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RNS Number : 0925H  Howden Joinery Group PLC  01 May 2025

 

1 May 2025

HOWDEN JOINERY GROUP PLC

(the "Company")

 

 

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

 

 

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 1 May 2025, 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 17 were passed as ordinary
resolutions. Resolutions 18 to 20 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 30 April 2025 was 548,585,474.

 

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                               454,372,129                                99.81%        843,206     0.19%     455,215,335                         82.96                                                                      5,342,892
 2            To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report                                   370,021,567                                80.49%        89,709,634  19.51%    459,731,201                         83.78                                                                      827,273
 3            To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy                                   453,171,778                                99.50%        2,273,427   0.50%     455,445,205                         83.00                                                                      5,113,269
 4            To declare a final dividend of 16.3 pence per ordinary share                    460,538,342                                100.00%       6,118       0.00%     460,544,460                         83.93                                                                      14,014
 5            To elect Roisin Currie                                                          450,519,835                                97.84%        9,946,316   2.16%     460,466,151                         83.91                                                                      92,323
 6            To elect Tim Lodge                                                              455,310,470                                98.88%        5,158,147   1.12%     460,468,617                         83.91                                                                      89,857
 7            To elect Suzy Neubert                                                           456,199,489                                99.07%        4,267,432   0.93%     460,466,921                         83.91                                                                      91,553
 8            To re-elect Louis Eperjesi                                                      449,498,580                                97.62%        10,973,702  2.38%     460,472,282                         83.92                                                                      86,192
 9            To re-elect Louise Fowler                                                       446,223,818                                96.91%        14,247,022  3.09%     460,470,840                         83.91                                                                      86,905
 10           To re-elect Paul Hayes                                                          459,332,612                                99.75%        1,144,197   0.25%     460,476,809                         83.92                                                                      81,462
 11           To re-elect Andrew Livingston                                                   460,448,386                                99.99%        29,737      0.01%     460,478,123                         83.92                                                                      81,567
 12           To re-elect Vanda Murray                                                        445,693,269                                96.79%        14,778,521  3.21%     460,471,790                         83.92                                                                      86,684
 13           To re-elect Peter Ventress                                                      428,404,877                                93.83%        28,173,674  6.17%     456,578,551                         83.21                                                                      3,979,923
 14           To reappoint KPMG LLP ('KPMG') as auditor                                       460,151,059                                99.92%        358,028     0.08%     460,509,087                         83.92                                                                      49,387
 15           To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration              460,179,719                                99.92%        352,918     0.08%     460,532,637                         83.93                                                                      25,930
 16           To renew authority to make political donations                                  450,092,054                                97.79%        10,167,234  2.21%     460,259,288                         83.88                                                                      300,347
 17           To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares                               445,335,401                                96.71%        15,138,122  3.29%     460,473,523                         83.92                                                                      85,044
 Special Resolutions
 18           To renew the Directors' authority for the disapplication of pre-emption rights  455,648,879                                99.07%        4,296,437   0.93%     459,945,316                         83.82                                                                      613,158
 19           To renew the Directors' authority to make market purchases of the Company's     459,517,368                                99.81%        881,853     0.19%     460,399,221                         83.90                                                                      159,346
              own shares
 20           To authorise general meetings to be held on 14 clear days' notice               448,441,389                                97.37%        12,093,516  2.63%     460,534,905                         83.93                                                                      23,662

*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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