Watches of Switzerland Group PLC

AGM Information • Sep 4, 2024

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Watches of Switzerland Group PLC

04 September 2024

Watches of Switzerland Group PLC

Result of AGM held on 3rd September 2024

The Board is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions set out in the Company's notice of AGM dated 9 July 2024 were voted on by way of a poll and were passed.

The final voting figures are shown below.

Resolution	Total Votes cast	For		Against		Withheld
	Number	Number	%	Number	%	Number
1    To receive the Group's Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 28 April 2024	186,532,640	186,531,501	100.00%	1,139	0.00%	678,486
2    To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	187,189,786	175,413,162	93.71%	11,776,624	6.29%	21,340
3    To re-elect Ian Carter as a director of the Company	187,207,541	185,229,227	98.94%	1,978,314	1.06%	3,585
4    To re-elect Brian Duffy as a director of the Company	187,208,319	187,000,870	99.89%	207,449	0.11%	2,787
5    To re-elect Anders Romberg as a director of the Company	187,201,812	187,174,439	99.99%	27,373	0.01%	9,314
6    To re-elect Tea Colaianni as a director of the Company	187,207,062	185,311,556	98.99%	1,895,506	1.01%	4,064
7    To re-elect Rosa Monckton as a director of the Company	187,207,812	184,965,549	98.80%	2,242,263	1.20%	3,314
8    To re-elect Robert Moorhead as a director of the Company	186,419,525	184,513,473	98.98%	1,906,052	1.02%	791,601
9    To re-elect Chabi Nouri as a director of the Company	187,210,257	186,724,257	99.74%	486,000	0.26%	869
10 To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as Auditors of the Company	187,207,708	186,027,706	99.37%	1,180,002	0.63%	3,418
11  To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditors	187,203,522	187,191,013	99.99%	12,509	0.01%	7,604
12  To authorise the Directors to make political donations and expenditure in accordance with the Companies Act 2006	187,210,850	185,382,899	99.02%	1,827,951	0.98%	276
13  To authorise the directors to allot shares in the Company	187,203,850	181,301,449	96.85%	5,902,401	3.15%	7,276
14 To empower the Directors to issue shares for cash free from statutory pre-emption rights	187,191,289	159,207,765	85.05%	27,983,524	14.95%	19,837
15  To empower the Directors to issue shares for cash free from statutory pre-emption rights in connection with acquisitions or other capital investments	187,185,539	157,996,580	84.41%	29,188,959	15.59%	25,587
16  To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares	187,008,652	186,093,756	99.51%	914,896	0.49%	202,474
17 To call general meetings (other than annual general meetings) on not less than 14 days' notice	187,210,723	182,325,680	97.39%	4,885,043	2.61%	403

As at the date of the AGM, the number of issued shares and total voting rights of the Company was 239,570,297. The Company's Articles of Association set out that every member who is present in person or by proxy shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder on a poll. The scrutineer of the poll was Equiniti Limited

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2,Watches of Switzerland Group PLC will submit a copy of the resolutions dealing with the AGM special business approved today to the National Storage Mechanism and these will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

For further information, please visit our website thewosgroupplc.com/investors

The Watches of Switzerland Group PLC

Laura Battley

(Company Secretary & General Counsel)                         +44 (0) 20 7317 4604

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