Result of AGM

RNS Number : 2842L

Home Retail Group Plc

02 July 2014

 



Home Retail Group plc

(the "Company")

Results of Annual General Meeting 2014

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 report of the directors, the report of the auditors and the financial statements for the 52 weeks ended 1 March 2014	562,270,359	100.00	19,132	0.00	1,348,009
Resolution 2: To approve the directors' remuneration policy in the form set out in the directors remuneration report in the Company's annual report and financial statements for the 52 weeks ended 1 March 2014	533,499,996	94.90	28,669,901	5.10	1,467,603
Resolution 3: To approve the directors' remuneration report contained in the Company's annual report and financial statements for the 52 weeks ended 1 March 2014	551,856,290	98.83	6,511,986	1.17	5,269,224
Resolution 4: To declare a final dividend of 2.3p per ordinary share for the 52 weeks ended 1 March 2014	562,345,559	100.00	7,774	0.00	1,284,167
Resolution 5: To re-elect Richard Ashton as a director of the Company	560,593,571	99.71	1,647,479	0.29	1,396,450
Resolution 6: To re-elect John Coombe as a director of the Company	553,644,161	98.47	8,604,437	1.53	1,388,902
Resolution 7: To re-elect Mike Darcey as a director of the Company	561,226,183	99.82	1,015,658	0.18	1,395,659
Resolution 8: To re-elect Ian Durant as a director of the Company	557,877,365	99.22	4,375,708	0.78	1,384,427
Resolution 9: To re-elect Cath Keers as a director of the Company	560,793,447	99.74	1,450,104	0.26	1,393,949
Resolution 10: To re-elect Jacqueline de Rojas as a director of the Company	554,447,171	99.73	1,491,920	0.27	7,698,409
Resolution 11: To elect John Walden as a director of the Company	544,878,728	96.92	17,323,203	3.08	1,435,569
Resolution 12: To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company	555,192,893	99.86	802,222	0.14	7,642,385
Resolution 13: To authorise the Board to fix the remuneration of the auditors	562,098,698	99.96	202,569	0.04	1,336,233
Resolution 14: To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations to EU political organisations/incur EU political expenditure	524,531,595	95.58	24,269,669	4.42	14,836,236

Resolution 15: To authorise the Board to allot unissued shares	493,337,735	96.56	17,563,600	3.44	52,736,165
Resolution 16: To authorise the Board to disapply pre-emption rights (Special Resolution)	532,044,334	96.95	16,749,362	3.05	14,843,804
Resolution 17: To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares (Special Resolution)	548,616,021	99.95	247,399	0.05	14,774,080
Resolution 18: To authorise the Company to approve by special resolution that a general meeting (other than AGMs) may be called on not tell than 14 clear days' notice (Special Resolution)	508,536,781	92.64	40,395,978	7.36	14,704,741
Resolution 19: To authorise the Home Retail Group Employee Share Trust to hold shares in the Company	548,788,706	99.99	77,359	0.01	14,771,435

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 http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

The voting results will also shortly be available to view on the Home Retail Group plc website at http://www.homeretailgroup.com/investor-centre/agm/

Gordon Bentley

Secretary

2 July 2014

 

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