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Results of Annual General Meeting

04 May 2023

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 4 May 2023, 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 3 May 2023 was 552,030,794.

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

406,604,857

99.90%

421,127

0.10%

407,025,984

73.73

5,668,680

2

To approve the Directors' Remuneration  Report

353,118,407

86.06%

57,182,970

13.94%

410,301,377

74.33

2,392,924

3

To  declare a final dividend of 15.9 pence per ordinary share

412,677,353

100.00%

6,974

0.00%

412,684,327

74.76

10,362

4

To elect Peter Ventress

397,118,769

96.23%

15,539,179

3.77%

412,657,948

74.75

35,172

5

To re-elect Karen Caddick

380,137,913

93.95%

24,492,582

6.05%

404,630,495

73.30

8,063,619

6

To re-elect Andrew Cripps

380,585,156

94.06%

24,042,621

5.94%

404,627,777

73.30

8,066,371

7

To re-elect Louise Fowler

393,690,194

97.30%

10,937,916

2.70%

404,628,110

73.30

8,066,685

8

To re-elect Paul Hayes

410,117,873

99.39%

2,497,603

1.61%

412,615,476

74.75

78,224

9

To re-elect Andrew Livingston

411,917,452

99.83%

701,542

0.17%

412,618,994

74.75

75,135

10

To re-elect Debbie White

386,038,703

96.46%

14,187,661

3.54%

400,226,364

72.50

12,468,431

11

To reappoint KPMG LLP ('KPMG') as auditor

408,114,002

98.90%

4,551,947

1.10%

412,665,949

74.75

28,488

12

To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration

412,623,005

99.99%

46,836

0.01%

412,669,841

74.75

25,477

13

To renew authority to make political donations

405,324,262

98.24%

7,276,798

1.76%

412,601,060

74.74

94,147

14

To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares

402,978,788

97.65%

9,681,107

2.35%

412,659,895

74.75

35,330

Special Resolutions

       

15

To renew the Directors' authority for the disapplication of pre-emption rights

410,239,315

99.75%

1,015,392

0.25%

411,254,707

74.50

1,439,913

16

To renew the Directors' authority to make market purchases of the Company's own shares

406,831,377

98.81%

4,906,318

1.19%

411,737,695

74.59

957,319

*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:                                +44 (0) 207 535 1110

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