AGM Statement

RNS Number : 9879H

Kingfisher PLC

13 June 2017

 

KINGFISHER PLC

RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, DIRECTORATE CHANGE

Tuesday 13 June 2017

Kingfisher plc (the 'Company') announces the results of voting on resolutions at its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held on Tuesday 13 June 2017, as set out in the AGM notice.

A poll was held on each of the resolutions which were all passed by the required majority. Resolutions 1 to 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions; resolutions 17 to 20 were passed as special resolutions. The results of the poll are presented in the table below.

The Company also confirms that, following the conclusion of the Company's 2017 AGM, Daniel Bernard retired from the Board and Andy Cosslett became Chairman of the Board of Directors. Andy Cosslett is now a member of both the Remuneration and Nomination Committees.

Resolution		Votes For*	%	Votes Against	%	Total Votes	% of ISC	Votes** Withheld
1	To receive the report and accounts	1,731,724,865	99.66	5,913,848	0.34	1,737,638,713	78.61	828,289
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report	1,710,904,475	98.82	20,440,793	1.18	1,731,345,268	78.32	7,122,213
3	To declare the final dividend	1,738,160,114	100.00	17,407	0.00	1,738,177,521	78.63	286,907
4	To appoint Andy Cosslett as a director	1,735,386,389	99.84	2,734,669	0.16	1,738,121,058	78.63	345,944
5	To re-appoint Andrew Bonfield as a director	1,735,920,581	99.87	2,208,831	0.13	1,738,129,412	78.63	337,590
6	To re-appoint Pascal Cagni as a director	1,737,927,454	99.99	195,597	0.01	1,738,123,051	78.63	343,951
7	To re-appoint Clare Chapman as a director	1,736,604,230	99.91	1,524,219	0.09	1,738,128,449	78.63	338,553
8	To re-appoint Anders Dahlvig as a director	1,729,117,159	99.48	9,006,450	0.52	1,738,123,609	78.63	343,393
9	To re-appoint Rakhi Goss-Custard as a director	1,596,078,784	91.83	142,038,885	8.17	1,738,117,669	78.63	349,332
10	To re-appoint Veronique Laury as a director	1,737,904,796	99.99	193,091	0.01	1,738,097,887	78.63	369,115
11	To re-appoint Mark Seligman as a director	1,737,928,100	99.99	195,490	0.01	1,738,123,590	78.63	343,412
12	To re-appoint Karen Witts as a director	1,728,904,364	99.47	9,220,959	0.53	1,738,125,323	78.63	341,679
13	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as auditors	1,727,553,416	99.84	2,695,811	0.16	1,730,249,227	78.27	8,210,450
14	To authorise the Audit Committee to agree the auditors' remuneration	1,737,855,649	99.98	292,852	0.02	1,738,148,501	78.63	318,501
15	To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations	1,677,681,425	97.01	51,769,031	2.99	1,729,450,456	78.24	9,001,706
16	To authorise the directors to allot shares	1,625,851,017	93.79	107,737,484	6.21	1,733,588,501	78.42	4,867,546
17	To disapply pre-emption rights	1,706,742,835	99.89	1,909,616	0.11	1,708,652,451	77.30	29,814,551
18	To authorise the company to purchase its own shares	1,722,995,547	99.23	13,367,818	0.77	1,736,363,365	78.55	2,103,636
19	To authorise the Company to call a general meeting other than an annual general meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice	1,606,580,411	92.89	123,002,182	7.11	1,729,582,593	78.24	8,884,407
20	To adopt new Articles of Association	1,736,566,519	99.92	1,474,271	0.08	1,738,040,790	78.63	426,035

NOTES

*    Includes discretionary votes

**   A vote withheld is not a vote in law and, therefore cannot be counted in the calculation of the proportion of   

     votes for and against a resolution.

As at 6.00pm on Friday 9 June 2017, the time by which shareholders who wanted to attend, speak and vote at the AGM must have been entered on the Company's register of members, the number of issued shares of the Company was 2,210,531,432 shares of 15 5/7 pence each.

The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available on the Kingfisher website at www.kingfisher.com/agm. A copy of the poll results for the Annual General Meeting will shortly be available on the Kingfisher website, also at www.kingfisher.com/agm.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed, other than those considered ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

CONTACT

For further information, please contact:

Paul Moore, Group Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

Kingfisher plc

3 Sheldon Square, London W2 6PX

 

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