Results of Annual General Mee

RNS Number : 1748Y

Home Retail Group Plc

02 July 2008

 



Home Retail Group plc

(the 'Company')

Results of Annual General Meeting 2008

The Board of Home Retail Group plc is pleased to

announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting earlier today were duly passed. The results of the polls are as follows:

	Votes For	% Cast	Votes Against	% Cast	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1:	606,333,074	99.77	1,403,385	0.23	3,820,083
To receive the 2008 Annual Report and Accounts
Resolution 2:	592,296,424	97.79	13,402,577	2.21	5,857,698
To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report
Resolution 3:	606,667,823	100.00	9,229	0.00	4,874,447
To declare a final dividend of 10.0p per share
Resolution 4:	600,377,584	98.78	7,404,363	1.22	3,766,051
To re-elect Terry Duddy as a director
Resolution 5:	606,506,993	99.79	1,253,163	0.21	3,791,891
To re-elect John Coombe as a director
Resolution 6:	589,619,950	99.63	2,217,990	0.37	19,692,607
To re-appoint the auditor
Resolution 7:	599,232,011	99.67	1,954,693	0.33	10,348,495
To authorise the Directors to fix the auditor's fees
Resolution 8:	600,443,050	99.25	4,555,722	0.75	6,557,727
To authorise political donations and expenditure
Resolution 9:	601,548,475	99.08	5,593,797	0.92	3,879,364
To renew the authority to allot shares
Resolution 10: (Special Resolution)	604,896,025	99.55	2,732,927	0.45	3,927,747
To renew the disapplication of pre-emption rights
Resolution 11: (Special Resolution)	606,346,273	99.76	1,433,305	0.24	3,772,469
To allow the Company to buy back shares
Resolution 12: (Special Resolution)	605,261,757	99.70	1,791,591	0.30	4,498,699
To adopt new articles of association
Resolution 13: (Special Resolution)	605,655,612	99.77	1,374,520	0.23	4,521,567
To amend the new articles of association

The total number of shares in issue is 877,445,001 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 shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility at:  

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf 

London

E14 5HS  

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

Gordon Bentley

Secretary

2 July 2008

 

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