Result of AGM

RNS Number : 5214J

Home Retail Group Plc

30 June 2011

 



Home Retail Group plc

(the "Company")

Results of Annual General Meeting 2011

The Board of Home Retail Group plc is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting today were duly passed.  The results of the poll were as follows:

	Votes For	% Cast	Votes Against	% Cast	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1:  To receive the Directors' Report, Auditors' Report and Financial Statements of the Company for the 52 weeks ended 26 February 2011	537,867,984	99.94	334,763	0.06	6,013,144
Resolution 2:  To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the 52 weeks ended 26 February 2011	483,474,173	90.97	47,984,348	9.03	12,757,415
Resolution 3: To declare a final dividend of 10.0p per share	543,919,126	99.99	14,005	0.01	282,760
Resolution 4: To re-elect  Oliver Stocken as a Director	527,107,517	96.92	16,773,554	3.08	334,820
Resolution 5: To re-elect  Richard Ashton as a Director	539,207,847	99.14	4,683,753	0.86	324,291
Resolution 6: To re-elect  John Coombe as a Director	539,476,774	99.19	4,409,597	0.81	329,520
Resolution 7: To re-elect  Mike Darcey as a Director	539,472,168	99.19	4,408,599	0.81	335,124
Resolution 8: To re-elect  Terry Duddy as a Director	520,957,302	95.78	22,932,997	4.22	325,592
Resolution 9: To re-appoint the auditor	524,082,435	98.56	7,661,649	1.44	12,471,807
Resolution 10: To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration	523,137,852	96.18	20,771,825	3.82	306,214
Resolution 11: To authorise political donations and expenditure	534,197,342	99.50	2,675,778	0.50	7,342,771
Resolution 12: To authorise the directors to allot unissued shares	509,714,957	95.72	22,779,975	4.48	11,720,959
Resolution 13: To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights                                                                   (Special Resolution)	536,252,950	99.88	650,860	0.12	7,312,081
Resolution 14:  To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares                                                 (Special Resolution)	538,115,699	99.97	147,106	0.03	5,953,086
Resolution 15: To authorise the Company to  call general meetings other than AGMs on not less than 14 days notice (Special Resolution)	481,778,394	89.50	56,524,119	10.50	5,913,378

The total number of shares in issue is 813,445,001 ordinary shares of 10 pence each.

Votes withheld are not a vote in law, and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution.  

Copies of all resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do. 

The voting results will also shortly be available to view on the Home Retail Group plc website at www.homeretailgroup.com/home/investors/agm/.

Gordon Bentley

Secretary

30 June 2011

 

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