7 February 2024
ASOS Plc
("ASOS" or the
"Company")
Result of Annual General
Meeting
ASOS announces that all resolutions were duly
passed by means of a poll at the Company's Annual General Meeting
("AGM") held today. The results of the poll vote for each
resolution are set out below.
RESOLUTIONS
|
VOTES
FOR
|
%
FOR
|
VOTES
AGAINST
|
%
AGAINST
|
VOTES
WITHHELD*
|
1. To approve the Annual Report and
Accounts for the financial period ended 3 September 2023
|
87,745,546
|
99.87%
|
115,178
|
0.13%
|
111,993
|
2. To approve the Directors'
Remuneration Report
|
87,741,181
|
99.80%
|
179,055
|
0.20%
|
52,481
|
3. To re-elect Jørgen Lindemann as a
Director of the Company
|
84,428,745
|
96.57%
|
2,997,385
|
3.43%
|
546,587
|
4. To re-elect José Antonio Ramos
Calamonte as a Director of the Company
|
87,818,984
|
99.85%
|
129,754
|
0.15%
|
23,979
|
5. To re-elect Nick Robertson as a
Director of the Company
|
87,413,292
|
99.38%
|
541,643
|
0.62%
|
17,782
|
6. To elect William Barker as a
Director of the Company
|
87,645,903
|
99.66%
|
298,554
|
0.34%
|
28,260
|
7. To elect Wei Gao as a Director of
the Company
|
87,051,956
|
98.98%
|
895,185
|
1.02%
|
25,576
|
8. To elect Marie Gulin-Merle as a
Director of the Company
|
87,645,378
|
99.66%
|
301,758
|
0.34%
|
25,581
|
9. To elect Natasja Laheij as a
Director of the Company
|
87,645,670
|
99.66%
|
301,207
|
0.34%
|
25,840
|
10. To elect Jose Manuel Martínez
Gutiérrez as a Director of the Company
|
87,238,279
|
99.19%
|
708,032
|
0.81%
|
26,406
|
11. To elect Anna Maria Rugarli as a
Director of the Company
|
87,140,473
|
99.19%
|
707,897
|
0.81%
|
124,347
|
12. To re-appoint
PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company
|
87,710,941
|
99.72%
|
245,849
|
0.28%
|
15,927
|
13. To authorise the Directors to
determine the amount of the auditors' remuneration
|
87,820,161
|
99.84%
|
141,665
|
0.16%
|
10,891
|
14. To authorise the Company to make
political donations
|
87,691,245
|
99.80%
|
171,702
|
0.20%
|
109,770
|
15. To authorise the Directors to
allot Ordinary Shares in the Company
|
84,367,236
|
95.91%
|
3,593,405
|
4.09%
|
12,076
|
16. To authorise the Directors to
disapply pre-emption rights**
|
84,373,767
|
95.93%
|
3,578,436
|
4.07%
|
20,514
|
17. To authorise the Company to make
market purchases of own shares**
|
87,733,164
|
99.75%
|
222,761
|
0.25%
|
16,792
|
18. To authorise that a general
meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear days'
notice**
|
87,139,405
|
99.07%
|
822,101
|
0.93%
|
11,211
|
* 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 resolutions
are available in the Notice of Annual General Meeting on the
Company's website: www.asosplc.com
As at the date of the AGM, the
Company's issued and fully paid share capital consists of
119,334,341 Ordinary Shares with a nominal value of 3.5 pence each
("Ordinary Shares"), with one voting right per share. The Company
does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Treasury. The total
number of voting rights in the Company is therefore
119,334,341.
In accordance with Listing Rule
9.6.2 copies of the resolutions (other than those relating to
ordinary business) will be submitted to the FCA National Storage Mechanism and
will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
Board Changes
The Company also announces that, as
announced on 22 November 2023, Mai Fyfield retired from the Board
at the conclusion of the AGM. Natasja Laheij has been appointed as
Senior Independent Director with effect from today.
For
further information:
ASOS
plc
|
Tel: 020 7756 1000
|
Holly Cassell, Head of Investor
Relations
Website:
www.asosplc.com/investors
|
|
|
|
Teneo
|
Tel: 020 7353
4200
|
Jonathan Sibun / Will
Palfreyman
|
|
|
|
Background note
ASOS is a destination 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 app and mobile/desktop web experience, available in
nine languages and in over 200 markets, ASOS customers can shop a
curated edit of nearly 50,000 products, sourced from nearly 900
global and local third-party brands alongside a mix of fashion-led
own brand labels - including ASOS Design, ASOS Edition, ASOS 4505,
Collusion, Reclaimed Vintage, Topshop, Topman, and Miss Selfridge.
ASOS aims to give all its customers a truly frictionless
experience, with an ever-greater number of different payment
methods and hundreds of local deliveries and return options,
including Next-Day Delivery and Same-Day Delivery, dispatched from
state-of-the-art fulfilment centres in the UK, US, and
Germany.