Result of AGM
Kingfisher PLC
31 May 2007
Kingfisher plc
Kingfisher announces that at today's Annual General Meeting (AGM) all
resolutions put to shareholders were passed on a show of hands.
Proxies were received from shareholders of up to 1,479,141,383 shares amounting
to 62.68% of the issued share capital. Not all shareholders voted on each
resolution. In addition, shareholders holding 37.32% of the issued share capital
refrained from voting by not returning their proxy forms. 93 shareholders
representing 885,525 shares (0.038% of issued share capital) attended the
meeting. Of this number, the Directors and the Company Secretary hold 692,725
shares. Votes for (including the Chairman's discretionary votes), against and
votes withheld for each resolution, from those returning the proxies, were as
follows:-
Resolution Total Votes Total Votes Votes Withheld
For Against (1)
(%) (%)
1. To receive the Annual 1,475,971,878 1,532,033 1,636,898
Report 2007 (99.90) (0.10)
2. To approve the 1,440,534,727 34,569,062 4,037,593
directors' Remuneration (97.66) (2.34)
Report
3. To declare the Final 1,478,999,782 27,962 113,639
Dividend (99.99) (0.01)
4. To elect Mr Daniel 1,466,825,758 10,579,460 1,736,165
Bernard (99.28) (0.72)
5. To elect Mrs Janis Kong 1,467,760,411 11,131,952 249,020
(99.25) (0.75)
6. To re-elect Mr Phil 1,468,335,357 10,602,436 203,590
Bentley (99.28) (0.72)
7. To re-elect Mr John 1,467,798,537 11,127,795 214,683
Nelson (99.25) (0.75)
8. To re-elect Mr Michael 1,460,569,015 14,130,108 4,442,260
Hepher (99.04) (0.96)
9. To re-appoint the 1,431,351,764 24,596,109 23,193,158
auditors and to (98.31) (1.69)
authorise the directors
to agree their
remuneration
10. To authorise the 1,417,199,641 60,708,271 1,233,401
directors to allot (95.89) (4.11)
shares
11. To authorise the 1,336,282,196 141,364,180 1,494,047
directors to make (90.43) (9.57)
donations to EU
political organisations
and to incur EU
political expenditure
12. To authorise the 1,324,857,637 154,088,941 194,805
disapplication of (89.58) (10.42)
pre-emption rights
13. To authorise the Company 1,478,770,594 202,985 167,804
to purchase its own (99.99) (0.01)
ordinary shares
(1) A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation
of the proportion of the votes for and against the resolution.
The total issued share capital voted on was 2,359,939,719
A document listing the Resolutions passed at the AGM of Kingfisher plc has been
submitted to the UK Listing Authority, and will shortly be available for
inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is
situated at:
Financial Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14
5HS
Tel. No (020) 7066 8333
For further information in connection with this announcement please contact the
Company Secretarial Department at Kingfisher plc on 020 7372 8333.
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