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DUNELM GROUP plc
Results of AGM
16 November 2010
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 10 and 11, 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
| 190,513,039 99.9%
| 55,883 0.03% | 0 |
2 - Approve dividend
| 190,568,922 99.9%
| 0 | 0 |
3 - Re-elect S Emeny
| 188,534,238 98.9%
| 2,034,684 1% | 0 |
4 - Re-elect W L Adderley
| 190,402,957 99.9% | 165,965 0.1% | 0 |
5 - Approve Remuneration report
| 173,027,305 96.6% | 6,045,331 3.4% | 11,496,286
|
6 - Appoint auditors
| 189,367,636 99.4% | 1,199,747 0.6% | 1,539 |
7 - Authority to allot shares
| 190,550,771 99.9% | 9,301 0.001% | 8,850
|
8- Dis-apply pre-emption rights
| 190,546,772 99.9% | 15,300 0.01% | 6,850
|
9 - Approve own share purchases
| 190,545,548 99.9% | 19,229 0.01% | 4,147 |
10 - Rule 9 waiver - purchase own shares*
| 58,662,575 81.8% | 13,017,161 18.2% | 735,377 |
11 - Rule 9 waiver - grant and exercise of LTIP awards*
| 58,662,115 81.8% | 13,012,211 18.2% | 724,787 |
12- General Meeting notice period 14 days
|
189,355,873 99.4% |
1,208,748 0.6% |
4,300 |
13 - Amend LTIP rules |
175,159,570 93.6%
|
11,988,267 6.4% |
3,421,085 |
* Note that members of the Concert Party (as defined in the Notice of Annual General Meeting) were not eligible to vote on resolutions 10 and 11. The number of ordinary shares held by the Concert Party is 118,163,809, 58.8% of the issued share capital.
The Company has 201,341,679 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:
David Stead
0116 2644400