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ProCook Group PLC

20 September 2023

20 September 2023

ProCook Group plc

Results of Annual General Meeting

ProCook Group plc, the UK's leading direct-to-consumer specialist kitchenware brand, announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held yesterday 19 September 2023, all resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed. Resolutions 1 to 11 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 12 to 16 were passed as special resolutions.

The results of the poll were as follows :

 
 No.   Resolution                             For                  Against           Votes       Total issued 
                                                                                    Withheld     share capital 
                                                                                                  instructed 
                                          Number         %       Number        %       Number                % 
                                       of shares              of shares             of shares 
                                     -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       To receive the reports 
        of the Directors 
        and the financial 
        statements for the 
        year ended 2 April 
        2023 together with 
        the report of the 
 1      auditor thereon.              81,644,830   99.996%        2,951   0.004%        8,968          74.936% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       To receive the Directors' 
        Remuneration Report 
        for the financial 
        year ended 2 April 
 2      2023.                         81,637,556   99.979%       17,225   0.021%        1,968          74.942% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       To re-elect Greg 
        Hodder as a Director 
 3      of the Company.               81,641,195   99.984%       13,183   0.016%        2,371          74.942% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       To re-elect Luke 
        Kingsnorth as a 
        Director of the 
 4      Company.                      81,636,867   99.978%       17,914   0.022%        1,968          74.942% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       To re-elect Daniel 
        O'Neill as a Director 
 5      of the Company.               81,636,867   99.978%       17,914   0.022%        1,968          74.942% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       To re-elect David 
        Stead as a Director 
 6      of the Company.               81,641,598   99.984%       13,183   0.016%        1,968          74.942% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       To re-elect Dan 
        Walden as a Director 
 7      of the Company.               81,636,867   99.978%       17,914   0.022%        1,968          74.942% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       To re-appoint Mazars 
        LLP as Auditor of 
        the Company to hold 
        office until the 
        conclusion of the 
        next general meeting 
        at which accounts 
        are laid before 
 8      the Company.                  81,649,287   99.993%        5,494   0.007%        1,968          74.942% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       To authorise the 
        Audit and Risk Committee 
        to determine the 
        remuneration of 
 9      the Company's Auditor.        81,649,287   99.996%        2,951   0.004%        4,511          74.940% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       That amendments 
        to the ProCook Group 
        plc Performance 
        Share Plan 2021 
        and Deferred Bonus 
        Plan 2021 be approved 
        (see Notice for 
 10     details).                     81,582,287   99.911%       72,494   0.089%        1,968          74.942% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       That the Directors 
        be authorised to 
        allot Equity Securities 
        within the parameters 
 11     set out in the Notice.        81,581,884   99.920%       65,494   0.080%        9,371          74.936% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       That, subject to 
        resolution 11 being 
        passed, the Directors 
        be authorised to 
        allot Equity Securities 
        for cash as if section 
        561 of the CA 2006 
        did not apply within 
        the parameters set 
 12*    out in the Notice.            81,581,884   99.911%       72,494   0.089%        2,371          74.942% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       THAT, subject to 
        resolution 11 being 
        passed and in addition 
        to resolution 12, 
        the Directors be 
        authorised to allot 
        Equity Securities 
        for cash as if section 
        561 of the CA 2006 
        did not apply within 
        the parameters set 
 13*    out in the Notice.            81,581,884   99.911%       72,494   0.089%        2,371          74.942% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       That, the Company 
        be authorised to 
        make market purchases 
        of Ordinary Shares 
        on the terms set 
 14*    out in the Notice.            81,650,646   99.995%        4,135   0.005%        1,968          74.942% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       That the Company 
        be authorised to 
        hold general meetings 
        (other than annual 
        general meetings) 
        on not less than 
        14 days' notice 
 15*    (see Notice).                 81,591,830   99.996%        2,951   0.004%       61,968          74.887% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       That, for the purpose 
        of qualifying the 
        Company as a B Corporation, 
        with immediate effect, 
        the articles of 
        association of the 
        Company be amended 
        as further set out 
 16*    in the Notice.                81,642,287   99.988%        9,951   0.012%        4,511          74.940% 
      -----------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
 * special resolution 
 

For the purposes of the FCA Listing Rules, the Concert Party (being Michael O'Neill, Daniel O'Neill, Sarah O'Neill, and Daniel O'Neill and Sarah O'Neill as trustees of the O'Neill 2021 Discretionary Settlement) is a controlling shareholder as a result of it holding 75,835,918 shares (36,589,016 shares, 17,048,725 shares, 14,798,785 shares and 7,399,392 shares respectively). Each resolution to elect independent non-executive directors (resolutions 4 and 6) has under Listing Rule 9.2.2E been approved by a majority of the votes cast by: (i) the shareholders of the Company as a whole; and (ii) the independent shareholders of the Company, that is, all the shareholders entitled to vote on each resolution excluding the controlling shareholder, as set out in the table below.

 
 Independent Issued Share Capital: 33,120,706 
 No.   Resolution                         For                  Against           Votes       Total issued 
                                                                                Withheld     share capital 
                                                                                              instructed 
      -------------------------  ---------------------  --------------------  -----------  --------------- 
                                      Number         %       Number        %       Number                % 
                                   of shares              of shares             of shares 
      -------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       To elect Luke Kingsnorth 
        as a Director of 
 4      the Company.               6,642,941   99.731%       17,914   0.269%        1,968           6.113% 
      -------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
       To elect David Stead 
        as a Director of 
 6      the Company.               6,647,672   99.802%       13,183   0.198%        1,968           6.113% 
      -------------------------  -----------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------  --------------- 
 

Notes :

   1.     All resolutions were passed. 

2. Proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman of the AGM have been included in the "For" total for the appropriate resolution.

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

4. 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 "Total issued share capital instructed" for any resolution.

5. The number of shares in issue at the close of business on 18 September 2023 was 108,956,624 and at that time, the Company did not hold any shares in treasury.

6. The proportion of "Total issued share capital instructed" for any resolution is the total of votes validly cast for that resolution (i.e. the total votes "For" and "Against" that resolution) expressed as a percentage of the Share Capital.

7. 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 Investors section of the Company's website: https://www.procookgroup.co.uk/investors/reports-and-presentations/

8. A copy of resolutions 12-16 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 .

9. These poll results will be available shortly on the Investors section of the Company's website at https://www.procookgroup.co.uk/investors/rns .

For further information please contact:

 
 ProCook Group plc                         investor.relations@procook.co.uk 
  Lee Tappenden, Chief Executive Officer 
  Dan Walden, Chief Financial Officer 
 
 
 MHP Group (Financial PR Adviser)        procook@mhpgroup.com 
  Katie Hunt                         Tel: +44 (0)7711 191 518 
  Catherine Chapman 
 

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