Result of AGM

Released : 22 Jun 2023

RNS Number : 6402DCard Factory PLC22 June 2023

22 June 2023

Card Factory plc

(the "Company" or "cardfactory")

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

cardfactory, the UK's leading specialist retailer of greeting cards, gifts and celebration essentials, announces that all of the resolutions set out in Part II of the Notice of AGM ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 19 May 2023 were passed on a poll at the annual general meeting held today.

Details of the aggregate poll votes submitted on the resolutions are set out below:

Resolution

Votes for

% of

votes

cast

Votes against

% of

votes cast

Votes withheld

1.

Approve the Annual Report

220,609,650

99.99%

20,908

0.01%

370,811

2.

Re-elect Paul Moody

177,047,065

92.49%

14,375,661

7.51%

29,576,393

3.

Re-elect Darcy Willson-Rymer

220,678,458

99.86%

305,220

0.14%

15,441

4.

Elect Matthias Seeger

220,669,080

99.86%

312,598

0.14%

17,441

5.

Re-elect Roger Whiteside

216,225,887

97.85%

4,745,979

2.15%

27,253

6.

Re-elect Nathan Lane

177,531,572

99.81%

340,472

0.19%

43,127,075

7.

Re-elect Robert McWilliam

216,262,542

97.87%

4,707,574

2.13%

29,003

8.

Elect Indira Thambiah

220,828,253

99.93%

144,863

0.07%

26,003

9.

Approve the Remuneration Report

220,865,634

99.94%

126,084

0.06%

9,651

10.

Appoint auditor

220,777,992

99.91%

209,010

0.09%

14,367

11.

Remuneration of auditor

220,735,941

99.89%

253,279

0.11%

12,149

12.

Authority to allot shares

220,621,807

99.83%

377,011

0.17%

2,551

13.

Authority to disapply pre-emption rights

220,432,890

99.81%

428,977

0.19%

139,502

14.

Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights

220,427,890

99.80%

435,227

0.20%

138,252

15.

Authority to purchase own shares

220,953,701

99.98%

44,567

0.02%

3,101

16.

Authority to call general meetings on 14 days' notice

220,354,695

99.71%

641,514

0.29%

2,910

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 poll cards were made in respect of 221,001,659 shares representing 64.48% 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 2023, the Company had 342,757,296 ordinary shares of £0.01 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                                                                       via Teneo (below)

Darcy Willson-Rymer, Chief Executive Officer

Matthias Seeger, Chief Financial Officer

Teneo                                                                                         +44 (0) 207 353 4200

James Macey White / Jo Blackshaw                                           [email protected]

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