Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9797U

Home Retail Group Plc

02 July 2009

 



Home Retail Group plc

(the 'Company')

Results of Annual General Meeting 2009

The Board of Home Retail Group plc is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting yesterday were duly passed. The results of the polls are as follows:

	Votes For	% Cast	Votes Against	% Cast	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1: To receive the 2009 Annual Report and Accounts	587,767,153	99.91	537,380	0.09	32,108
Resolution 2: To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	350,143,521	64.34	194,066,198	35.66	44,126,922
Resolution 3: To authorise the payment of the final dividend of 10.0p per share	579,244,343	99.55	2,631,287	0.45	6,461,011
Resolution 4: To re-elect Oliver Stocken as a director	580,645,798	98.78	7,149,976	1.22	540,867
Resolution 5: To re-elect Richard Ashton as a director	584,900,301	99.42	3,389,265	0.58	47,075
Resolution 6: To re-appoint the auditor	570,435,422	99.62	2,160,092	0.38	15,741,127
Resolution 7: To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration	578,087,280	99.88	695,444	0.12	9,553,917
Resolution 8: To authorise political donations and expenditure	579,443,284	99.27	4,282,657	0.73	4,610,700
Resolution 9: To authorise the directors to allot unissued shares	554,322,353	96.20	21,880,761	3.80	12,133,527
Resolution 10: To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights (Special Resolution)	582,204,657	99.83	975,672	0.17	5,156,312
Resolution 11:  To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares (Special Resolution)	579,079,728	98.44	9,152,774	1.56	104,139
Resolution 12: To authorise the Company to call general meetings other than AGMs on not less than 14 days notice (Special Resolution)	570,819,696	97.03	17,458,130	2.97	58,815
Resolution 13:  To authorise the change to the Company's Performance Share Plan	523,999,125	96.29	20,211,055	3.71	44,126,461

  The total number of shares in issue is 877,445,001 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 shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility at:  

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf 

London

E14 5HS  

The voting results are also available to view on the Home Retail Group plc website at www.homeretailgroup.com/home/investors/shservices/agm/

Gordon Bentley

Secretary

2 July 2009

 

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