ASOS PLC Result of AGM (6743G)

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RNS Number : 6743G

ASOS PLC

26 November 2020

26 November 2020

ASOS Plc

Result of AGM

Following the Annual General Meeting held today, 26 November 2020, ASOS Plc (the "Company") 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 2020                             84,068,448   99.99   1,588        0.01        251,377 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 2. To approve the Directors' 
  Remuneration Report for 
  the financial year ended 
  31 August 2020                             60,188,026   81.99   13,224,901   18.01         10,908,386 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 3. To re-elect Adam Crozier 
  as a Director of the Company               79,525,628   94.31   4,795,278    5.69        407 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 4. To re-elect Nick Beighton 
  as a Director of the Company               83,022,670   99.96   36,776       0.04        1,261,867 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 5. To re-elect Mat Dunn 
  as a Director of the Company               82,482,250   97.82   1,838,856    2.18        207 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 6. To re-elect Ian Dyson 
  as a Director of the Company               75,603,414   89.66   8,717,492    10.34       407 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 7. To re-elect Mai Fyfield 
  as a Director of the Company               81,386,519   96.52   2,934,387    3.48        407 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 8. To re-elect Karen Geary 
  as a Director of the Company               76,389,811   90.59   7,931,095    9.41        407 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 9. To re-elect Luke Jensen 
  as a Director of the Company               83,008,495   98.44   1,312,411    1.56        407 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 10. To re-elect Nick Robertson 
  as a Director of the Company               82,933,609   98.35   1,387,456    1.65        247 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 11. To elect Eugenia Ulasewicz 
  as a Director of the Company               82,422,442   97.75   1,898,464    2.25        407 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 12. To re-appoint PriceWaterhouseCoopers 
  LLP as auditors of the 
  Company                                    84,188,943   99.86   121,025      0.14        11,345 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 13. To authorise the Directors 
  to determine the amount 
  of the auditors' remuneration              84,305,057   99.99   4,816        0.01        11,440 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 14. To authorise the Directors 
  to allot Ordinary Shares 
  in the Company                             84,048,126   99.68   272,836      0.32        351 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 15. To authorise the Directors 
  to disapply pre-emption 
  rights**                                   84,283,480   99.96   37,091       0.04        742 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 16. To authorise the Company 
  to make market purchases 
  of own shares**                            84,145,115   99.83   139,856      0.17        36,342 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 17. To authorise the Company 
  to adopt new Articles of 
  Association of the Company**               84,317,387   99.99   3,102        0.01        824 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 18. To authorise the Company 
  to make political donations                82,892,734   98.43   1,321,503    1.57        107,176 
                                            -----------  ------  -----------  ----------  ------------- 
 

*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 and a recording of the meeting will be available shortly on the Company's website: www.asosplc.com

For further information:

ASOS plc Tel: [phone]

Nick Beighton, Chief Executive Officer

Mat Dunn, Chief Financial Officer

Alison Lygo, Investor Relations

Website: www.asosplc.com/investors

   Headland Consultancy                                                             Tel: [phone] 

Susanna Voyle/Stephen Malthouse/ Fay Rajaratnam

   JPMorgan Cazenove (Nominated Advisor)                            Tel: [phone] 

Bill Hutchings/Christopher Wood

Numis Securities Tel: [phone]

Alex Ham/Luke Bordewich

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 850 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' websites attracted 233.4m visits during August 2020 (August 2019: 187.4m) and as at 31 August 2020 had 23.4m active customers (1) (31 August 2019: 20.3m), of which 7.1m were located in the UK and 16.3m were located in international territories (31 August 2019: 6.4m in the UK and 13.9m internationally).

(1) Defined as having shopped in the last 12 months as at 31 August

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