23 January 2018

Connect Group PLC

Result of 2018 Annual General Meeting

Connect Group PLC is pleased to announce that at its AGM held at 11.30am today, all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed. All resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and the results of the poll for each resolution are shown below:

Resolution

For

Against

Withheld

No. of votes

%

No. of votes

%

No. of votes

1

To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 August 2017

167,115,903

99.99%

1,609

0.01%

4,491

2

To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 August 2017

159,516,228

95.79%

7,009,953

4.21%

595,822

3

To declare a final dividend of 6.7p per share

167,116,555

100.00%

860

0.00%

4,588

4

To elect Mark Whiteling

166,824,178

99.84%

267,959

0.16%

29,866

5

To re-elect Gary Kennedy

166,742,901

99.79%

357,252

0.21%

21,849

6

To re-elect Mark Cashmore

166,802,634

99.82%

297,062

0.18%

22,307

7

To re-elect David Bauernfeind

166,788,637

99.81%

311,059

0.19%

22,307

8

To re-elect Jonathan Bunting

166,804,074

99.82%

296,109

0.18%

21,820

9

To re-elect Denise Collis

165,299,613

98.92%

1,804,399

1.08%

17,991

10

To re-appoint the auditor

166,797,854

99.82%

296,330

0.18%

27,818

11

To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration

167,037,955

99.96%

67,885

0.04%

16,163

12

Authority to make political donations

164,600,052

98.53%

2,463,977

1.47%

57,974

13

Authority to allot shares

141,811,737

84.87%

25,286,144

15.13%

24,122

14

Authority to partially disapply pre-emption rights*

139,963,935

83.79%

27,079,158

16.21%

78,910

15

Authority to disapply pre-emption rights in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment*

141,405,092

84.65%

25,637,028

15.35%

79,882

16

Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*

166,729,420

99.77%

379,981

0.23%

12,601

17

Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice*

163,648,150

97.96%

3,413,037

2.04%

60,816

* Special resolution

Recognising proposed changes to the Corporate Governance Code (announced after the publication of the Annual Report and Accounts), developing market practice and following feedback from one of our major institutional shareholders, the Board has determined that future LTIP awards for Executive Directors will have a two year post-vesting holding period (of the net of tax number of shares). The resultant five-year timeframe between the grant of an LTIP award and the first opportunity to sell the vested shares will better align the long term interests of shareholders with the interests of the Executive Directors and provide a focus on longer-term outcomes.

1. Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and have been included in the 'For' total.

2. A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution.

3. The total number of shares in issue at 6.30pm on 19 January 2018 was 247,659,200. Votes were cast in respect of 67% of the issued share capital.

In accordance with the UK Listing Authority's Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the special business passed at the AGM, being resolutions 12 to 17, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism atwww.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

Adele Duff

Deputy Company Secretary

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