REG - Howden Joinery Grp - Result of AGM

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RNS Number : 3122L  Howden Joinery Group PLC  12 May 2022

 

HOWDEN JOINERY GROUP PLC

(the "Company")

 

 

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND EXTERNAL AUDITOR APPOINTMENT

 

 

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 12 May 2022, all
resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a poll with the required
majorities. The full text of each resolution is contained in the Notice of
Annual General Meeting. Resolutions 1 to 16 were passed as ordinary
resolutions. Resolutions 17 to 19 were passed as special resolutions.

 

All valid proxy votes (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form)
were included in the poll taken at the meeting. The total number of ordinary
shares in issue (excluding shares held in treasury) at the close of business
on 11 May 2022 was 580,889,475.

 

The final votes received in respect of each resolution put to the meeting were
as set out below:

 

                                                                                              Votes for (including discretionary votes)  %             Votes       %         Total number of votes validly cast  % of the Company's issued share capital represented by votes validly cast  Votes withheld*

                                                                                                                                          Votes for    against     Votes

                                                                                                                                                                   against
 Ordinary Resolutions
 1            To receive and adopt the Annual Report & Accounts                               437,015,394                                99.99%        38,412      0.01%     437,053,806                         75.04                                                                      5,807,229
 2            To approve the Directors' Remuneration  Report                                  401,696,575                                90.72%        41,108,045  9.28%     442,804,620                         76.02                                                                      55,715
 3            To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy                                   397,988,811                                90.67%        40,944,575  9.33%     438,933,386                         75.36                                                                      3,928,507
 4            To declare a final dividend of 15.2 pence per ordinary share                    441,018,664                                99.59%        1,829,130   0.41%     442,847,794                         76.03                                                                      14,037
 5            To re-elect Karen Caddick                                                       417,058,000                                95.01%        21,888,595  4.99%     438,946,595                         75.36                                                                      3,915,420
 6            To re-elect Andrew Cripps                                                       432,343,553                                98.50%        6,602,227   1.50%     438,945,780                         75.36                                                                      3,915,913
 7            To re-elect Geoff Drabble                                                       394,665,589                                89.91%        44,279,889  10.09%    438,945,478                         75.36                                                                      3,915,598
 8            To re-elect Louise Fowler                                                       432,336,291                                98.49%        6,607,580   1.51%     438,943,871                         75.36                                                                      3,916,135
 9            To re-elect Paul Hayes                                                          436,087,192                                99.35%        2,857,738   0.65%     438,944,930                         75.36                                                                      3,915,193
 10           To re-elect Andrew Livingston                                                   438,422,872                                99.88%        527,857     0.12%     438,950,729                         75.36                                                                      3,911,085
 11           To re-elect Richard Pennycook                                                   408,142,527                                95.64%        18,600,185  4.36%     426,742,712                         73.27                                                                      16,118,059
 12           To re-elect Debbie White                                                        379,638,753                                86.49%        59,307,249  13.51%    438,946,002                         75.36                                                                      3,915,405
 13           To appoint KPMG LLP ('KPMG') as auditor                                         437,510,967                                98.80%        5,322,793   1.20%     442,833,760                         76.03                                                                      27,269
 14           To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration              442,024,885                                99.82%        809,039     0.18%     442,833,924                         76.03                                                                      27,540
 15           To renew authority to make political donations                                  432,426,322                                97.66%        10,356,065  2.34%     442,782,387                         76.02                                                                      79,985
 16           To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares                               424,324,414                                95.83%        18,461,742  4.17%     442,786,156                         76.02                                                                      75,993
 Special Resolutions
 17           To renew the Directors' authority for the disapplication of pre-emption rights  437,196,704                                99.60%        1,745,247   0.40%     438,941,951                         75.36                                                                      3,919,957
 18           To renew the Directors' authority to make market purchases of the Company's     436,991,348                                98.96%        4,604,205   1.04%     441,595,553                         75.82                                                                      1,265,745
              own shares
 19           To authorise general meetings to be held on 14 clear days' notice               431,824,152                                97.51%        11,015,829  2.49%     442,839,981                         76.03                                                                      21,059

*A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law. Votes "withheld" were not counted in
the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against each of the
resolutions.

 

Full details of the poll results will also be available on the Company's
website: www.howdenjoinerygroupplc.com/investors/shareholder/agm/
(http://www.howdenjoinerygroupplc.com/investors/shareholder/agm/)

 

In accordance with the Listing Rules, a copy of the resolutions passed, other
than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism
and will be available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

 

 

Enquiries

Forbes McNaughton, Company Secretary:
                +44 (0) 207 535 1137

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