Result of General Meeting

RNS Number : 1829Q

Home Retail Group Plc

25 February 2016

 

Home Retail Group plc

(the "Company")

Results of General Meeting 25 February 2016

The Board of Home Retail Group plc is pleased to announce that the resolution put to its General Meeting today was duly passed.  The results of the poll was as follows:

DISPOSAL RESOLUTION:

THAT the Transaction, on the terms set out in the Transaction Agreements (both as defined in the circular to shareholders dated 2 February 2016 (the ''Circular'')), be and is hereby approved, including for the purpose of compliance with Rule 21.1 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers, and the Directors (or a committee of the Directors) be and are hereby authorised to waive, amend, vary or extend any of the terms of the Transaction Agreements and to do all things as they may consider to be necessary or desirable to implement and give effect to, or otherwise in connection with, the Transaction and any matters incidental to the Transaction (the ''Disposal Resolution'').

Votes In Favour	% Cast	Votes Against	% Cast		* Votes Withheld
591,256,529	99.33%	3,967,306	0.67%	2,873,795

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

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

A copy of the resolution 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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