Card Factory PLC Result of AGM (9935P)

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RNS Number : 9935P

Card Factory PLC

23 June 2022

23 June 2022

Card Factory plc

(the "Company" or "Card Factory")

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

Card Factory, the UK's leading specialist retailer of greeting cards, gifts, wrap and bags, announces that all of the resolutions set out in Part II of the Notice of AGM ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 22 May 2021 were passed by way of a show of hands at its AGM held earlier today.

Details of the proxy voting instructions, lodged prior to the meeting, are set out below:

 
 
                 Resolution             Votes for     % of      Votes against     % of      Votes withheld 
                                                      votes                       votes 
                                                      cast                        cast 
       Approve 
 1.     Annual Report                 206,085,875    99.98%            47,493     0.02%             19,355 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
       Re-elect 
 2.     Paul Moody                    197,541,763    95.84%         8,581,232     4.16%             29,728 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
 3.    Re-elect Darcy Willson-Rymer   206,069,386    99.97%            53,610     0.03%             29,727 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
       Re-elect 
 4.     Kristian Lee                  206,058,781    99.97%            64,002     0.03%             29,940 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
       Re-elect 
 5.     Octavia Morley                195,944,686    95.06%        10,190,716     4.94%             17,321 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
       Re-elect 
 6.     Roger Whiteside               200,288,677    97.17%         5,832,856     2.83%             31,190 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
       Re-elect 
 7.     Nathan Lane                   164,615,081    99.97%            52,580     0.03%         41,485,062 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
 8.    Elect Robert McWilliam         206,021,844    99.95%            99,689     0.05%             31,190 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
       Approve 
 9.     Remuneration Report           169,968,698    83.30%        34,070,430    16.70%          2,113,595 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
 10.   Re-appoint auditor             202,820,021    98.39%         3,317,881     1.61%             14,821 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
 11.   Remuneration of auditor        202,859,327    98.41%         3,277,163     1.59%             16,233 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
       Authority to allot 
 12.    shares                        205,954,568    99.91%           190,028     0.09%              8,127 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
       Authority to disapply 
 13.    pre-emption rights            206,030,709    99.95%           109,566     0.05%             12,448 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
       Additional authority 
        to disapply pre-emption 
 14.    rights                        206,011,136    99.94%           129,676     0.06%             11,911 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
       Authority to purchase 
 15.    own shares                    206,073,234    99.97%            70,812     0.03%              8,677 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
       Authority to call 
        general meetings on 
 16.    14 days' notice               205,248,516    99.57%           886,122     0.43%             18,085 
      -----------------------------  ------------  --------  ----------------  --------  ----------------- 
 

Notes:

1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "Votes for" total.

2. "Votes withheld" are not votes in law and do not count in the number of votes counted for or against a resolution.

3. Valid proxy appointments were made in respect of 205,906,496 shares representing 60.14% of the issued share capital

4. In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, the full text of the special business resolutions passed will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM .

5. A copy of this announcement will shortly be available on the Company's investor relations website at www.cardfactoryinvestors.com

6. As at 22 June 2022, the Company had 342,366,344 ordinary shares of GBP0.01 each in issue with voting rights. No shares are held in treasury.

7. Resolutions 1 to 12 (inclusive) were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to 16 (inclusive) were passed as special resolutions.

8. As detailed in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, shareholders were invited to submit to the Company any questions they would otherwise have asked at the AGM. No such questions were submitted.

Name of authorised Company official responsible for making this notification:

Ciaran Stone, Company Secretary

01924 839150

 
 Enquiries: 
 Card Factory Plc                   Tel: [phone] 
 Darcy Willson-Rymer, Chief Executive Officer 
 Kristian Lee, Chief Financial Officer 
 Tulchan Communications             Tel: +44 (0) 207 
  James Macey White / Alison Lygo    353 4200 
 
 

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