Result of AGM
Updated : 11:37
1 December 2017
ASOS Plc (the 'Company')
Result of AGM
ASOS Plc is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions, as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, were duly passed by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 30 November 2017, as set out in the table below.
RESOLUTIONS | FOR | % FOR | AGAINST | % AGAINST | WITHHELD* |
1. To approve the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 August 2017 | 62,126,890 | 99.54% | 290,159 | 0.46% | 124,578 |
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 August 2017 | 59,475,211 | 98.10% | 1,150,482 | 1.90% | 1,915,934 |
3. To re-elect Brian McBride as a Director of the Company | 62,367,164 | 99.72% | 174,318 | 0.28% | 145 |
4. To re-elect Nick Beighton as a Director of the Company | 62,339,252 | 99.76% | 149,279 | 0.24% | 53,096 |
5. To re-elect Helen Ashton as a Director of the Company | 62,234,651 | 99.59% | 253,880 | 0.41% | 53,096 |
6. To re-elect Ian Dyson as a Director of the Company | 62,199,408 | 99.45% | 342,074 | 0.55% | 145 |
7. To re-elect Rita Clifton as a Director of the Company | 62,367,858 | 99.72% | 173,624 | 0.28% | 145 |
8. To re-elect Hilary Riva as a Director of the Company | 62,255,245 | 99.54% | 286,237 | 0.46% | 145 |
9. To re-elect Nick Robertson as a Director of the Company | 62,259,756 | 99.63% | 228,920 | 0.37% | 52,951 |
10. To re-appoint PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company | 62,208,305 | 99.88% | 77,195 | 0.12% | 256,127 |
11. To authorise the Directors to determine the amount of the auditors' remuneration | 62,541,482 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 145 |
12. To authorise the Directors to allot Ordinary Shares in the Company | 62,453,061 | 99.86% | 88,393 | 0.14% | 173 |
13. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights** | 62,168,672 | 99.40% | 372,782 | 0.60% | 173 |
14. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of own shares** | 61,730,356 | 98.76% | 775,371 | 1.24% | 35,900 |
*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 |
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Greg Feehely, Director of Investor Relations | Tel: 020 7756 1000 |
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Instinctif Partners |
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Matthew Smallwood/Justine Warren
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J.P. Morgan Cazenove |
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Michael Wentworth-Stanley/Caroline Thomlinson | Tel: 020 7742 4000 |
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Numis Securities |
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Alex Ham | Tel: 020 7260 1000 |
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Background note
ASOS is a global fashion destination for 20-somethings, selling cutting-edge fashion and offering a wide variety of fashion-related content, making ASOS.com the hub of a thriving fashion community. ASOS sells over 85,000 branded and own-label products through localised mobile and web experiences, delivering from fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Europe to almost every country in the world.
ASOS tailors the mix of own-label, global and local brands sold through each of eight local language websites: UK, US, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia and Russia.
ASOS's websites attracted 135.7m visits during August 2017 (August 2016: 117.5m) and as at 31 August 2017 had 15.4m active customers1 (31 August 2016: 12.4m), of which 5.2m were located in the UK and 10.2m were located in international territories (31 August 2016: 4.7m in the UK and 7.7m internationally).
1 Defined as having shopped in the last twelve months as at 31 August 2017
This information is provided by RNS