Result of AGM

RNS Number : 5214J
Home Retail Group Plc
30 June 2011
 



Home Retail Group plc

(the "Company")

 

Results of Annual General Meeting 2011

 

The Board of Home Retail Group plc is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting today were duly passed.  The results of the poll were as follows:

 

Votes For

%

Cast

Votes

Against

%

Cast

Votes Withheld

Resolution 1:  To receive the Directors' Report, Auditors' Report and Financial Statements of the Company for the 52 weeks ended 26 February 2011

537,867,984

99.94

334,763

0.06

6,013,144

Resolution 2:  To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the 52 weeks ended 26 February 2011

483,474,173

90.97

47,984,348

9.03

12,757,415

Resolution 3: To declare a final dividend of 10.0p per share

543,919,126

99.99

14,005

0.01

282,760

Resolution 4: To re-elect  Oliver Stocken as a Director

527,107,517

96.92

16,773,554

3.08

334,820

Resolution 5: To re-elect  Richard Ashton as a Director

539,207,847

99.14

4,683,753

0.86

324,291

Resolution 6: To re-elect  John Coombe as a Director

539,476,774

99.19

4,409,597

0.81

329,520

Resolution 7: To re-elect  Mike Darcey as a Director

539,472,168

99.19

4,408,599

0.81

335,124

Resolution 8: To re-elect  Terry Duddy as a Director

520,957,302

95.78

22,932,997

4.22

325,592

Resolution 9: To re-appoint the auditor

524,082,435

98.56

7,661,649

1.44

12,471,807

Resolution 10: To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration

523,137,852

96.18

20,771,825

3.82

306,214

Resolution 11: To authorise political donations and expenditure

534,197,342

99.50

2,675,778

0.50

7,342,771

Resolution 12: To authorise the directors to allot unissued shares

509,714,957

95.72

22,779,975

4.48

11,720,959

Resolution 13: To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights                                                                   (Special Resolution)

536,252,950

99.88

650,860

0.12

7,312,081

 

Resolution 14:  To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares                                                 (Special Resolution)

538,115,699

99.97

147,106

0.03

5,953,086

Resolution 15: To authorise the Company to  call general meetings other than AGMs on not less than 14 days notice (Special Resolution)

481,778,394

89.50

56,524,119

10.50

5,913,378

 

The total number of shares in issue is 813,445,001 ordinary shares of 10 pence each.

 

Votes withheld are not a vote in law, and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution.  

 

Copies of all resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do. 

 

The voting results will also shortly be available to view on the Home Retail Group plc website at www.homeretailgroup.com/home/investors/agm/.

 

 

Gordon Bentley

Secretary

 

30 June 2011

 


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