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Howden Joinery Group PLC
06 May 2021
HOWDEN JOINERY GROUP PLC
(the "Company")
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 6 May 2021,
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
15 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 16 to 18 were
passed as special resolutions.
The AGM was convened with the requisite quorum of at least two
shareholders (or their corporate representatives or proxies). The
AGM comprised only the formal business as set out in the Notice of
AGM (dated 17 March 2021).
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 5 May 2021 was
597,296,306.
The final votes received in respect of each resolution put to
the meeting were as set out below:
% of the
Company's
issued
share capital
Votes for Total number represented
(including % % of votes by votes
discretionary Votes Votes Votes validly validly Votes
votes) for against against cast cast withheld*
Ordinary
Resolutions
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To receive
and adopt the
Annual Report
1 & Accounts 470,459,793 99.91% 412,574 0.09% 470,872,367 78.83% 5,551,921
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To approve
the Directors'
Remuneration
2 Report 454,168,793 95.36% 22,107,554 4.64% 476,276,347 79.74% 147,941
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To declare
a final
3 dividend 474,361,001 99.59% 1,946,443 0.41% 476,307,444 79.74% 116,844
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To elect Paul
4 Hayes 475,440,706 99.83% 831,737 0.17% 476,272,443 79.74% 151,845
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To re-elect
5 Karen Caddick 473,870,318 99.49% 2,406,457 0.51% 476,276,775 79.74% 147,513
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To re-elect
6 Andrew Cripps 469,842,585 98.65% 6,431,888 1.35% 476,274,473 79.74% 149,815
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To re-elect
7 Geoff Drabble 412,648,905 88.72% 52,468,080 11.28% 465,116,985 77.87% 11,307,303
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To re-elect
8 Louise Fowler 474,581,427 99.64% 1,695,192 0.36% 476,276,619 79.74% 147,669
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To re-elect
Andrew
9 Livingston 476,253,103 100.00% 22,584 0.00% 476,275,687 79.74% 148,601
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To re-elect
Richard
10 Pennycook 455,963,538 99.03% 4,448,350 0.97% 460,411,888 77.08% 16,012,400
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To re-elect
11 Debbie White 474,585,056 99.64% 1,691,313 0.36% 476,276,369 79.74% 147,919
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To re-appoint
Deloitte LLP
12 as the Auditor 468,371,170 98.34% 7,917,760 1.66% 476,288,930 79.74% 135,358
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To authorise
the Directors
to determine
the
remuneration
13 of the Auditor 475,123,179 99.76% 1,163,350 0.24% 476,286,529 79.74% 137,759
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To renew
authority
to make
political
14 donations 464,088,858 97.54% 11,710,431 2.46% 475,799,289 79.66% 624,999
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To renew the
Directors'
authority to
15 allot shares 452,239,291 94.93% 24,147,676 5.07% 476,386,967 79.76% 37,321
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Special Resolutions
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To renew the
Directors'
authority for
the
disapplication
of pre-emption
16 rights 472,929,790 99.98% 90,445 0.02% 473,020,235 79.19% 3,404,053
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To renew the
Directors'
authority to
make market
purchases of
the Company's
17 own shares 470,729,352 98.91% 5,170,558 1.09% 475,899,910 79.68% 524,378
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To authorise
general
meetings
to be held
on 14 clear
18 days' notice 463,250,629 97.26% 13,043,317 2.74% 476,293,946 79.74% 130,342
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*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/
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 a t
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .
Enquiries
Forbes McNaughton, Company Secretary: +44 (0) 207 535 1137
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