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John Lewis Partnership plc Annual Report and Accounts 2014


NOTICE OF AGM


Notice is hereby given that the eighty-fifth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 13.45 on 5 June 2014 at The Board Room, Partnership House, Carlisle Place, London, SW1P 1BX:


– To receive the Company’s Annual Report and Accounts, together with the Strategic Report, the Directors’ Report, and the Auditor’s Report on those Accounts for the year ended 25 January 2014


– To re-elect, as separate resolutions, Kate Brewer, Denis Hennequin and Keith Williams. Biographical details of the Directors and their experience are set out on page 62.


– To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditor of the Company to hold office from the conclusion of the meeting until the conclusion of the next meeting of the Company at which accounts are laid


– To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditor


– To consider the following, which will be proposed as an Ordinary Resolution;


That pursuant to the Company’s Articles of Association;*


(a) The Company be and is hereby authorised to purchase by way of market purchase on a recognised stock exchange;


(i) Up to £3,696,995 in nominal amount of 5 per cent Cumulative Preference stock (‘the 5 per cent stock’) in the Company at a minimum price of 60p and a maximum price of £1 per £1 nominal of the 5 per cent stock; and


(ii) Up to £500,000 in nominal amount of 7½ per cent Cumulative Preference stock (‘the 7½ per cent stock’) in the Company at a minimum price of 80p and a maximum price of 125p per £1 nominal of the 7½ per cent stock; and


(b) This authority shall expire on the earlier of the close of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 2015 or 30 August 2015.


Margaret Casely-Hayford, Company Secretary


171 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5NN 10 April 2014


The Report and Accounts are sent to all members, but only the members holding Deferred Ordinary Shares are entitled to attend and vote at this meeting.


A member entitled to attend and vote at this meeting is entitled to appoint one or more proxies to attend and vote instead of him. A proxy need not be a member.


By Order of the Board


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