Home Retail Group plc
(the "Company")
Results of Annual General Meeting 2012
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 |
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Resolution 1: To receive the Directors' Report, Auditors' Report and Financial Statements of the Company for the 53 weeks ended 3 March 2012 |
560,619,807 |
99.99 |
60,845 |
0.01 |
15,143,704 |
Resolution 2: To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the 53 weeks ended 3 March 2012 |
518,102,287 |
93.57 |
35,588,965 |
6.43 |
22,133,104 |
Resolution 3: To re-elect Richard Ashton as a Director |
572,928,080 |
99.89 |
653,092 |
0.11 |
2,243,184 |
Resolution 4: To re-elect John Coombe as a Director |
573,004,643 |
99.90 |
581,165 |
0.10 |
2,238,548 |
Resolution 5: To re-elect Mike Darcey as a Director |
572,944,253 |
99.89 |
636,489 |
0.11 |
2,243,614 |
Resolution 6: To re-elect Terry Duddy as a Director |
570,235,132 |
99.42 |
3,342,248 |
0.58 |
2,246,976 |
Resolution 7: To elect Ian Durant as a Director |
572,955,440 |
99.89 |
617,732 |
0.11 |
2,251,184 |
Resolution 8: To elect Cath Keers as a Director |
572,997,921 |
99.90 |
582,745 |
0.10 |
2,243,690 |
Resolution 9: To re-appoint the auditor |
566,042,965 |
99.77 |
1,312,990 |
0.23 |
8,468,401 |
Resolution 10: To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration |
552,341,974 |
98.51 |
8,341,734 |
1.49 |
15,140,648 |
Resolution 11: To authorise political donations and expenditure |
537,737,232 |
95.94 |
22,772,173 |
4.06 |
15,314,951 |
Resolution 12: To authorise the directors to allot unissued shares |
460,477,143 |
80.04 |
114,837,761 |
19.96 |
509,452 |
Resolution 13: To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights (Special Resolution) |
478,880,927 |
83.19 |
96,752,201 |
16.81 |
191,228 |
Resolution 14: To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares (Special Resolution) |
553,713,024 |
99.89 |
616,572 |
0.11 |
21,494,760 |
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Resolution 15: To authorise the Company to call general meetings other than AGMs on not less than 14 days notice (Special Resolution) |
519,370,039 |
92.63 |
41,338,399 |
7.37 |
15,115,918 |
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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
4 July 2012