Result of AGM

Harworth Group PLC

23 May 2023

 

23 May 2023                                                                                                                            LEI: 213800R8JSSGK2KPFG21

Harworth Group plc

Results of Annual General Meeting and notice of interim results

Annual General Meeting

Harworth Group plc (the "Company") announces that at its Annual General Meeting held at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday 23 May 2023 all resolutions in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 13 April 2023 were passed by the necessary majority on a show of hands.  

Details of proxy voting instructions received in advance of the Annual General Meeting are shown in the table below and will be posted on the Company's website, www.harworthgroup.com.

The number of ordinary shares in issue on 23 May 2023 was 323,434,802 ordinary shares.  A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of votes for or against a resolution.

Copies of all resolutions passed, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism.  They will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

Res. No.	Brief Description	Votes for	%	Votes against	%	Total votes (ex. withheld)	Votes withheld
Ordinary resolutions
1.	To adopt the Company's Annual Report and Financial Statements for the  year ended 31 December 2022	273,693,077	100.00%	9,071	0.00%	273,702,148	23,144
2.	To declare a final dividend of 0.929 pence per ordinary share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2022	273,722,920	100.00%	2,990	0.00%	273,725,910	8,135
3.	To elect Marzia Zafar as a Director of the Company	273,681,720	99.99%	26,735	0.01%	273,708,455	25,590
4.	To re-elect Alastair Lyons as a director of the Company	272,248,061	99.53%	1,272,235	0.47%	273,520,296	213,749
5.	To re-elect Lynda Shillaw as a director of the Company	272,246,831	99.54%	1,269,292	0.46%	273,516,123	217,922
6.	To re-elect Katerina Patmore as a director of the Company	273,420,955	99.97%	95,168	0.03%	273,516,123	217,922
7.	To re-elect Angela Bromfield as a director of the Company	272,242,630	99.53%	1,276,030	0.47%	273,518,660	215,385
8.	To re-elect Ruth Cooke as a director of the Company	272,323,219	99.56%	1,192,904	0.44%	273,516,123	217,922
9.	To re-elect Lisa Scenna as a director of the Company	273,418,088	99.96%	102,168	0.04%	273,520,256	213,789
10.	To re-elect Patrick O'Donnell Bourke as a director of the Company	273,498,619	99.99%	21,677	0.01%	273,520,296	213,749
11.	To re-elect Steven Underwood as a director of the Company	273,490,341	99.99%	26,955	0.01%	273,517,296	216,749
12.	To re-elect Martyn Bowes as a director of the Company	273,485,092	99.99%	30,819	0.01%	273,515,911	218,134
13.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2022	271,452,473	99.25%	2,061,712	0.75%	273,514,185	219,860
14.	To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the auditors of the Company	273,624,811	99.97%	91,389	0.03%	273,716,200	17,845
15.	To give authority to the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration	273,701,536	99.99%	18,330	0.01%	273,719,866	14,179
16.	To authorise political donations	271,356,179	99.14%	2,359,737	0.86%	273,715,916	18,129
17.	Authority to allot shares	273,644,065	99.97%	77,226	0.03%	273,721,291	12,754
Special resolutions
18.	Authority to dis-apply pre-emption rights	258,585,399	94.47%	15,136,810	5.53%	273,722,209	11,836
19.	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	273,486,325	99.91%	239,685	0.09%	273,726,010	8,035
20.	To reduce notice of general meetings (other than AGM) to 14 clear days	273,527,693	99.93%	191,486	0.07%	273,719,179	14,866

Notice of interim results

The Company will be publishing its unaudited interim results for the half year ended 30 June 2023 on Tuesday 12 September 2023. 

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Enquiries

Harworth Group plc
Chris Birch, General Counsel and Company Secretary	Tel: [phone]
Tom Loughran, Head of Investor and Stakeholder Relations

NOTES TO EDITORS

ABOUT HARWORTH GROUP PLC

Listed on the Premium Segment of the Main Market, Harworth Group plc (LSE: HWG) is a leading sustainable regenerator of land and property for development and investment which owns, develops and manages a portfolio of over 13,000 acres of land on around 100 sites located throughout the North of England and Midlands. The Group specialises in the regeneration of large, complex sites, in particular former industrial sites, into new residential and industrial & logistics developments. Visit www.harworthgroup.com for further information.

 

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