Result of AGM

Howden Joinery Group PLC

02 May 2024

 

2 May 2024

HOWDEN JOINERY GROUP PLC

(the "Company")

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 2 May 2024, 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 14 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 15 to 17 were passed as special resolutions.

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 1 May 2024 was 549,510,893.

The final votes received in respect of each resolution put to the meeting were as set out below:

		Votes for (including discretionary votes)	%  Votes for	Votes against	% Votes against	Total number of votes validly cast	% of the Company's issued share capital represented by votes validly cast	Votes withheld*
Ordinary Resolutions
1	To receive and adopt the Annual Report & Accounts	447,988,723	99.76%	1,098,515	0.24%	449,087,238	81.72%	3,748,649
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration  Report	447,942,493	98.93%	4,846,037	1.07%	452,788,530	82.40%	47,066
3	To declare a final dividend of 16.2 pence per ordinary share	451,748,768	99.76%	1,073,683	0.24%	452,822,451	82.40%	14,578
4	To elect Louis Eperjesi	439,141,660	96.98%	13,655,175	3.02%	452,796,835	82.40%	35,757
5	To elect Vanda Murray	445,055,933	98.29%	7,743,860	1.71%	452,799,793	82.40%	34,855
6	To re-elect Andrew Cripps	426,169,120	94.13%	26,584,295	5.87%	452,753,415	82.39%	81,274
7	To re-elect Louise Fowler	431,464,885	95.30%	21,291,543	4.70%	452,756,428	82.39%	78,109
8	To re-elect Paul Hayes	448,919,484	99.15%	3,836,987	0.85%	452,756,471	82.39%	78,125
9	To re-elect Andrew Livingston	449,463,630	99.27%	3,296,819	0.73%	452,760,449	82.39%	75,251
10	To re-elect Peter Ventress	381,169,737	85.76%	63,279,355	14.24%	444,449,092	80.88%	8,384,542
11	To reappoint KPMG LLP ('KPMG') as auditor	449,302,629	99.23%	3,505,984	0.77%	452,808,613	82.40%	26,878
12	To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration	452,749,150	99.99%	57,063	0.01%	452,806,213	82.40%	28,451
13	To renew authority to make political donations	444,371,775	98.19%	8,212,826	1.81%	452,584,601	82.36%	251,189
14	To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares	436,997,204	96.52%	15,754,923	3.48%	452,752,127	82.39%	83,451
Special Resolutions
15	To renew the Directors' authority for the disapplication of pre-emption rights	445,798,787	98.91%	4,891,475	1.09%	450,690,262	82.02%	2,144,718
16	To renew the Directors' authority to make market purchases of the Company's own shares	447,689,791	98.99%	4,559,653	1.01%	452,249,444	82.30%	586,910
17	To authorise general meetings to be held on 14 clear days' notice	441,849,694	97.58%	10,960,978	2.42%	452,810,672	82.40%	25,370

*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 at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.  

Enquiries

Forbes McNaughton, Company Secretary:                             [phone]

 

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