At the Annual General Meeting of Howden Joinery Group Plc held on 9 May 2013, 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 8 May 2013 was 642,782,361.

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	% of the Company's issued share capital represented by votes validly cast	Votes withheld*
1	Annual report & accounts	481,403,734	99.98	98,374	0.02	481,502,108	74.91	2,010,500
2	Final Dividend	483,511,372	100.00	577	0.00	483,511,949	75.22	659
3	Re-elect Will Samuel	479,173,809	99.10	4,331,486	0.90	483,505,295	75.22	7,313
4	Re-elect Angus Cockburn	482,506,902	99.79	996,066	0.21	483,502,968	75.22	9,140
5	Re-elect Michael Wemms	481,236,317	99.53	2,268,478	0.47	483,504,795	75.22	7,813
6	Re-elect Tiffany Hall	482,498,874	99.79	1,007,537	0.21	483,506,411	75.22	6,197
7	Re-elect Mark Allen	482,510,008	99.79	994,887	0.21	483,504,895	75.22	7,713
8	Re-elect Matthew Ingle	482,946,001	99.88	558,467	0.12	483,504,468	75.22	8,140
9	Re-elect Mark Robson	482,957,177	99.89	548,041	0.11	483,505,218	75.22	7,390
10	Re-appoint Auditors	476,559,993	99.13	4,187,880	0.87	480,747,873	74.79	2,764,735
11	Auditors' Remuneration	478,711,801	99.16	4,040,521	0.84	482,752,322	75.10	759,286
12	Remuneration Report	453,252,534	98.49	6,958,534	1.51	460,211,068	71.60	23,301,040
13	Authority to make political donations	479,511,550	99.61	1,892,438	0.39	481,403,988	74.89	2,106,117
14	Authority to allot shares	474,967,157	98.24	8,514,875	1.76	483,482,032	75.22	30,546
15	Disapply of pre-emption rights	482,743,144	99.85	730,519	0.15	483,473,663	75.22	39,045
16	Purchase own shares	483,463,743	99.99	35,830	0.01	483,499,573	75.22	12,535
17	Authority to call a general meeting on 14 clear days' notice	466,690,604	96.52	16,816,269	3.48	483,506,873	75.22	5,735

*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: www.howdenjoinerygroupplc.com/investors/shareholder/agm/

 

Enquiries should be directed to:

Forbes McNaughton, Deputy Company Secretary: +44 (0)207 535 1137