Last checked at 11 Nov 2014 11:20
Dunelm Group plc
(the 'Company')
Results of Annual General Meeting
11 November 2014
At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 9.30am on 11 November 2014 at the offices of MHP Communications, 60 Great Portland Street, London W1W 7RT, the resolutions set out in Part 5 of the Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 3 October 2014 were duly passed.
Voting on all resolutions was by way of a show of hands, apart from resolution 24, where the voting was by poll as required by the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers.
Voting on resolutions 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 was by Independent Shareholders (as defined in the AGM Notice) only.
A copy of this announcement will shortly be available on the Company's website at www.dunelm.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 | % withheld |
1 - Approve Accounts
| 185,434,963 | 99.7 | 436,306 | 0.3 | 28,480 | 0.02 |
2 - Approve dividend
| 185,956,060 | 100 | 143 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 - Re-elect Will Adderley
| 184,920,496 | 99.4 | 1,035,220 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 |
4 - Re-elect David Stead
| 185,108,194 | 99.9 | 95,872 | 0.1 | 751,650 | 0.4 |
5 - Re-elect Geoff Cooper
| 181,345,624 | 97.9 | 3,780,752 | 2.1 | 776,650 | 0.4 |
6 - Re-elect Geoff Cooper*
| 70,044,221 | 94.7 | 3,781,469 | 5.3 | 777,750 | 0.4 |
7 - Re-elect Marion Sears
| 182,195,637 | 98.5 | 2,676,580 | 1.5 | 1,030,809 | 0.6 |
8 -Re-elect Marion Sears*
| 70,897,414 | 96.2 | 2,674,117 | 3.8 | 1,031,909 | 0.6 |
9 - Re-elect Simon Emeny
| 185,805,661 | 99.9 | 96,490 | 0.1 | 875 | 0 |
10- Re-elect Simon Emeny*
| 74,503,722 | 99.7 | 97,207 | 0.1 | 1900 | 0 |
11 - Re-elect Matt Davies
| 185,545,427 | 99.8 | 357,299 | 0.2 | 800 | 0 |
12 - Re-elect Matt Davies*
| 74,243,413 | 99.4 | 358,016 | 0.6 | 1900 | 0 |
13 - Re-elect Liz Doherty
| 185,544,927 | 99.8 | 357,299 | 0.2 | 800 | 0 |
14 - Re-elect Liz Doherty*
| 74,243,630 | 99.4 | 357,299 | 0.6 | 1900 | 0 |
15 - Elect Andy Harrison
| 185,899,673 | 99.9 | 1,935 | 0.1 | 1,418 | 0 |
16 - Elect Andy Harrison*
| 74,598,451 | 99.9 | 935 | 0.1 | 3,443 | 0 |
17 - Approve Remuneration Policy
| 183,420,359 | 98.6 | 2,463,626 | 1.4 | 19,758 | 0.01 |
18 - Approve Annual Remuneration Report
| 178,587,993 | 99.2 | 1,417,179 | 0.8 | 5,898,571 | 3.2 |
19 - Appoint auditors
| 185,651,617 | 99.8 | 250,618 | 0.2 | 573 | 0 |
20 - Auditors' remuneration
| 185,900,665 | 99.9 | 2,143 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
21 - Authority to allot shares
| 185,891,922 | 99.9 | 9,473 | 0.1 | 1,900 | 0 |
22 - Dis-apply pre-emption rights
| 185,876,586 | 99.9 | 10,793 | 0.1 | 14,650 | 0 |
23- Approve own share purchases
| 185,608,991 | 99.8 | 281,367 | 0.2 | 12,750 | 0.01 |
24 - Rule 9 waiver - purchase own shares**
| 58,743,127 | 79.0 | 15,489,799 | 20.1 | 368,662 | 0.2 |
25 - Approve Long Term Incentive Plan
| 183,338,514 | 98.6 | 2,557,628 | 1.4 | 6,666 | 0 |
26 - Approve Sharesave Plan
| 185,690,202 | 99.9 | 260,189 | 0.1 | 5,325 | 0 |
27 - Approve Articles of Association
| 183,765,860 | 98.8 | 2,130,648 | 1.2 | 6,300 | 0 |
28 - General Meeting notice period 14 days
| 184,299,679 | 99.1 | 1,602,729 | 0.9 | 400 | 0 |
* Non-Independent Shareholders (as defined in the AGM Notice) were not eligible to vote on resolutions 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16.
** Controlling Shareholders (as defined in the AGM Notice) were not eligible to vote on resolution 24.
The Non-Independent Shareholders and the Controlling Shareholders were the same parties at the date of the AGM; they hold 111,300,303 Ordinary Shares, 55.1% of the issued ordinary share capital (excluding treasury shares) with voting rights.
The Company has 201,975,254 ordinary shares in issue with voting rights, and 858,677 ordinary shares in treasury.
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 AGM Notice are available in the investor section of the Company's website at www.dunelm.com.
Name of authorised Company official responsible for making this notification:
Dawn Durrant, Company Secretary
0116 2644439