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Brown (N.) Group PLC

10 July 2023

RNS ANNOUNEMENT

Released 10 July 2023 post AGM

N BROWN GROUP PLC - RESULTS OF AGM AND CONFIRMATION OF BOARD CHANGES

N Brown Group Plc (the "Company" or the "Group"), a top 10 UK clothing and footwear digital retailer, announces that at its Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") held on Monday 10 July 2023 all resolutions were duly passed. Details of the resolutions are set out in full in the Notice of AGM made available to shareholders on 15 June 2023. Copies are available to view and download on the Company's corporate website:

https://www.nbrown.co.uk/investors/shareholder-information/agm

Shareholders were recommended to appoint the Chair as their proxy to vote on the resolutions set out in the notice of meeting. A poll was held on each of the resolutions proposed; all resolutions were passed by the required majority. Resolutions 1 to 14 (inclusive) and Resolution 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions and Resolution 15 was passed as a special resolution.

The results of votes cast for each resolution were as follows:

 
                       RESOLUTION                       VOTES        %      VOTES        %         VOTES 
                                                         FOR        FOR     AGAINST    AGAINST    WITHHELD 
                                                    ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
                 To receive the audited accounts 
                  and the auditors' and directors' 
                  reports for the 53 week 
 1                period ended 4 March 2023.         370,968,830   99.99    9,913       0.01       2,866 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
 2               To approve the directors'           370,680,345   99.91   295,814      0.08       5,450 
                  remuneration report (including 
                  the part containing the 
                  directors' remuneration 
                  policy) for the 53 week 
                  period ended 4 March 2023. 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
                 To re-appoint Ron McMillan 
 3                as a director. *                   370,822,906   99.97   129,418      0.03      29,285 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
                 To re-appoint Steve Johnson 
 4                as a director.                     370,766,824   99.95   176,574      0.05      38,211 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
 5               To re-appoint Lord Alliance         370,816,037   99.96   123,458      0.03      42,114 
                  of Manchester CBE as a director. 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
                 To re-appoint Michael Ross 
 6                as a director. *                   370,822,964   99.97   120,244      0.03      38,401 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
                 To re-appoint Vicky Mitchell 
 7                as a director. *                   370,830,403   99.97   121,921      0.03      29,285 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
 8               To re-appoint Joshua Alliance       370,817,812   99.96   132,096      0.04      31,701 
                  as a director. 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
                 To re-appoint Dominic Platt 
 9                as a director. *                   370,822,385   99.97   118,407      0.03      40,817 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
                 To re-appoint Meg Lustman 
 10               as a director. *                   370,830,881   99.97   121,443      0.03      29,285 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
 11              To re-appoint Dominic Appleton      370,776,149   99.94   173,759      0.05      31,701 
                  as a director, subject to 
                  regulatory approval. 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
                 To appoint Ernst & Young 
 12               LLP as auditors .                  370,928,156   99.99    24,134      0.01      29,319 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
                 To authorise the Audit and 
                  Risk Committee of the board 
                  of directors to determine 
 13               the auditors' remuneration.        370,858,686   99.98    90,023      0.02      32,900 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
 14              Director's authorisation            370,766,068   99.94   189,925      0.05      25,616 
                  to allot shares in the Company 
                  ... up to an aggregate nominal 
                  amount of GBP16,965,171 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
                 Granting of Section 561 
                  authority permitting an 
                  allotment of shares by the 
                  Directors for cash without 
 15               pre-emption rights                 370,695,597   99.92   255,430      0.07      30,582 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
                 To approve the rules of 
                  the N Brown Group plc Share 
 16               Plan.                              370,812,211   99.95   137,663      0.04      31,735 
     ---------------------------------------------  ------------  ------  ---------  ---------  ---------- 
 

* Independent Non-Executive Director

The full resolution can be found in the AGM notice

Notes:

1. As at the date of the AGM, the Company had 460,483,231 ordinary shares in issue. The Company did not hold any shares in treasury and therefore the number of total voting rights as at the date of the AGM was 460,483,231.

   2.    The scrutineer of the voting was Link Asset Services, the Company's Share Registrar. 

3. Note that a 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and such votes have not been included in the calculation of votes 'for' and 'against' each resolution. Proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the 'for' total above.

Confirmation of Board changes

Following the announcements made on 27 January 2023 and 7 February 2023 , Gill Barr and Richard Moross have stepped down as Board Directors as planned following the conclusion of the Company's AGM today.

The Board would like to thank both Gill and Richard for their contributions to the Group.

Following these changes, the Board will comprise the Chair (who was independent on appointment), the Group CEO and CFO and six Non-Executive Directors, four of whom are considered to be independent.

Meg Lustman will succeed Gill as the Chair of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Nominations & Governance Committee. The appointment of Meg Lustman as the Chair of the Remuneration Committee remains subject to FCA approval.

A copy of this announcement has been posted on the Company's corporate website:

https://www.nbrown.co.uk/investors/shareholder-information/agm

For further information:

 
N Brown Group 
David Fletcher, Head of Investor Relations     +44 (0)7876 111242 
 
MHP Communications 
James McFarlane / Eleni Menikou / Charles    +44 (0) 20 3128 8789 
 Hirst                                        NBrown@mhpgroup.com 
 
Shore Capital - Nomad and Broker 
Stephane Auton / Daniel Bush                 +44 (0) 20 7408 4090 
 

About N Brown Group:

N Brown is a top 10 UK clothing & footwear digital retailer, with a home proposition. Our retail brands include JD Williams, Simply Be and Jacamo, and our financial services proposition allows customers to spread the cost of shopping with us. We are headquartered in Manchester where we design, source and create our product offer and we employ over 1,700 people across the UK.

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