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RNS Number : 9398H  Grafton Group PLC  08 May 2025

8 May 2025

 

Grafton Group plc

(the "Company")

 

Results of the Annual General Meeting of the Company

held at 10.30am (Irish Time) on 8 May 2025

 

Grafton Group plc (the "Company") held its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") on 8
May 2025 during which all ordinary and special resolutions were duly passed.

 

All resolutions, as set out in the Notice of AGM dated 24 March 2025, were
voted on by way of a poll and the results were as follows:

  Resolution                                                                              For          %        Against     %       Withheld
 1        To receive and consider the financial statements for the year ended 31          114,501,053  99.998%  2,377       0.002%  816,209
          December 2024.
 2        To declare and pay a final dividend of 26.5 pence per Ordinary Share for the    115,310,602  99.998%  2,377       0.002%  6,660
          year ended 31 December 2024.
 3(a)     To re-elect Ian Tyler as a Director.                                            101,874,013  88.34%   13,444,474  11.66%  1,152
 3(b)     To re-elect Eric Born as a Director.                                            114,144,242  98.98%   1,174,245   1.02%   1,152
 3(c)     To re-elect David Arnold as a Director.                                         114,140,888  98.98%   1,177,663   1.02%   1,088
 3(d)     To re-elect Susan Murray as a Director.                                         113,256,072  98.21%   2,062,479   1.79%   1,088
 3(e)     To re-elect Vincent Crowley as a Director.                                      113,336,906  98.28%   1,981,645   1.72%   1,088
 3(f)     To re-elect Rosheen McGuckian as a Director.                                    114,005,775  98.86%   1,312,776   1.14%   1,088
 3(g)     To re-elect Avis Darzins as a Director.                                         113,977,829  98.84%   1,340,658   1.16%   1,152
 3(h)     To re-elect Mark Robson as a Director.                                          113,336,367  98.28%   1,982,184   1.72%   1,088
 4        To consider the continuation in office of PricewaterhouseCoopers as Auditors    114,583,722  99.99%   8,058       0.01%   727,859
          of the Company.
 5        To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the Auditors for the      115,311,843  99.996%  5,167       0.004%  2,629
          year ended 31 December 2025.
 6        To receive and consider the Chair's Annual Statement and the Annual Report on   114,547,566  99.36%   734,972     0.64%   37,101
          Remuneration of the Remuneration Committee for the year ended 31 December
          2024.
 7        To approve the convening of an Extraordinary General Meeting on 14 clear days'  109,993,307  95.41%   5,290,619   4.59%   35,713
          notice.
 8        To authorise the Directors to allot relevant securities.                        114,147,648  99.01%   1,137,449   0.99%   34,542

 9        To authorise the Directors to dis-apply statutory pre-emption rights and allot  115,258,332  99.96%   47,293      0.04%   14,014
          up to five per cent of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company.
 10       To authorise market purchases of the Company's own shares.                      115,193,636  99.98%   25,833      0.02%   100,170
 11       To determine the price range for the re-issue of treasury shares off-market.    115,260,429  99.98%   20,151      0.02%   39,059

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Notes:

1.   Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes
received.

2.   A vote "Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the
calculation of the votes "For" or "Against" the resolution.

3.   A total of 115,319,639 votes were validly cast for all resolutions.

 

The full text of these resolutions is set out in the Notice of AGM, which was
included in the AGM Circular made available to shareholders on 24 March 2025
and which is available on the Company's website at:
https://www.graftonplc.com/investors/shareholder-services/shareholder-meetings/
(https://www.graftonplc.com/investors/shareholder-services/shareholder-meetings/)
.

As required by the Listing Rules of the London Stock Exchange, copies of all
resolutions passed by the company other than resolutions concerning ordinary
business have been forwarded to the UK's National Storage Mechanism where they
will shortly be available for inspection at

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

 

For further information, please contact:

Rebecca McAleavey

Deputy Company Secretary

Grafton Group plc

Telephone: +353 1 2160600

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