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