Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9397G

Home Retail Group Plc

04 July 2012

 



Home Retail Group plc

(the "Company")

Results of Annual General Meeting 2012

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 Directors' Report, Auditors' Report and Financial Statements of the Company for the 53 weeks ended 3 March 2012	560,619,807	99.99	60,845	0.01	15,143,704
Resolution 2:  To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the 53 weeks ended 3 March 2012	518,102,287	93.57	35,588,965	6.43	22,133,104
Resolution 3: To re-elect Richard Ashton as a Director	572,928,080	99.89	653,092	0.11	2,243,184
Resolution 4: To re-elect John Coombe as a Director	573,004,643	99.90	581,165	0.10	2,238,548
Resolution 5: To re-elect Mike Darcey as a Director	572,944,253	99.89	636,489	0.11	2,243,614
Resolution 6: To re-elect Terry Duddy as a Director	570,235,132	99.42	3,342,248	0.58	2,246,976
Resolution 7: To elect Ian Durant  as a Director	572,955,440	99.89	617,732	0.11	2,251,184
Resolution 8: To elect Cath Keers as a Director	572,997,921	99.90	582,745	0.10	2,243,690
Resolution 9: To re-appoint the auditor	566,042,965	99.77	1,312,990	0.23	8,468,401
Resolution 10: To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration	552,341,974	98.51	8,341,734	1.49	15,140,648
Resolution 11: To authorise political donations and expenditure	537,737,232	95.94	22,772,173	4.06	15,314,951
Resolution 12: To authorise the directors to allot unissued shares	460,477,143	80.04	114,837,761	19.96	509,452
Resolution 13: To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights                                                                   (Special Resolution)	478,880,927	83.19	96,752,201	16.81	191,228
Resolution 14:  To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares                                                 (Special Resolution)	553,713,024	99.89	616,572	0.11	21,494,760
Resolution 15: To authorise the Company to  call general meetings other than AGMs on not less than 14 days notice (Special Resolution)	519,370,039	92.63	41,338,399	7.37	15,115,918

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: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do. 

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

Gordon Bentley

Secretary

4 July 2012

 

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