John Lewis Partnership plc annual report and accounts 2013

Notice of AGM

Notice is hereby given that the eighty-fourth annual general meeting of the company will be held at 12.30pm on 6 June 2013 at Partnership Services Division head office, Spedan House, Doncastle Road, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 8YA:

– To receive the Company’s annual accounts, together with the Directors’ Report, and the Auditor’s Report on those accounts for the year ended 26 January 2013.

– To re-elect, as separate resolutions, Jane Burgess, Steve Gardiner, Dan Smith, Kevin Payne, Noel Saunders and Helen Weir as directors of the Company.

Biographical details of the directors and their experience is set out on pages 30 to 31.

– 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 nominal of the 5 per cent stock; and

(ii) up to £500,000 in nominal amount of 7 1/2 per cent Cumulative Preference stock (‘the 7 1/2 per cent stock’) in the company at a minimum price of 80p and a maximum price of 125p per £1 nominal of the 7 1/2 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 2014 or 30 August 2014.

By Order of the Board

Margaret Casely-Hayford

 Company Secretary

171 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5NN 22 April 2013

* Copies of the Articles of Association to be presented at the meeting are available on request from the Company Secretary.

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.

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