Result of AGM

RNS Number : 8136S

Dunelm Group plc

12 November 2013

 



Dunelm Group plc

(the 'Company')

Results of Annual General Meeting

12 November 2013

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 9.30am on 12 November 2013 at The Old Palace Hotel, Minster Yard, Lincoln, LN2 1PU, the resolutions set out in Part 6 of the Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 4 October 2013 were duly passed.

Voting on all resolutions was by way of a show of hands, apart from resolution 17, where the voting was by poll as required by the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers.  A copy of this announcement will shortly be available on the Company's website at www.dunelm.com.

 Prior to the meeting proxy votes had been received as follows:

Resolution	Votes for	% of votes cast	Votes against	% of votes cast	Votes withheld	% withheld
1 - Approve Accounts	187,172,696	100	0	0	188,731	0.1
2 - Approve dividend	187,361,413	100	0	0	0	0
3 - Re-elect G Cooper	187,254,739	99.9	103,723	0.1	16	0
4 - Re-elect W L Adderley	183,222,448	97.8	4,136,614	2.2	216	0
5 - Re-elect N Wharton	187,204,527	99.9	154,542	0.1	159	0
6 - Re-elect D Stead	187,204,527	99.9	154,542	0.1	159	0
7 - Re-elect M Sears	185,317,526	98.9	2,041,543	1.1	16	0
8 - Re-elect S Emeny	186,479,217	99.5	879,995	0.5	16	0
9 - Re-elect M Davies	186,477,717	99.5	879,995	0.5	1,516	0
10 - Re-elect L Doherty	186,478,817	99.5	879,995	0.5	416	0
11 - Approve Remuneration report	186,874,938	99.7	480,666	0.3	5,246	0
12 - Appoint auditors	183,426,193	97.9	3,931,425	2.1	1,610	0
13 - Auditors' remuneration	183,546,331	98.0	3,812,509	2.0	1,610	0
14 - Authority to allot shares	187,299,371	99.7	57,947	0.1	1,410	0
15 - Dis-apply pre-emption rights	187,348,855	99.9	8,563	0.1	1,310	0
16- Approve own share  purchases	187,057,867	99.9	246,811	0.1	55,072	0
17 - Rule 9 waiver - purchase own shares*	55,702,567	73.2	20,340,983	26.8	79,054	0
18-  Approve Executive Share Option Plan	183,396,479	99.2	1,404,481	0.8	2,558,990	1.4
19 - General Meeting notice period 14 days	185,218,059	98.9	2,141,148	1.1	743	0

* Note that members of the Concert Party (as defined in the AGM Notice) were not eligible to vote on resolution 17. The number of ordinary shares held by the Concert Party is 111,237,247, 54.9% of the issued ordinary share capital in issue with voting rights.

The Company has 202,781,698 ordinary shares in issue with voting rights, and 52,233 ordinary shares in treasury.

Votes withheld do not count in the number of votes counted for or against a resolution.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, the full text of the resolutions passed has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

The annual report and accounts and the AGM Notice are available in the investor section of the Company's website at www.dunelm.com.

Name of authorised Company official responsible for making this notification:

Dawn Durrant, Company Secretary

0116 2644356

 

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