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Dunelm Group plc
(the 'Company')
Results of Annual General Meeting
16 November 2012
At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 9.30am on 16 November 2012 at The Holiday Inn Express, Rockingham Road, Kettering, NN14 1UD, the resolutions set out in Part 12 of the circular published by the Company on 15 October 2012 (the 'Circular') were duly passed.
Voting on all resolutions was by way of a show of hands, apart from resolution 16, where the voting was by poll as required by the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers. The results of the Annual General Meeting will shortly be available on the Company's website at www.dunelm-mill.com.
Prior to the meeting proxy votes had been received as follows:
Resolution | Votes for | % of votes cast | Votes against | % of votes cast | Votes withheld |
1 - Approve Accounts
| 190,278,412 | 99.99% | 0 | 0.00% | 611 |
2 - Approve dividend
| 190,279,912 | 99.99% | 0 | 0.00% | 611 |
3 - Elect M Davies
| 190,141,496 | 99.92% | 135,206 | 0.07% | 611 |
4 - Re-elect G Cooper
| 190,197,275 | 99.95% | 79,427 | 0.04% | 611 |
5 - Re-elect W L Adderley
| 187,495,537 | 98.56% | 2,716,132 | 1.43% | 65,644 |
6 - Re-elect N Wharton
| 190,155,611 | 99.93% | 121,091 | 0.06% | 611 |
7 - Re-elect D Stead
| 190,155,611 | 99.93% | 121,091 | 0.06% | 611 |
8 - Re-elect M Sears
| 190,038,983 | 99.92% | 135,206 | 0.07% | 103,124 |
9 - Re-elect S Emeny
| 190,031,463 | 99.90% | 180,206 | 0.09% | 65,644 |
10 - Approve Remuneration report
| 189,816,656 | 99.98% | 23,511 | 0.01% | 437,546 |
11 - Appoint auditors
| 189,899,043 | 99.79% | 377,659 | 0.20% | 611 |
12 - Auditors' remuneration
| 189,862,101 | 99.77% | 417,311 | 0.22% | 1,111 |
13 - Authority to allot shares
| 190,107,519 | 99.90% | 166,815 | 0.09% | 611 |
14 - Dis-apply pre-emption rights
| 190,110,465 | 99.90% | 163,869 | 0.09% | 611 |
15 - Approve own share purchases
| 190,140,961 | 99.96% | 72,050 | 0.04% | 65,644 |
16 - Rule 9 waiver - purchase own shares*
| 52,251,569 | 69.08% | 23,372,106 | 30.90% | 3,538,373 |
17 - General Meeting notice period 14 days
| 189,117,854 | 99.38% | 1,157,948 | 0.61% | 1,011 |
* Note that members of the Concert Party (as defined in the Circular) were not eligible to vote on resolution 16. The number of ordinary shares held by the Concert Party is 111,237,347, 54.9% of the issued ordinary share capital.
The Company has 202,592,640 ordinary shares in issue with voting rights.
Votes withheld do not count in the number of votes counted for or against a resolution.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, the full text of the resolutions passed has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
The annual report and accounts and the Circular (containing the notice of Annual General Meeting) are available in the investor section of the Company's website at www.dunelm-mill.com.
Name of authorised Company official responsible for making this notification:
Dawn Durrant, Company Secretary
0116 2644356