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RNS Number : 4668Y  Howden Joinery Group PLC  04 May 2023

 

4 May 2023

HOWDEN JOINERY GROUP PLC

(the "Company")

 

 

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

 

 

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 4 May 2023, 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 14 were passed as ordinary
resolutions. Resolutions 15 to 17 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 3 May 2023 was 552,030,794.

 

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                               406,604,857                                99.90%        421,127     0.10%     407,025,984                         73.73                                                                      5,668,680
 2            To approve the Directors' Remuneration  Report                                  353,118,407                                86.06%        57,182,970  13.94%    410,301,377                         74.33                                                                      2,392,924
 3            To declare a final dividend of 15.9 pence per ordinary share                    412,677,353                                100.00%       6,974       0.00%     412,684,327                         74.76                                                                      10,362
 4            To elect Peter Ventress                                                         397,118,769                                96.23%        15,539,179  3.77%     412,657,948                         74.75                                                                      35,172
 5            To re-elect Karen Caddick                                                       380,137,913                                93.95%        24,492,582  6.05%     404,630,495                         73.30                                                                      8,063,619
 6            To re-elect Andrew Cripps                                                       380,585,156                                94.06%        24,042,621  5.94%     404,627,777                         73.30                                                                      8,066,371
 7            To re-elect Louise Fowler                                                       393,690,194                                97.30%        10,937,916  2.70%     404,628,110                         73.30                                                                      8,066,685
 8            To re-elect Paul Hayes                                                          410,117,873                                99.39%        2,497,603   0.61%     412,615,476                         74.75                                                                      78,224
 9            To re-elect Andrew Livingston                                                   411,917,452                                99.83%        701,542     0.17%     412,618,994                         74.75                                                                      75,135
 10           To re-elect Debbie White                                                        386,038,703                                96.46%        14,187,661  3.54%     400,226,364                         72.50                                                                      12,468,431
 11           To reappoint KPMG LLP ('KPMG') as auditor                                       408,114,002                                98.90%        4,551,947   1.10%     412,665,949                         74.75                                                                      28,488
 12           To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration              412,623,005                                99.99%        46,836      0.01%     412,669,841                         74.75                                                                      25,477
 13           To renew authority to make political donations                                  405,324,262                                98.24%        7,276,798   1.76%     412,601,060                         74.74                                                                      94,147
 14           To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares                               402,978,788                                97.65%        9,681,107   2.35%     412,659,895                         74.75                                                                      35,330
 Special Resolutions
 15           To renew the Directors' authority for the disapplication of pre-emption rights  410,239,315                                99.75%        1,015,392   0.25%     411,254,707                         74.50                                                                      1,439,913
 16           To renew the Directors' authority to make market purchases of the Company's     406,831,377                                98.81%        4,906,318   1.19%     411,737,695                         74.59                                                                      957,319
              own shares
 17           To authorise general meetings to be held on 14 clear days' notice               402,497,083                                97.53%        10,180,069  2.47%     412,677,152                         74.76                                                                      16,856

*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 1110

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