AO WORLD PLC

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Jul 21, 2015

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RNS Number : 6647T

AO World plc

21 July 2015

AO World PLC ("Company")

Result of Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of AO World plc held earlier today all the resolutions put to the meeting were passed.  Details of the votes cast are shown in the table below.

	Resolution	Votes in favour*		Votes against		Total number of votes cast	Votes Withheld**
No. of shares	%	No. of shares	%	No. of shares
1	To receive the report and accounts	348,185,453	>99.99	11,969	<0.01	348,197,422	777,527
2	To approve the Directors' remuneration report	348,021,488	99.77	787,673	0.23	348,809,161	165,788
3	To re-elect Richard Rose as a Director	315,708,934	90.47	33,265,092	9.53	348,974,026	923
4	To re-elect John Roberts as a Director	348,889,052	99.98	85,897	0.02	348,974,949	0
5	To re-elect Steve Caunce as a Director	348,889,052	99.98	85,897	0.02	348,974,949	0
6	To re-elect Brian McBride as a Director	348,717,264	99.97	91,897	0.03	348,809,161	165,788
7	To re-elect Chris Hopkinson as a Director	299,467,745	87.83	41,507,754	12.17	340,975,499	7,999,450
8	To re-elect Marisa Cassoni as a Director	348,715,964	99.97	91,897	0.03	348,807,861	167,088
9	To re-elect Rudolf Lamprecht as a Director	348,758,795	99.96	122,414	0.04	348,881,209	93,740
10	To reappoint Deloitte LLP as auditors	348,898,935	99.99	34,901	0.01	348,933,836	41,113
11	To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors	348,964,903	>99.99	10,046	<0.01	348,974,949	0
12	To authorise the Directors to allot shares	316,248,788	90.62	32,726,161	9.38	348,974,949	0
13	To disapply pre-emption rights***	348,857,160	99.97	112,789	0.03	348,969,949	5,000
14	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares***	348,971,489	>99.99	3,460	<0.01	348,974,949	0
15	To authorise the Company to make political donations	348,814,310	>99.99	16,354	<0.01	348,830,664	144,285
16	To authorise the Company to hold general meetings on 14 days' notice***	347,602,068	99.61	1,372,881	0.39	348,974,949	0

*      Includes those votes giving the Chairman discretion

**    A vote 'Withheld' has no legal effect and is not counted in the votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution

***  Passed as special resolutions

The maximum number of votes cast was 348,974,949 representing 82.88% of the Company's issued share capital of 421,052,631 as at 6pm on 17 July 2015.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed as special business have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM 

Enquiries:

AO World plc

Julie Finnemore

Company Secretary

Tel: +44(0)1204 672400

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