Howden Joinery Group Plc's Annual General Meeting

16 May 2012

At the Annual General Meeting of Howden Joinery Group Plc held on 16 May 2012, 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 12 to 17 were passed as special business of the AGM. Resolutions 15 to 17 were passed as special resolutions.

The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue at the close of business on 15 May 2012 was 640,241,143.

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

Resolution Number Votes for (including discretionary votes) % Votes for Votes against % Votes against Total number of votes validly cast Percentage of the Company's issued share capital represented by votes validly cast Votes withheld*
1. Annual report & accounts 439,287,938 100.00 1,940 0.00 439,289,878 68.61% 11,842
2. Final Dividend 439,299,488 100.00 2,452 0.00 439,301,940 68.62% 30
3. Elect Mark Allen 438,249,836 99.76 1,037,498 0.24 439,287,334 68.61% 15,386
4. Re-elect Will Samuel 438,072,369 99.72 1,223,748 0.28 439,296,117 68.61% 6,603
5. Re-elect Angus Cockburn 438,246,016 99.76 1,043,849 0.24 439,289,865 68.61% 12,855
6. Re-elect Michael Wemms 438,252,686 99.76 1,046,447 0.24 439,299,133 68.61% 3,587
7. Re-elect Tiffany Hall 436,896,730 99.45 2,402,906 0.55 439,299,636 68.61% 3,084
8. Re-elect Matthew Ingle 438,655,851 99.85 640,883 0.15 439,296,734 68.61% 5,986
9. Re-elect Mark Robson 438,646,036 99.85 640,152 0.15 439,286,188 68.61% 16,532
10. Re-appoint Auditors 432,401,622 98.43 6,897,477 1.57 439,299,099 68.61% 3,620
11. Auditors' Remuneration 436,817,705 99.44 2,471,147 0.56 439,288,852 68.61% 13,868
12. Remuneration Report 424,705,318 98.21 7,719,118 1.79 432,424,436 67.54% 6,878,283
13. Authority to make political donations 435,683,011 99.27 3,205,216 0.73 438,888,227 68.55% 405,993
14. Authority to allot shares 420,067,478 97.14 12,379,011 2.86 432,446,489 67.54% 6,856,231
15. Disapply of pre-emption rights 433,908,415 99.97 108,629 0.03 434,017,044 67.79% 5,285,676
16. Purchase own shares 439,218,323 99.99 61,861 0.01 439,280,184 68.61% 22,536
17. Authority to call a general meeting on 14 clear days' notice 424,456,579 96.62 14,836,604 3.38 439,293,183 68.61% 9,537

*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.

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 www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

Full details of the poll results will also be available on the Company's website: http://www.howdenjoinerygroupplc.com/investors/shareholder/agm/

 

Enquiries should be directed to:

Caroline Bishop, Company Secretary: +44 (0)207 535 1140

 

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