Result of AGM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 7 July 2022

PETS AT HOME GROUP PLC: Results of Annual General Meeting 2022

 

Pets at Home Group Plc ("Company") gives notice that at its Annual General Meeting held on 7 July 2022 at Pets at Home, Chester House, Stanley Green Trading Estate, Handforth, Cheshire, SK9 3RN at 11.00 a.m., a poll was taken on all resolutions put to the meeting.  All resolutions were passed by the members entitled to vote.

The results of the poll incorporating proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting are set out below.

 

		VOTES FOR¹	%²	VOTES AGAINST	%	VOTES TOTAL	% OF ISC³	VOTES WITHHELD 4
Ordinary Resolutions
1	To receive the directors report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022	399,217,365	100.00%	5,416	0.00%	399,222,781	80.04%	1,570,938
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 March 2022	364,013,541	90.83%	36,771,235	9.17%	400,784,776	80.36%	8,943
3	To declare a final dividend of 7.5 pence per ordinary share for the year ended 31 March 2022	400,706,494	99.98%	83,996	0.02%	400,790,490	80.36%	3,229
4	To re-elect the following individuals as directors
4A	Mike Iddon	399,312,225	99.63%	1,477,594	0.37%	400,789,819	80.36%	3,900
4B	Dennis Millard	395,517,778	98.68%	5,272,863	1.32%	400,790,641	80.36%	3,078
4C	Sharon Flood	393,416,753	98.16%	7,373,912	1.84%	400,790,665	80.36%	3,054
4D	Stanislas Laurent	395,757,861	98.74%	5,032,780	1.26%	400,790,641	80.36%	3,078
4E	Susan Dawson	396,132,151	98.84%	4,658,514	1.16%	400,790,665	80.36%	3,054
4F	Ian Burke	393,509,585	98.18%	7,281,056	1.82%	400,790,641	80.36%	3,078
4G	Zarin Patel	392,902,069	98.56%	5,729,260	1.44%	398,631,329	79.93%	2,162,390
5	To elect Lyssa McGowan as director	399,302,293	99.63%	1,476,414	0.37%	400,778,707	80.36%	15,012
6	To reappoint KPMG LLP as the auditor	343,676,937	85.75%	57,110,060	14.25%	400,786,997	80.36%	7,005
7	To authorise the directors to set the auditor's fees	397,890,438	99.28%	2,898,893	0.72%	400,789,331	80.36%	4,671
8	To give the directors authority to allot shares	377,570,590	94.21%	23,217,939	5.79%	400,788,529	80.36%	5,473
9	To authorise the Company and its Subsidiaries to make political donations	392,959,743	98.12%	7,517,317	1.88%	400,477,060	80.30%	314,342
Special Resolutions
10	To disapply pre-emption rights	385,606,427	99.99%	26,171	0.01%	385,632,598	77.32%	15,161,404
11	Additional disapplication of pre-emption rights	372,924,574	96.60%	13,141,171	3.40%	386,065,745	77.41%	14,728,257
12	To authorise the Company to buy its own shares	394,755,179	98.84%	4,623,061	1.16%	399,378,240	80.07%	1,415,762
13	To authorise short notice general meetings	388,714,886	96.99%	12,076,231	3.01%	400,791,117	80.36%	2,885

 

Notes:

 

1.  Votes "for" include discretionary votes.

2.  Percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.

3.  Issued share capital at meeting date: 498,756,282.

4.  A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "for" and "against" a resolution.

 

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website https://investors.petsathome.com/investors/

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, a copy of the resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, passed by the Company at the Annual General Meeting held on 7 July 2022, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

 

For further information contact:

Lucy Williams

Group Company Secretary and

Legal Director

Pets at Home Group Plc

0161 486 6688