10th Jul 2025 16:35
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 10 July 2025
PETS AT HOME GROUP PLC
Results of Annual General Meeting
Pets at Home Group Plc ("Company") gives notice that at its Annual General Meeting held on 10 July 2025 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 WITHHELD⁴ |
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Ordinary Resolutions | |||||||||
1. | To receive the directors' report and accounts for the year ended 27 March 2025 | 332,599,320 | 100.00 | 9,336 | 0.00 | 332,608,656 | 72.55 | 719,854 |
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2. | To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 27 March 2025 | 311,849,486 | 93.80 | 20,621,989 | 6.20 | 332,471,475 | 72.52 | 857,035 |
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3. | To approve the sharesave plan as an employees' share scheme | 332,386,074 | 99.72 | 927,655 | 0.28 | 333,313,729 | 72.71 | 14,781 |
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4. | To declare a final dividend recommended by the Directors of 8.3 pence per ordinary share for the year ended 27 March 2025 | 333,314,907 | 100.00 | 7,586 | 0.00 | 333,322,493 | 72.71 | 6,017 |
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5. | To re-elect the following individuals as directors |
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5A. | Lyssa McGowan | 333,074,920 | 99.93 | 228,783 | 0.07 | 333,303,703 | 72.70 | 24,807 |
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5B. | Mike Iddon | 333,071,214 | 99.93 | 230,264 | 0.07 | 333,301,478 | 72.70 | 27,032 |
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5C. | Ian Burke | 332,964,388 | 99.90 | 318,271 | 0.10 | 333,282,659 | 72.70 | 45,851 |
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5D. | Zarin Patel | 332,344,865 | 99.72 | 937,794 | 0.28 | 333,282,659 | 72.70 | 45,851 |
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5E. | Roger Burnley | 329,768,171 | 98.95 | 3,514,498 | 1.05 | 333,282,669 | 72.70 | 45,841 |
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5F. | Natalie-Jane Macdonald | 332,344,614 | 99.72 | 934,513 | 0.28 | 333,279,127 | 72.70 | 49,383 |
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6. | To elect Garret Turley as a Director of the Company | 333,254,469 | 99.99 | 28,033 | 0.01 | 333,282,502 | 72.7 | 46,008 |
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7. | To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the auditor | 333,169,116 | 99.97 | 113,815 | 0.03 | 333,282,931 | 72.70 | 45,579 |
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8. | To authorise the directors to set the auditors' fees | 333,269,677 | 99.99 | 20,155 | 0.01 | 333,289,832 | 72.70 | 38,678 |
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9. | To give the directors authority to allot shares | 321,018,828 | 96.31 | 12,296,452 | 3.69 | 333,315,280 | 72.71 | 13,230 |
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10. | To authorise the Company and its Subsidiaries to make political donations | 322,891,536 | 96.87 | 10,425,416 | 3.13 | 333,316,952 | 72.71 | 11,558 |
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Special Resolutions | |||||||||
11. | To disapply pre-emption rights | 332,653,950 | 99.91 | 289,827 | 0.09 | 332,943,777 | 72.63 | 384,733 |
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12. | Additional disapplication of pre-emption rights | 333,004,755 | 99.91 | 283,674 | 0.09 | 333,288,429 | 72.70 | 40,081 |
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13. | To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 333,046,232 | 99.99 | 22,641 | 0.01 | 333,068,873 | 72.65 | 259,637 |
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14. | To authorise short notice general meetings | 323,079,849 | 96.94 | 10,208,466 | 3.06 | 333,288,315 | 72.70 | 40,195 |
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Notes:
1. Votes "for" include discretionary votes.
2. Percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.
3. Issued share capital at proxy voting closing: 458,441,054.
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 10 July 2025, 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:
Lesley Lazenby
Legal Director & Company Secretary
Pets at Home Group PLC
0161 486 6688
+44 (0) 7866 156 688
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