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Results of Annual General Meeting

02 May 2024

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.  


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Forbes McNaughton, Company Secretary:                                +44 (0) 207 535 1110

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