Marks & Spencer Group PLC (LSE:MKS)
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Marks and Spencer Group PLC Annual Shareholders Meeting Transcript

Jul 04, 2023 / 10:00AM GMT
Release Date Price: £1.92 (-1.81%)
Archie J. Norman
Marks and Spencer Group plc - Non-Executive Chairman

Hello, and welcome to the Marks & Spencer 2023 AGM. I'm the Chairman, and I'm Archie Norman. And I've been reading a book. It's entitled, it's a well-worn leather bound book. it's entitled The Chairman's reviews at annual meetings since the incorporation of the company in 1926. And this is a record of AGMs from 1926 to 1962. And the reason I've been reading it is not just because, of course, those were the glory days for M&S when we were a rapidly growing company. but also because those were the heydays of the great AGM, the days of popular shareholder democracy. And we've set ourselves a target of trying to bring back the spirit of those days, the spirit of shareholder democracy.

And so we set ourselves a target today of getting 2,500 people to join us at this meeting live. And I don't know whether to achieve that, but I hope we have. And I want to say a particular thank you to interactive investor who joined us in on our Share Your Voice Campaign for shareholder democracy, and shared with us the contact details of

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