Result of AGM

RNS Number : 4447S

Dunelm Group plc

16 November 2021

 

Dunelm Group plc

(the 'Company')

Results of Annual General Meeting

16 November 2021

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 11.30am on 16 November 2021 at Dunelm's Store Support Centre, Pontylue Way, Watermead Business Park, Syston, Leicestershire, LE7 1AD, the resolutions set out in Part 3 of the Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 14 October 2021 were duly passed.

Voting on all resolutions was by way of a show of hands, apart from resolution 27, where the voting was by poll as required by the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers. 

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

Number	Resolution Name	Number of Votes Against	% of Votes Against	Number of Votes For & Discretionary	% of Votes For & Discretionary	Number of Votes Withheld*	% of Votes Withheld*
01	Accounts	5,529	0.00%	185,339,367	100.00%	291,206	0.16%
02	Dividend	0	0.00%	185,633,127	100.00%	2,975	0.00%
03	Will Adderley	2,215,657	1.19%	183,418,503	98.81%	1,942	0.00%
04	Nick Wilkinson	630,581	0.34%	185,003,158	99.66%	2,363	0.00%
05	Laura Carr	630,894	0.34%	185,002,845	99.66%	2,363	0.00%
06	Andy Harrison	1,079,139	0.58%	183,823,191	99.42%	733,772	0.40%
07	Andy Harrison (ind)**	1,081,727	1.10%	97,480,487	98.90%	733,611	0.74%
08	Marion Sears	1,571,593	0.85%	184,062,169	99.15%	2,340	0.00%
09	Marion Sears (ind)**	1,418,031	1.43%	97,876,003	98.57%	1,791	0.00%
10	William Reeve	254,208	0.14%	185,310,951	99.86%	70,943	0.04%
11	William Reeve (ind)**	254,271	0.26%	98,971,353	99.74%	70,201	0.07%
12	Peter Ruis	253,715	0.14%	185,379,454	99.86%	2,933	0.00%
13	Peter Ruis (ind)**	253,778	0.26%	99,039,663	99.74%	2,384	0.00%
14	Ian Bull	328,643	0.18%	185,305,119	99.82%	2,340	0.00%
15	Ian Bull (ind)**	328,706	0.33%	98,965,521	99.67%	1,598	0.00%
16	Arja Taaveniku	6,709	0.00%	185,625,653	100.00%	3,740	0.00%
17	Arja Taaveniku (ind)**	6,931	0.01%	99,284,010	99.99%	4,884	0.00%
18	Vijay Talwar	17,708	0.01%	185,614,654	99.99%	3,740	0.00%
19	Vijay Talwar (ind)**	16,668	0.02%	99,274,273	99.98%	4,884	0.00%
20	Remuneration Report	2,642,335	1.42%	182,896,339	98.58%	97,528	0.05%
21	Auditors	73,719	0.04%	185,558,161	99.96%	4,222	0.00%
22	Auditors' Remuneration	5,100	0.00%	185,628,220	100.00%	2,782	0.00%
23	Allot Securities	549,534	0.30%	185,085,123	99.70%	1,445	0.00%
24	Allot Equity	191,284	0.10%	185,442,220	99.90%	2,598	0.00%
25	Allot Further Equity	3,725,208	2.01%	181,906,900	97.99%	3,994	0.00%
26	Purchase Shares	2,350,707	1.27%	183,127,858	98.73%	157,537	0.08%
27	Rule 9 waiver**	3,183,275	3.21%	96,055,556	96.79%	56,994	0.06%
28	14 Days	2,032,250	1.09%	183,601,070	98.91%	2,782	0.00%

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

At the date of the AGM, the Company has 203,411,015 ordinary shares in issue, with 135,889 ordinary shares in treasury. Total voting rights are therefore 203,275,126.

**Controlling Shareholders (as defined in the AGM Notice) were not eligible to vote on resolutions 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19. Members of the Concert Party (as defined in the AGM Notice) were not eligible to vote on resolution 27. The Controlling Shareholders and the Concert Party Shareholders were the same parties at the date of the AGM; at that date they hold 86,340,279 Ordinary Shares, 42.5% of the issued ordinary share capital (excluding treasury shares) with voting rights.

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 shortly be available at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

The annual report and accounts and the AGM Notice and a copy of this announcement are available in the investor section of the Company's website at https://corporate. www.dunelm.com .

Name of authorised Company official responsible for making this notification:

Dawn Durrant, Company Secretary

[e-mail] .

 

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