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RNS Number : 0560N  Howden Joinery Group PLC  02 May 2024

 

2 May 2024

HOWDEN JOINERY GROUP PLC

(the "Company")

 

 

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

 

 

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 2 May 2024, 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 1 May 2024 was 549,510,893.

 

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                               447,988,723                                99.76%        1,098,515   0.24%     449,087,238                         81.72%                                                                     3,748,649
 2            To approve the Directors' Remuneration  Report                                  447,942,493                                98.93%        4,846,037   1.07%     452,788,530                         82.40%                                                                     47,066
 3            To declare a final dividend of 16.2 pence per ordinary share                    451,748,768                                99.76%        1,073,683   0.24%     452,822,451                         82.40%                                                                     14,578
 4            To elect Louis Eperjesi                                                         439,141,660                                96.98%        13,655,175  3.02%     452,796,835                         82.40%                                                                     35,757
 5            To elect Vanda Murray                                                           445,055,933                                98.29%        7,743,860   1.71%     452,799,793                         82.40%                                                                     34,855
 6            To re-elect Andrew Cripps                                                       426,169,120                                94.13%        26,584,295  5.87%     452,753,415                         82.39%                                                                     81,274
 7            To re-elect Louise Fowler                                                       431,464,885                                95.30%        21,291,543  4.70%     452,756,428                         82.39%                                                                     78,109
 8            To re-elect Paul Hayes                                                          448,919,484                                99.15%        3,836,987   0.85%     452,756,471                         82.39%                                                                     78,125
 9            To re-elect Andrew Livingston                                                   449,463,630                                99.27%        3,296,819   0.73%     452,760,449                         82.39%                                                                     75,251
 10           To re-elect Peter Ventress                                                      381,169,737                                85.76%        63,279,355  14.24%    444,449,092                         80.88%                                                                     8,384,542
 11           To reappoint KPMG LLP ('KPMG') as auditor                                       449,302,629                                99.23%        3,505,984   0.77%     452,808,613                         82.40%                                                                     26,878
 12           To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration              452,749,150                                99.99%        57,063      0.01%     452,806,213                         82.40%                                                                     28,451
 13           To renew authority to make political donations                                  444,371,775                                98.19%        8,212,826   1.81%     452,584,601                         82.36%                                                                     251,189
 14           To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares                               436,997,204                                96.52%        15,754,923  3.48%     452,752,127                         82.39%                                                                     83,451
 Special Resolutions
 15           To renew the Directors' authority for the disapplication of pre-emption rights  445,798,787                                98.91%        4,891,475   1.09%     450,690,262                         82.02%                                                                     2,144,718
 16           To renew the Directors' authority to make market purchases of the Company's     447,689,791                                98.99%        4,559,653   1.01%     452,249,444                         82.30%                                                                     586,910
              own shares
 17           To authorise general meetings to be held on 14 clear days' notice               441,849,694                                97.58%        10,960,978  2.42%     452,810,672                         82.40%                                                                     25,370

*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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