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RNS Number : 3744A  Harworth Group PLC  23 May 2023

23 May
2023
     LEI: 213800R8JSSGK2KPFG21

 

Harworth Group plc

 

Results of Annual General Meeting and notice of interim results

 

Annual General Meeting

Harworth Group plc (the "Company") announces that at its Annual General
Meeting held at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday 23 May 2023 all resolutions in the
Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 13 April 2023 were passed by the
necessary majority on a show of hands.

Details of proxy voting instructions received in advance of the Annual General
Meeting are shown in the table below and will be posted on the Company's
website, www.harworthgroup.com (http://www.harworthgroup.com) .

The number of ordinary shares in issue on 23 May 2023 was 323,434,802 ordinary
shares.  A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the
calculation of votes for or against a resolution.

 

Copies of all resolutions passed, other than resolutions concerning ordinary
business, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism.  They will
shortly be available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

 Res.      Brief Description                                                             Votes for    %        Votes against  %      Total votes      Votes withheld

(ex. withheld)
 No.
 Ordinary resolutions
 1.        To adopt the Company's Annual Report and Financial Statements for the  year   273,693,077  100.00%  9,071          0.00%  273,702,148      23,144
           ended 31 December 2022
 2.        To declare a final dividend of 0.929 pence per ordinary share in respect of   273,722,920  100.00%  2,990          0.00%  273,725,910      8,135
           the year ended 31 December 2022
 3.        To elect Marzia Zafar as a Director of the Company                            273,681,720  99.99%   26,735         0.01%  273,708,455      25,590
 4.        To re-elect Alastair Lyons as a director of the Company                       272,248,061  99.53%   1,272,235      0.47%  273,520,296      213,749
 5.        To re-elect Lynda Shillaw as a director of the Company                        272,246,831  99.54%   1,269,292      0.46%  273,516,123      217,922
 6.        To re-elect Katerina Patmore as a director of the Company                     273,420,955  99.97%   95,168         0.03%  273,516,123      217,922
 7.        To re-elect Angela Bromfield as a director of the Company                     272,242,630  99.53%   1,276,030      0.47%  273,518,660      215,385
 8.        To re-elect Ruth Cooke as a director of the Company                           272,323,219  99.56%   1,192,904      0.44%  273,516,123      217,922
 9.        To re-elect Lisa Scenna as a director of the Company                          273,418,088  99.96%   102,168        0.04%  273,520,256      213,789
 10.       To re-elect Patrick O'Donnell Bourke as a director of the Company             273,498,619  99.99%   21,677         0.01%  273,520,296      213,749
 11.       To re-elect Steven Underwood as a director of the Company                     273,490,341  99.99%   26,955         0.01%  273,517,296      216,749
 12.       To re-elect Martyn Bowes as a director of the Company                         273,485,092  99.99%   30,819         0.01%  273,515,911      218,134
 13.       To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December  271,452,473  99.25%   2,061,712      0.75%  273,514,185      219,860
           2022
 14.       To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the auditors of the Company                273,624,811  99.97%   91,389         0.03%  273,716,200      17,845
 15.       To give authority to the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration    273,701,536  99.99%   18,330         0.01%  273,719,866      14,179
 16.       To authorise political donations                                              271,356,179  99.14%   2,359,737      0.86%  273,715,916      18,129
 17.       Authority to allot shares                                                     273,644,065  99.97%   77,226         0.03%  273,721,291      12,754

 Special resolutions
 18.       Authority to dis-apply pre-emption rights                                     258,585,399  94.47%   15,136,810     5.53%  273,722,209      11,836
 19.       To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares                           273,486,325  99.91%   239,685        0.09%  273,726,010      8,035
 20.       To reduce notice of general meetings (other than AGM) to 14 clear days        273,527,693  99.93%   191,486        0.07%  273,719,179      14,866

 

 

Notice of interim results

The Company will be publishing its unaudited interim results for the half year
ended 30 June 2023 on Tuesday 12 September 2023.

 

 

-ENDS-

 

Enquiries

 Harworth Group plc
 Chris Birch, General Counsel and Company Secretary        Tel: +44 (0)114 349 3131
 Tom Loughran, Head of Investor and Stakeholder Relations

 

NOTES TO EDITORS

 

ABOUT HARWORTH GROUP PLC

Listed on the Premium Segment of the Main Market, Harworth Group plc (LSE:
HWG) is a leading sustainable regenerator of land and property for development
and investment which owns, develops and manages a portfolio of over 13,000
acres of land on around 100 sites located throughout the North of England and
Midlands. The Group specialises in the regeneration of large, complex sites,
in particular former industrial sites, into new residential and industrial
& logistics developments. Visit www.harworthgroup.com
(http://www.harworthgroup.com/)  for further information.

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