General Meeting

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Resolutions	For and at discretion		Against		Votes Withheld	Total
Resolutions	Number	%	Number	%	Votes Withheld	Total
1. To receive the audited accounts of the Company for the year ended 29 February 2024, together with the Report of the Directors and the report of the Auditor thereon.	58,360,431	99.99%	26	0.01%	44,227	58,404,684
2. To approve the Annual Statement by the Chair of the Remuneration Committee and the Annual Report on Directors' Remuneration for the year ended 29 February 2024.	55,898,761	95.72%	2,497,536	4.28%	7,356	58,403,653
3. To declare a final dividend of 10.99p per Ordinary share.	58,403,979	99.99%	63	0.01%	642	58,404,684
4. To re-elect John Bason as a Director of the Company.	57,664,021	98.75%	729,305	1.25%	11,358	58,404,684
5. To re-elect Nigel Newton as a Director of the Company.	57,515,555	98.49%	880,080	1.51%	9,049	58,404,684
6. To re-elect Leslie-Ann Reed as a Director of the Company.	56,381,584	96.55%	2,011,742	3.45%	11,358	58,404,684
7. To re-elect Penny Scott-Bayfield as a Director of the Company.	58,375,531	99.97%	17,795	0.03%	11,358	58,404,684
8. To re-elect Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey as a Director of the Company.	57,581,327	98.61%	811,999	1.39%	11,358	58,404,684
9. WITHDRAWN	-	-	-	-	-	-
10. To re-appoint Crowe U.K. LLP as Auditor of the Company.	58,394,394	99.99%	6,273	0.01%	4,017	58,404,684
11. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration.	58,398,927	99.99%	3,842	0.01%	1,915	58,404,684
12. To authorise the Directors to allot shares.	58,371,003	99.95%	27,939	0.05%	5,742	58,404,684
13. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights.	57,490,865	98.45%	905,592	1.55%	8,227	58,404,684
14. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights regarding acquisition/investment.	51,887,964	88.85%	6,512,063	11.15%	4,657	58,404,684
15. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares.	57,775,824	99.98%	11,680	0.02%	617,180	58,404,684

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Maya Abu-Deeb, Group General Counsel & Company Secretary	maya.abu-deeb@bloomsbury.com
Hudson Sandler	+44 (0) 20 7796 4133
Dan de Belder / Hattie Dreyfus / Emily Brooker	bloomsbury@hudsonsandler.com

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