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LOOKERS PLC AGM Information 2022

May 31, 2022

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AGM Information

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Lookers plc

(the "Company")

Results of 2022 Annual General Meeting

The Company announces that at its Annual General Meeting held at 10:00am on 31 May 2022 (the "AGM") all of the resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting (the "Notice") published on 25 April 2022 were passed by the requisite majority by means of a poll vote. Resolutions 1 to 14 were passed as ordinary resolutions (requiring a simple majority of votes in favour of the resolution) and resolutions 15 to 19 were passed as special resolutions (requiring a 75% majority of votes in favour). The results of the poll for each resolution are set out below:

Resolution Description Votes for % Votes
against
% Votes
withheld*
Votes cast as
a % of issued
share capital
1 To receive and
adopt the accounts
for the year ended
31 December 2021,
together with the
Reports of the
Directors and of the
Auditors thereon.
291,293,492 99.89% 326,896 0.11% 53,914 74.35%
2 To approve the
Directors'
Remuneration
Report for the year
ended 31 December
2021.
290,930,080 99.74% 744,222 0.26% 0 74.36%
3 To declare a final
dividend of 2.5p per
ordinary share in the
Company in respect
of the year ended 31
December 2021.
290,315,442 99.53% 1,358,860 0.47% 0 74.36%
4 To re-appoint BDO
LLP as the auditors
to the Company.
290,949,896 99.75% 724,406 0.25% 0 74.36%
5 To authorise the
Audit and Risk
Committee of the
Company to
determine the
remuneration of the
auditors.
290,025,085 99.43% 1,649,217 0.57% 0 74.36%
6 To elect Ian Alan Bull
as a Director.
291,222,314 99.85% 451,988 0.15% 0 74.36%
7 To elect Deborah
Lynn Sherry as a
Director.
291,528,303 99.95% 145,999 0.05% 0 74.36%
8 To elect Oliver
Walter Laird as a
Director.
291,566,939 99.96% 107,363 0.04% 0 74.36%
9 To re-elect Robin
James Churchouse
as a Director
291,159,540 99.88% 353,914 0.12% 160,848 74.32%
10 To re-elect Duncan
Andrew McPhee as a
Director
291,422,597 99.92% 245,405 0.08% 6,300 74.36%
11 To re-elect Victoria
Grant Mitchell as a
Director.
291,629,527 99.99% 38,475 0.01% 6,300 74.36%
12 To re-elect Mark
Douglas Raban as a
Director.
278,522,754 95.50% 13,138,087 4.50% 13,461 74.36%
13 To re-elect Paul Van
der Burgh as a
Director.
291,632,717 99.99% 41,585 0.01% 0 74.36%
14 To grant the Board
authority to allot
shares
291,603,351 99.98% 64,651 0.02% 6,300 74.36%
15 To grant the Board
authority to disapply
pre-emption rights.
291,109,841 99.81% 558,161 0.19% 6,300 74.36%
16 To grant the Board
authority to further
disapply pre
emption rights for
acquisitions.
290,899,784 99.73% 774,518 0.27% 0 74.36%
17 To authorise the
Company to make
market purchase of
its own shares.
291,626,776 99.98% 47,526 0.02% 0 74.36%
18 To authorise calling
general meetings on
short notice.
291,235,593 99.85% 438,709 0.15% 0 74.36%
19 To amend the
Company's Articles
of Association.
290,311,282 99.53% 1,363,020 0.47% 0 74.36%

Notes:

  1. In accordance with the Company's Articles of Association, on a poll every member present in person or by proxy has one vote for every share held.

  2. A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentage of shares voted "For" or "Against" any resolution nor in the calculation of the proportion of "issued share capital instructed" for any resolution.

  3. The issued share capital of the Company as at 31 May 2022 was 392,236,341 ordinary shares of 5 pence each. The total voting rights of the Company on the day on which shareholders had to be on the register in order to be eligible to vote at the AGM was 392,236,341. Each share carries one vote. No shares are held in treasury.

  4. Votes "For" and "Against" any resolution are expressed as a percentage of votes validly cast for that resolution.

  5. The full text of the resolutions passed at the AGM can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available on the Company's website at: www.lookersplc.com.

  6. A copy of the special business resolution passed at the AGM will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

  7. A copy of the Articles of Association approved at the meeting and adopted as the Articles of Association of the company will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

  8. The complete poll results will be available shortly on the Company's website at www.lookersplc.com.

Enquiries:

Debbie Fish Deputy Company Secretary 0161 291 0043

The Company is registered in England at Lookers House, 3 Etchells Road, West Timperley, Altrincham WA14 5XS. Company registration number 00111876. LEI number 213800TSB8PJEACDAV33

Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.