Results of AGM

Dunelm Group plc

21 November 2024

 

21 November 2024

Dunelm Group plc

(the 'Company')

Results of Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 11.30am on 21 November 2024 at Watermead Business Park, Syston, Leicester, LE7 1AD ("AGM"), a poll was taken on all resolutions set out in Part 4 of the Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM Notice"). All resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed by the members entitled to vote.

The results of the poll incorporating proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting are as follows:

#	Resolution Name	Number of Votes For & Discretionary	% of Votes For & Discretionary	Number of Votes Against	% of Votes Against	Votes Total	% ISC	Votes Withheld
Votes of all shareholders
01	Accounts	179,537,198	100.00%	1,574	0.00%	179,538,772	88.63	237,748
02	Dividend	179,702,576	99.96%	73,087	0.04%	179,775,663	88.75	857
03	Alison Brittain	179,410,062	99.84%	294,141	0.16%	179,704,203	88.71	72,317
04	Will Adderley	178,190,755	99.12%	1,583,129	0.88%	179,773,884	88.75	2,636
05	Nick Wilkinson	179,061,546	99.60%	711,609	0.40%	179,773,155	88.75	3,365
06	Karen Witts	179,277,414	99.72%	495,750	0.28%	179,773,164	88.75	3,356
07	Ian Bull	179,553,082	99.88%	220,333	0.12%	179,773,415	88.75	3,105
08	Ajay Kavan	179,606,698	99.91%	165,649	0.09%	179,772,347	88.75	4,173
09	Marion Sears	178,401,212	99.24%	1,372,301	0.76%	179,773,513	88.75	3,007
10	Arja Taaveniku	179,550,078	99.88%	221,675	0.12%	179,771,753	88.75	4,767
11	Vijay Talwar	179,547,507	99.88%	223,771	0.12%	179,771,278	88.74	5,242
12	Dan Taylor	179,604,628	99.94%	100,038	0.06%	179,704,666	88.71	71,854
13	Remuneration Report	178,411,057	99.29%	1,283,066	0.71%	179,694,123	88.71	71,397
14	Auditors	179,569,713	99.89%	193,494	0.11%	179,763,207	88.74	2,313
15	Auditors' Remuneration	179,750,825	99.99%	12,618	0.01%	179,763,443	88.74	2,077
16	Allot Securities	178,242,407	99.16%	1,516,726	0.84%	179,759,133	88.74	6,387
17	Allot Equity	179,677,157	99.95%	81,413	0.05%	179,758,570	88.74	6,950
18	Allot Further Equity	179,674,963	99.95%	83,607	0.05%	179,758,570	88.74	6,950
19	Purchase Shares	176,812,785	98.41%	2,847,893	1.59%	179,660,678	88.69	104,842
20	Rule 9 waiver	101,270,582	97.11%	3,016,062	2.89%	104,286,644	51.48	9,931
21	14 Days	177,441,465	98.71%	2,322,760	1.29%	179,764,225	88.74	1,295
Votes of independent shareholders only
03	Alison Brittain	103,941,117	99.72%	294,141	0.28%	104,235,258	82.01	72,317
07	Ian Bull	104,084,137	99.79%	220,333	0.21%	104,304,470	82.06	3,105
08	Ajay Kavan	104,137,753	99.84%	165,649	0.16%	104,303,402	82.06	4,173
09	Marion Sears	102,932,267	98.68%	1,372,301	1.32%	104,304,568	82.06	3,007
10	Arja Taaveniku	104,081,133	99.79%	221,675	0.21%	104,302,808	82.06	4,767
11	Vijay Talwar	104,078,562	99.79%	223,771	0.21%	104,302,333	82.06	5,242
12	Dan Taylor	104,135,683	99.90%	100,038	0.10%	104,235,721	82.01	71,854

Notes:

1.   At the date of the AGM, the Company has 203,426,835 ordinary shares in issue, with 856,188 ordinary shares in treasury. Total voting rights are therefore 202,570,647.

2.   The Controlling Shareholder and the Concert Party (each as defined in the AGM Notice) were the same parties at the date of the AGM. On that date they held 75,468,945 Ordinary Shares, 37.26% of the issued ordinary share capital (excluding treasury shares) with voting rights. Such persons were not eligible to vote on resolution 20. Resolutions 3 and 7-12 have been counted separately excluding such persons.

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

4.   Any proxy appointments giving discretion to 'the Chair of the meeting' have been included in the 'For' totals above.

In accordance with UKLR 6.4.2R, the full text of the resolutions passed, other than those relating to ordinary business will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

The Annual Report and Accounts, the AGM Notice and a copy of this announcement are available in the investor section of the Company's website at https://corporate.dunelm.com.

Name of authorised Company official responsible for making this notification:

Luisa Wright, Company Secretary

[e-mail].

 

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