Loblaw : Announces Election of Directors

TORONTO, April 30, 2020 /CNW/ - Loblaw Companies Limited ("Loblaw") (TSX: L) today announced that all of the nominee directors listed in the management proxy circular dated March 13, 2020, were elected as directors of Loblaw. The vote was conducted at the Company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders, held in a virtual meeting format, on April 30, 2020. The results of the vote are set out below:

Name of Nominee	Votes For		Votes Withheld
Paviter S. Binning	312,955,584	99.80%	640,588	0.20%
Scott B. Bonham	313,434,219	99.95%	161,953	0.05%
Warren Bryant	313,023,800	99.82%	572,372	0.18%
Christie J.B. Clark	312,685,664	99.71%	910,508	0.29%
Daniel Debow	313,490,767	99.97%	105,405	0.03%
William A. Downe	309,136,582	98.58%	4,459,590	1.42%
Janice Fukakusa	313,561,007	99.99%	35,165	0.01%
M. Marianne Harris	313,565,548	99.99%	30,624	0.01%
Claudia Kotchka	313,019,781	99.82%	576,391	0.18%
Beth Pritchard	313,018,302	99.82%	577,870	0.18%
Sarah Raiss	313,032,411	99.82%	563,761	0.18%
Galen G. Weston	304,742,221	97.18%	8,853,951	2.82%

 

About Loblaw Companies Limited

Loblaw is Canada's food and pharmacy leader, and the nation's largest retailer. Loblaw provides Canadians with grocery, pharmacy, health and beauty, apparel, general merchandise, financial services and wireless mobile products and services. With more than 2,400 corporate, franchised and Associate-owned locations, Loblaw, its franchisees and associate-owners employ more than 190,000 full- and part-time employees, making it one of Canada's largest private sector employers.

Loblaw's purpose – Live Life Well® – puts first the needs and well-being of Canadians who make one billion transactions annually in the company's stores. Loblaw is positioned to meet and exceed those needs in many ways: convenient locations; more than 1,050 grocery stores that span the value spectrum from discount to specialty; full-service pharmacies at nearly 1,400 Shoppers Drug Mart® and Pharmaprix® locations and close to 500 Loblaw locations; PC Financial® services; affordable Joe Fresh® fashion and family apparel; and four of Canada's top-consumer brands in Life Brand®, Farmer's Market^TM, no name® and President's Choice®.

For more information, visit Loblaw's website at www.loblaw.ca and Loblaw's issuer profile at www.sedar.com.

SOURCE Loblaw Companies Limited

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