Result of AGM

RNS Number : 5479I

Home Retail Group Plc

03 July 2013

 



Home Retail Group plc

(the "Company")

Results of Annual General Meeting 2013

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 for the financial period ended 2 March 2013	622,494,835	99.99	40,080	0.01	10,786,530
Resolution 2:  To approve the directors' remuneration Report contained in the annual report and financial statements of the Company for the financial period ended 2 March 2013	560,339,295	93.61	38,227,567	6.39	34,754,583
Resolution 3: To declare a final dividend of 2.0p per ordinary share for the 52 weeks ended 2 March 2013	633,011,229	100.00	7,677	0.00	302,539
Resolution 4: To re-elect Richard Ashton as a Director of the Company	629,843,166	99.51	3,073,561	0.49	404,718
Resolution 5: To re-elect John Coombe as a Director of the Company	624,532,374	99.31	4,370,581	0.69	4,418,490
Resolution 6: To re-elect Mike Darcey as a Director of the Company	629,855,580	99.52	3,048,637	0.48	417,228
Resolution 7: To re-elect Terry Duddy as a Director of the Company	617,511,669	97.57	15,384,101	2.43	425,675
Resolution 8: To re-elect Ian Durant as a Director of the Company	629,466,060	99.46	3,432,733	0.54	422,652
Resolution 9: To re-elect Cath Keers as a Director of the Company	622,111,147	99.39	3,790,444	0.61	7,419,854
Resolution 10: To elect Jacqueline de Rojas as a Director of the Company	631,648,274	99.80	1,262,965	0.20	410,206
Resolution 11: To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company	625,409,374	99.91	573,209	0.09	7,338,862
Resolution 12: To authorise the directors to fix the auditors' remuneration	632,713,989	99.96	266,409	0.04	341,047
Resolution 13: To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations to EU political organisations/incur EU political expenditure	587,399,774	94.37	35,049,458	5.63	10,872,213
Resolution 14: To authorise the directors to allot unissued shares	453,672,052	71.68	179,272,139	28.32	377,254
Resolution 15: To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights (Special Resolution)	543,341,892	85.85	89,564,728	14.15	414,825
Resolution 16:  To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares  (Special Resolution)	620,348,972	99.84	988,648	0.16	11,983,825
Resolution 17: To authorise the Company to  call general meetings (other than AGMs) on not less than 14 days' notice  (Special Resolution)	572,850,302	92.01	49,712,662	7.99	10,758,481

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

3 July 2013

 

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