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RNS Number : 5854E  Grafton Group PLC  15 May 2026

15 May 2026

 

Grafton Group plc

(the "Company")

 

Results of the Annual General Meeting of the Company

held at 10.30am (Irish Time) on 15 May 2026

 

Grafton Group plc (the "Company") held its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") on
15 May 2026 during which all ordinary and special resolutions were duly
passed.

 

All resolutions, as set out in the Notice of AGM dated 23 March 2026, 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          117,877,738  99.99%  383         0.01%   54,718
          December 2025.
 2        To declare and pay a final dividend of 27.0 pence per Ordinary Share for the    117,929,480  99.99%  913         0.01%   2,446
          year ended 31 December 2025.
 3A       To re-elect Ian Tyler as a Director.                                            104,458,859  88.58%  13,471,051  11.42%  2,929
 3B       To re-elect Eric Born as a Director.                                            117,900,970  99.98%  28,940      0.02%   2,929
 3C       To re-elect David Arnold as a Director.                                         117,326,607  99.49%  603,303     0.51%   2,929
 3D       To re-elect Rosheen McGuckian as a Director.                                    117,283,989  99.45%  645,921     0.55%   2,929
 3E       To re-elect Avis Darzins as a Director.                                         117,282,794  99.45%  646,530     0.55%   3,515
 3F       To re-elect Mark Robson as a Director.                                          117,284,125  99.45%  645,785     0.55%   2,929
 3G       To elect David Dillon as a Director.                                            117,283,380  99.45%  646,530     0.55%   2,929
 3H       To elect Andrea Gisle Joosen as a Director.                                     117,023,889  99.23%  905,571     0.77%   3,379
 4        To consider the continuation in office of PricewaterhouseCoopers as Auditors    117,178,345  99.37%  748,331     0.63%   6,163
          of the Company.
 5        To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the Auditors for the      117,930,368  99.99%  303         0.01%   2,168
          year ended 31 December 2026.
 6        To receive and consider the Chair's Annual Statement and the Annual Report on   117,736,456  99.84%  192,594     0.16%   3,789
          Remuneration of the Remuneration Committee for the year ended 31 December
          2025.
 7        To receive and consider the 2026 Remuneration Policy.                           112,867,284  95.71%  5,060,271   4.29%   5,284
 8        To approve the convening of an Extraordinary General Meeting on 14 clear days'  113,827,674  96.52%  4,102,672   3.48%   2,493
          notice.
 9        To authorise the Directors to allot relevant securities.                        117,436,281  99.58%  490,294     0.42%   6,264
 10       To authorise the Directors to dis-apply statutory pre-emption rights and allot  117,902,449  99.99%  14,705      0.01%   15,685
          up to five per cent of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company.
 11       To authorise market purchases of the Company's own shares.                      117,769,085  99.97%  34,993      0.03%   128,761
 12       To determine the price range for the re-issue of treasury shares off-market.    117,799,577  99.99%  1,087       0.01%   132,175
 13       To approve amendments to the Rules of the 2021 LTIP Plan                        117,145,509  99.34%  776,958     0.66%   10,372

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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 117,932,839 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 23 March 2026
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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