Result of AGM

RNS Number : 5814O

Home Retail Group Plc

30 June 2010

 



Home Retail Group plc

(the "Company")

Results of Annual General Meeting 2010

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 are 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 27 February 2010	609,653,983	99.93	413,809	0.07	397,652
Resolution 2: To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the 52 weeks ended 27 February 2010	560,827,229	92.14	47,817,161	7.86	1,820,853
Resolution 3: To declare the payment of a final dividend of 10.0p per share	610,204,548	99.99	1,622	0.01	259,074
Resolution 4: To elect Mike Darcey as a director	607,228,752	99.53	2,866,230	0.47	370,262
Resolution 5: To re-elect Penny Hughes  as a director	607,268,641	99.52	2,909,184	0.48	287,419
Resolution 6: To re-appoint the auditor	608,743,460	99.76	1,455,675	0.24	266,109
Resolution 7: To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditor	609,517,845	99.89	671,091	0.11	276,308
Resolution 8: To authorise political donations and expenditure	599,674,568	98.44	9,523,186	1.56	1,267,490
Resolution 9: To authorise the directors to allot unissued shares	563,362,173	93.01	42,348,175	6.99	4,754,896
Resolution 10: To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights                                                                   (Special Resolution)	600,684,213	99.73	1,648,256	0.27	8,132,775
Resolution 11:  To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares                                                 (Special Resolution)	602,315,482	99.99	84,947	0.01	8,064,815
Resolution 12: To authorise the Company to  call general meetings other than AGMs on not less than 14 days notice (Special Resolution)	554,508,656	92.24	46,658,882	7.76	9,297,706
Resolution 13:  To authorise the change to the Company's Performance Share Plan	552,385,027	93.96	35,520,493	6.04	22,559,723
Resolution 14: To adopt new Articles of Association (Special Resolution)	601,514,016	99.87	792,879	0.13	8,158,349

The total number of shares in issue is 847,390,001 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 shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility at:  

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf

London

E14 5HS  

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 2010

 

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