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Next PLC18 May 2005 Date: Immediate release: Wednesday 18 May 2005 Contacts: Andrew McKinlay, Company Secretary Seonna Anderson, Deputy Company Secretary NEXT PLC Tel: 08454 567777 Alistair Mackinnon-Musson Philip Dennis gcg hudson sandler Tel: 020 7796 4133 Email: [email protected] NEXT PLC Results of 2005 Annual General Meeting ("AGM") The BOARD of NEXT plc is pleased to announce that, at the AGM of NEXTshareholders held on 18 May 2005, all resolutions as set out in the Notice ofMeeting contained in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 29January 2005 were passed. Ordinary business resolutions were carried on a showof hands and special business resolutions were decided by poll votes, theresults of which are as detailed below: For Against TOTAL VOTES Votes CAST withheld Resolution Special / No. of Votes % No. of % No. of Votes No. of Votes Ordinary Votes 9. To approve the Next Management Ordinary 137,788,278 98.7% 1,822,400 1.3% 139,610,678 136,626Share Option Plan 10. Authority to allot shares Ordinary 136,026,052 99.1% 1,221,819 0.9% 137,247,871 2,499,433 11. Authority to disapply Special 137,320,603 99.9% 139,562 0.1% 137,460,165 2,287,139pre-emption rights 12. Authority to purchase own Special 136,151,022 99.4% 849,076 0.6% 137,000,098 2,747,206shares 13. Authority to enter into Special 128,617,041 94.3% 7,725,251 5.7% 136,342,292 3,405,012Programme Agreements with each ofGoldman Sachs International, UBSAG and Deutsche Bank AG Less votes disregarded under theprovisions of Section 164(5) ofthe Companies Act 1985 (6,000,000)1 - (6,000,000)1 Resolution 13 total 122,617,041 94.1% 7,725,251 5.9% 130,342,292 14. Amendment of Article 141: Special 139,494,088 100% 59,986 0% 139,554,074 193,230directors' indemnities Note(1): The total maximum number of Ordinary Shares which may be purchased byNext for cancellation pursuant to such contingent purchase contracts is 6million. As explained in the Notice of Meeting, Next has disregarded 6 millionvotes from both the total number of votes cast in favour of the resolution andthe total votes cast so that the voting of those shares did not affect theresult of the poll. Two copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM have beensubmitted to the UK Listing Authority and will be available for inspection atthe UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated atFinancial Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E145HS. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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