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17 Nov 2011 14:01
DUNELM GROUP plc
Results of AGM
17 November 2011
Dunelm Group plc is pleased to announce that all resolutions were passed at its Annual General Meeting held today at 10.30 am.
All resolutions were passed on a show of hands, apart from resolutions 15 and 16, where the voting was by poll as required by the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers.
Prior to the meeting proxy votes had been received as follows:
Resolution | For / discretionary
| Against
| Withheld
|
1 - Approve Accounts
| 188,375,349 99.9%
| 0
| 28,116 |
2 - Approve dividend
| 188,403,465 99.9%
| 0 | 0 |
3 - Re-elect G Cooper
| 188,260,765 99.9%
| 114,584 0.1% | 28,116 |
4 - Re-elect W L Adderley
| 187,627,216 99.7% | 533,083 0.3% | 243,166 |
5 - Re-elect N Wharton
| 188,334,826 99.9% | 68,044 0.1% | 595 |
6 - Re-elect D Stead
| 188,335,786 99.9% | 67,554 0.1% | 135 |
7 - Re-elect M Sears
| 188,264,331 99.9% | 138,999 0.1% | 135 |
8 - Re-elect S Emeny
| 188,289,078 99.9% | 114,252 0.1% | 135 |
9 - Approve Remuneration report
| 186,132,150 98.8%
| 2,259,599 1.2% | 2,116
|
10 - Appoint auditors
| 188,213,149 99.9% | 164,169 0.1% | 17,147 |
11 - Auditors' remuneration
| 188,198,879 99.9% | 194,586 0.1% | 0 |
12 - Authority to allot shares
| 188,324,571 99.9% | 76,012 0.1% | 2,882
|
13- Dis-apply pre-emption rights
| 188,356,613 99.9% | 39,917 0.1% | 6,635
|
14 - Approve own share purchases
| 188,241,825 99.9% | 80,297 0.1% | 81,343 |
15 - Rule 9 waiver - purchase own shares*
| 55,398,428 79.7% | 14,101,991 20.3% | 240,225 |
16- Rule 9 waiver - grant and exercise of LTIP awards*
| 53,746,686 77.3% | 15,753,733 22.7% | 240,225 |
17 - Amend LTIP rules
| 188,178,161 99.9% | 220,069 0.1% | 5,235 |
18 - Adopt new Articles of Association
| 188,342,846 99.9%
| 60,484 0.1% | 135 |
19- General Meeting notice period 14 days
|
187,344,983 99.4% |
1,053,182 0.6% |
5,300 |
* Note that members of the Concert Party (as defined in the Notice of Annual General Meeting) were not eligible to vote on resolutions 15 and 16. The number of ordinary shares held by the Concert Party is 118,693,318, 58.8% of the issued share capital.
The Company has 201,974,827 ordinary shares in issue with voting rights.
Votes withheld do not count in the number of votes counted for or against a resolution.
The full text of the resolutions passed as special business has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
The annual report and accounts and notice of agm are available in the investor section of the Company's website at www.dunelm-mill.com
For further information:
Dawn Durrant
0116 2644400
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