Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6891C

Home Retail Group Plc

29 June 2016

 

Home Retail Group plc

(the "Company")

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 29 JUNE 2016

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 polls were as follows:

Resolution		Votes In Favour	% Cast	Votes Against	% Cast			* Votes Withheld
1	To receive the directors' report, auditors' report and financial statements	475,210,617	99.99%	53,429		0.01%	388,805
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report	461,054,916	99.53%	2,167,993		0.47%	12,429,942
3	To re-elect Richard Ashton	472,195,758	99.36%	3,035,067		0.64%	422,026
4	To re-elect John Coombe	457,996,139	99.38%	2,874,318		0.62%	14,782,394
5	To re-elect Mike Darcey	473,236,073	99.58%	2,002,587		0.42%	414,191
6	To re-elect Ian Durant	464,144,886	99.09%	4,243,312		0.91%	7,264,653
7	To re-elect Cath Keers	472,734,966	99.47%	2,510,507		0.53%	407,378
8	To re-elect Jacqueline de Rojas	473,233,630	99.58%	2,011,362		0.42%	407,859
9	To re-elect John Walden	451,310,938	94.97%	23,923,636		5.03%	418,277
10	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors	461,656,764	97.13%	13,643,156		2.87%	352,931
11	To authorise the directors to fix the auditors' remuneration	470,198,621	98.93%	5,096,972		1.07%	357,258
12	To authorise political donations /incur EU political expenditure	459,093,457	96.60%	16,146,591		3.40%	412,803
13	To authorise the directors to allot unissued shares	437,577,331	92.06%	37,724,623		7.94%	350,897
14	To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights	407,840,485	88.37%	53,692,894		11.63%	14,118,182
15	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	467,246,096	98.25%	8,321,983		1.75%	84,671
16	To authorise meetings being called on not less than 14 working days' notice	439,357,538	92.43%	35,983,585		7.57%	311,728

* Votes withheld are not a vote in law, and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution. 

The total number of shares in issue is 813,445,001 ordinary shares of 10 pence each.

Copies of all resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

The voting results will also shortly be available to view on the Home Retail Group plc website at http://www.homeretailgroup.com/investor-centre/agm/

Gordon Bentley

Company Secretary

 

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