The Annual General Meeting of Ocado Group plc (the Company ) was held at Buildings One & Two Trident Place, Mosquito Way, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9UL as a combined physical and electronic meeting, on Thursday, 13 May 2021 at 10.00am. All resolutions were decided on a poll and all resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting were passed by shareholders. The full text of each resolution is contained in the notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available on the Company s website www.ocadogroup.com (with each resolution number below corresponding to the resolution number in the notice). The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions put before the Annual General Meeting and the number of votes withheld were as follows:
Ocado Group plc ( Ocado Group or the Company ), the pioneer of online grocery, today announces that it intends to appoint Richard ( Rick ) Haythornthwaite as independent non-executive Chairman of the Board at its AGM in May 2021 to replace Stuart Rose, who will be retiring from the role after eight years of service. Rick, who will join the Board as an independent Non-Executive Director with effect from 1 January 2021 before assuming the Chairman s role after Ocado s AGM in May, brings a wealth of relevant experience as chairman, non-executive director, and CEO of a wide range of companies. He is currently Chairman of Mastercard Inc., which he joined just before the IPO of the company in 2006, and he will retire from this position at the end of the year. Rick is also the chairman and co-founder of QiO Technologies Ltd, an advanced analytics and AI software company. He has previously served as CEO of listed companies Invensys plc and B