ASOS PLC Result of AGM (8989U)

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RNS Number : 8989U

ASOS PLC

27 November 2019

27 November 2019

ASOS Plc

Result of AGM

Following the Annual General Meeting held today, ASOS Plc announces the result of the poll vote for each resolution as follows:

 
 RESOLUTIONS                                 FOR          % FOR   AGAINST      % AGAINST   WITHHELD* 
 1. To approve the Annual 
  Report and Accounts for 
  the financial year ended 
  31 August 2019                             74,082,741   99.99   4            0.01        134,580 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 2. To approve the Directors' 
  Remuneration Report for 
  the financial year ended 
  31 August 2019                             63,419,733   85.45   10,795,497   14.55       2,095 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 3. To re-elect Adam Crozier 
  as a Director of the Company               73,415,061   98.92   800,565      1.08        1,699 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 4. To re-elect Nick Beighton 
  as a Director of the Company               74,200,440   99.98   15,186       0.02        1,699 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 5. To elect Mat Dunn as 
  a Director of the Company                  73,942,198   99.63   273,411      0.37        1,716 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 6. To re-elect Rita Clifton 
  as a Director of the Company               73,931,365   99.62   284,261      0.38        1,699 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 7. To re-elect Ian Dyson 
  as a Director of the Company               73,886,507   99.56   329,119      0.44        1,699 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 8. To elect Mai Fyfield 
  as a Director of the Company               74,203,786   99.98   11,823       0.02        1,716 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 9. To elect Karen Geary 
  as a Director of the Company               74,035,624   99.76   179,985      0.24        1,716 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 10. To elect Luke Jensen 
  as a Director of the Company               74,203,749   99.98   11,860       0.02        1,716 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 11. To re-elect Hilary 
  Riva as a Director of the 
  Company                                    73,931,480   99.62   284,146      0.38        1,699 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 12. To re-elect Nick Robertson 
  as a Director of the Company               74,200,440   99.98   15,186       0.02        1,699 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 13. To re-appoint PriceWaterhouseCoopers 
  LLP as auditors of the 
  Company                                    74,090,890   99.83   126,414      0.17        21 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 14. To authorise the Directors 
  to determine the amount 
  of the auditors' remuneration              74,211,953   99.99   3,366        0.01        2,006 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 15. To authorise the Directors 
  to allot Ordinary Shares 
  in the Company                             73,790,265   99.43   425,054      0.57        2,006 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 16. To authorise the Directors 
  to disapply pre-emption 
  rights**                                   73,967,037   99.67   248,265      0.33        2,023 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 17. To authorise the Company 
  to make market purchases 
  of own shares**                            74,071,891   99.81   142,869      0.19        2,565 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ---------- 
 18. To authorise the Company 
  to make political donations                72,686,429   98.32   1,238,294    1.68        292,602 
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*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the votes for or against a resolution

** Passed as a special resolution.

Full details of the voting will be available shortly on the Company's website: www.asosplc.com

For further information

ASOS plc Tel: [phone]

Nick Beighton, Chief Executive

Alison Lygo, Head of Investor Relations

Website: www.asosplc.com/investors

   Headland Consultancy                                                            Tel: [phone] 

Susanna Voyle/Stephen Malthouse/Lindsay Dunford

   JPMorgan Cazenove (Nominated Advisor)                           Tel: [phone] 

Michael Wentworth-Stanley/Bill Hutchings

Numis Securities Tel: [phone]

Alex Ham/Luke Bordewich/Tom Ballard

Background note

ASOS is an online retailer for fashion-loving 20-somethings around the world, with a purpose to give its customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be. Through its market-leading app and mobile/desktop web experience, available in ten languages and in over 200 markets, ASOS customers can shop a curated edit of 85,000 products, sourced from 800 of the best global and local third-party brands and its mix of fashion-led in-house labels - ASOS Design, ASOS Edition, ASOS 4505 and Collusion. ASOS aims to give all of its customers a truly frictionless experience, with an ever-greater number of different payment methods and hundreds of local deliveries and returns options, including Next-Day and Same-Day Delivery, dispatched from state-of-the-art fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Germany.

ASOS's websites attracted 187.4m visits during August 2019 (August 2018: 157.2m) and as at 31 August 2019 had 20.3m active customers(1) (31 August 2018: 18.4m), of which 6.4m were located in the UK and 13.9m were located in international territories (31 August 2018: 6.0m in the UK and 12.4m internationally).

(1) Defined as having shopped in the last twelve months as at 31 August

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