Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3181R

Dunelm Group plc

16 November 2012

 



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Dunelm Group plc

(the 'Company')

Results of Annual General Meeting

16 November 2012

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 9.30am on 16 November 2012 at The Holiday Inn Express, Rockingham Road, Kettering, NN14 1UD, the resolutions set out in Part 12 of the circular published by the Company on 15 October 2012 (the 'Circular') were duly passed.

Voting on all resolutions was by way of a show of hands, apart from resolution 16, where the voting was by poll as required by the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers.  The results of the Annual General Meeting will shortly be available on the Company's website at www.dunelm-mill.com.

 Prior to the meeting proxy votes had been received as follows:

Resolution	Votes for	% of votes cast	Votes against	% of votes cast	Votes withheld
1 - Approve Accounts	190,278,412	99.99%	0	0.00%	611
2 - Approve dividend	190,279,912	99.99%	0	0.00%	611
3 - Elect M Davies	190,141,496	99.92%	135,206	0.07%	611
4 - Re-elect G Cooper	190,197,275	99.95%	79,427	0.04%	611
5 - Re-elect W L Adderley	187,495,537	98.56%	2,716,132	1.43%	65,644
6 - Re-elect N Wharton	190,155,611	99.93%	121,091	0.06%	611
7 - Re-elect D Stead	190,155,611	99.93%	121,091	0.06%	611
8 - Re-elect M Sears	190,038,983	99.92%	135,206	0.07%	103,124
9 - Re-elect S Emeny	190,031,463	99.90%	180,206	0.09%	65,644
10 - Approve Remuneration report	189,816,656	99.98%	23,511	0.01%	437,546
11 - Appoint auditors	189,899,043	99.79%	377,659	0.20%	611
12 - Auditors' remuneration	189,862,101	99.77%	417,311	0.22%	1,111
13 - Authority to allot shares	190,107,519	99.90%	166,815	0.09%	611
14 - Dis-apply pre-emption rights	190,110,465	99.90%	163,869	0.09%	611
15 - Approve own share  purchases	190,140,961	99.96%	72,050	0.04%	65,644
16 - Rule 9 waiver - purchase own shares*	52,251,569	69.08%	23,372,106	30.90%	3,538,373
17 - General Meeting notice period 14 days	189,117,854	99.38%	1,157,948	0.61%	1,011

* Note that members of the Concert Party (as defined in the Circular) were not eligible to vote on resolution 16. The number of ordinary shares held by the Concert Party is 111,237,347, 54.9% of the issued ordinary share capital.

The Company has 202,592,640 ordinary shares in issue with voting rights.

Votes withheld do not count in the number of votes counted for or against a resolution.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, the full text of the resolutions passed has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

The annual report and accounts and the Circular (containing the notice of Annual General Meeting) are available in the investor section of the Company's website at www.dunelm-mill.com.

Name of authorised Company official responsible for making this notification:

Dawn Durrant, Company Secretary

0116 2644356

 

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