Results of AGM

RNS Number : 1245I

Dunelm Group plc

30 November 2022

 

Dunelm Group plc

(the 'Company')

Results of Annual General Meeting

30 November 2022

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 11.30am on 30 November 2022 at Dunelm's Store Support Centre, Pontylue Way, Watermead Business Park, Syston, Leicestershire, LE7 1AD, the resolutions set out in Part 3 of the Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 21 October 2022 were duly passed.

Voting on all resolutions was by way of a show of hands, apart from resolution 31, where the voting was by poll as required by the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers. 

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

Number	Resolution Name	Number of Votes Against	% of Votes Against	Number of Votes For & Discretionary	% of Votes For & Discretionary	Number of Votes Withheld*	% of Votes Withheld*
01	Accounts	1,332	0.00%	180,833,066	100.00%	356,909	0.18
02	Dividend	722	0.00%	181,190,139	100.00%	446	0.00
03	Will Adderley	1,387,656	0.77%	179,799,030	99.23%	4,621	0.00
04	Nick Wilkinson	8,119	0.00%	181,180,934	100.00%	2,005	0.00
05	Karen Witts	562,902	0.31%	180,626,927	99.69%	1,478	0.00
06	Andy Harrison	809,361	0.45%	180,374,556	99.55%	7,141	0.00
07	Andy Harrison (ind)**	810,054	0.85%	94,034,647	99.15%	6,079	0.00
08	Marion Sears	1,880,746	1.04%	179,309,234	98.96%	1,078	0.00
09	Marion Sears (ind)**	1,668,184	1.76%	93,181,232	98.24%	1,364	0.00
10	Ian Bull	787,800	0.43%	180,397,165	99.57%	6,093	0.00
11	Ian Bull (ind)**	787,780	0.83%	94,056,534	99.17%	6,466	0.00
12	Arja Taaveniku	690,673	0.38%	180,495,959	99.62%	4,426	0.00
13	Arja Taaveniku (ind)**	690,404	0.73%	94,155,502	99.27%	4,874	0.00
14	William Reeve	691,814	0.38%	180,496,586	99.62%	2,658	0.00
15	William Reeve (ind)**	689,785	0.73%	94,155,989	99.27%	5,006	0.00
16	Peter Ruis	689,829	0.38%	180,495,136	99.62%	6,093	0.00
17	Peter Ruis (ind)**	689,635	0.73%	94,154,539	99.27%	6,606	0.00
18	Vijay Talwar	692,597	0.38%	180,494,035	99.62%	4,426	0.00
19	Vijay Talwar (ind)**	692,395	0.73%	94,153,586	99.27%	4,799	0.00
20	Kelly Devine	8,243	0.00%	181,178,796	100.00%	4,019	0.00
21	Kelly Devine (ind)**	5,981	0.01%	94,836,912	99.99%	7,887	0.00
22	Alison Brittain	2,555,533	1.41%	178,633,642	98.59%	1,883	0.00
23	Alison Brittain (ind)**	2,553,275	2.69%	92,293,193	97.31%	4,311	0.00
24	Remuneration Report	408,268	0.23%	177,668,641	99.77%	3,114,149	1.55
25	Auditors	78,149	0.04%	181,111,712	99.96%	1,446	0.00
26	Auditors' Remuneration	9,003	0.00%	181,180,737	100.00%	1,567	0.00
27	Allot Securities	471,985	0.26%	180,718,732	99.74%	590	0.00
28	Allot Equity	15,291	0.01%	181,173,910	99.99%	2,106	0.00
29	Allot Further Equity	314,524	0.17%	180,874,677	99.83%	2,106	0.00
30	Purchase Shares	79,529	0.04%	180,896,766	99.96%	215,012	0.11
31	Rule 9 waiver**	1,696,170	1.79%	93,011,865	98.21%	415,431	0.21
32	14 Days	2,042,433	1.13%	179,148,872	98.87%	2	0.00
33	New Articles	74,869	0.04%	181,113,103	99.96%	3,335	0.00

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

At the date of the AGM, the Company has 203,426,835 ordinary shares in issue, with 2,065,621 ordinary shares in treasury. Total voting rights are therefore 201,361,214.

**Controlling Shareholders (as defined in the AGM Notice) were not eligible to vote on resolutions 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 23. Members of the Concert Party (as defined in the AGM Notice) were not eligible to vote on resolution 31. The Controlling Shareholders and the Concert Party Shareholders were the same parties at the date of the AGM; at that date they hold 86,340,279 Ordinary Shares, 42.88% of the issued ordinary share capital (excluding treasury shares) with voting rights.

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 shortly be available at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

The annual report and accounts and the AGM Notice and a copy of this announcement are available in the investor section of the Company's website at https://corporate.dunelm.com.

Name of authorised Company official responsible for making this notification:

Dawn Durrant, Company Secretary

[e-mail] .

 

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