Result of AGM

RNS Number : 8946R

Home Retail Group Plc

01 July 2015

 



Home Retail Group plc

(the "Company")

Results of Annual General Meeting 1 July 2015

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 polls were as follows:

Resolution		Votes In Favour		% Cast	Votes Against		% Cast		* Votes Withheld
1	To receive the directors' report, auditors' report and financial statements		585,680,326	100.00%	17,377	0.00%		73,012
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report		573,173,898	99.56%	2,506,028	0.44%		10,090,789
3	To declare a final dividend		585,739,183	100.00%	20,989	0.00%		10,543
4	To re-elect Richard Ashton		583,756,228	99.67%	1,944,052	0.33%		70,435
5	To re-elect John Coombe		583,514,452	99.63%	2,186,148	0.37%		70,115
6	To re-elect Mike Darcey		584,610,752	99.81%	1,090,342	0.19%		69,621
7	To re-elect Ian Durant		554,260,537	99.52%	2,652,223	0.48%		28,857,955
8	To re-elect Cath Keers		584,207,650	99.74%	1,497,116	0.26%		65,949
9	To re-elect Jacqueline de Rojas		584,608,394	99.81%	1,097,465	0.19%		64,856
10	To re-elect John Walden		565,045,134	96.47%	20,657,415	3.53%		68,166
11	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors		574,704,658	99.90%	576,029	0.10%		10,490,028
12	To authorise the directors to fix the auditors' remuneration		585,497,637	99.96%	221,424	0.04%		51,654
13	To authorise political donations /incur EU political expenditure		568,595,196	97.08%	17,088,588	2.92%		86,931
14	To authorise the directors to allot unissued shares		547,120,059	93.41%	38,602,166	6.59%		48,175
15	To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights		499,854,256	85.34%	85,850,309	14.66%		66,150
16	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares		583,267,647	99.93%	404,428	0.07%		2,098,640
17	To authorise meetings being called on not less than 14 working days' notice		543,390,977	92.77%	42,361,571	7.23%		18,166
18	To extend the termination date of the Company's Plans by 12 months		584,689,987	99.83%	991,026	0.17%		89,702

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

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

Copies of all resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

The voting results will also shortly be available to view on the Home Retail Group plc website at http://www.homeretailgroup.com/investor-centre/agm/

Gordon Bentley

Company Secretary

 

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