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Dunelm Group plc
(the 'Company')
Results of Annual General Meeting
30 November 2022
At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 11.30am on 30 November 2022 at Dunelm's Store Support Centre, Pontylue Way, Watermead Business Park, Syston, Leicestershire, LE7 1AD, the resolutions set out in Part 3 of the Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 21 October 2022 were duly passed.
Voting on all resolutions was by way of a show of hands, apart from resolution 31, 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:
Number | Resolution Name | Number of Votes Against | % of Votes Against | Number of Votes For & Discretionary | % of Votes For & Discretionary | Number of Votes Withheld* | % of Votes Withheld* |
01 | Accounts | 1,332 | 0.00% | 180,833,066 | 100.00% | 356,909 | 0.18 |
02 | Dividend | 722 | 0.00% | 181,190,139 | 100.00% | 446 | 0.00 |
03 | Will Adderley | 1,387,656 | 0.77% | 179,799,030 | 99.23% | 4,621 | 0.00 |
04 | Nick Wilkinson | 8,119 | 0.00% | 181,180,934 | 100.00% | 2,005 | 0.00 |
05 | Karen Witts | 562,902 | 0.31% | 180,626,927 | 99.69% | 1,478 | 0.00 |
06 | Andy Harrison | 809,361 | 0.45% | 180,374,556 | 99.55% | 7,141 | 0.00 |
07 | Andy Harrison (ind)** | 810,054 | 0.85% | 94,034,647 | 99.15% | 6,079 | 0.00 |
08 | Marion Sears | 1,880,746 | 1.04% | 179,309,234 | 98.96% | 1,078 | 0.00 |
09 | Marion Sears (ind)** | 1,668,184 | 1.76% | 93,181,232 | 98.24% | 1,364 | 0.00 |
10 | Ian Bull | 787,800 | 0.43% | 180,397,165 | 99.57% | 6,093 | 0.00 |
11 | Ian Bull (ind)** | 787,780 | 0.83% | 94,056,534 | 99.17% | 6,466 | 0.00 |
12 | Arja Taaveniku | 690,673 | 0.38% | 180,495,959 | 99.62% | 4,426 | 0.00 |
13 | Arja Taaveniku (ind)** | 690,404 | 0.73% | 94,155,502 | 99.27% | 4,874 | 0.00 |
14 | William Reeve | 691,814 | 0.38% | 180,496,586 | 99.62% | 2,658 | 0.00 |
15 | William Reeve (ind)** | 689,785 | 0.73% | 94,155,989 | 99.27% | 5,006 | 0.00 |
16 | Peter Ruis | 689,829 | 0.38% | 180,495,136 | 99.62% | 6,093 | 0.00 |
17 | Peter Ruis (ind)** | 689,635 | 0.73% | 94,154,539 | 99.27% | 6,606 | 0.00 |
18 | Vijay Talwar | 692,597 | 0.38% | 180,494,035 | 99.62% | 4,426 | 0.00 |
19 | Vijay Talwar (ind)** | 692,395 | 0.73% | 94,153,586 | 99.27% | 4,799 | 0.00 |
20 | Kelly Devine | 8,243 | 0.00% | 181,178,796 | 100.00% | 4,019 | 0.00 |
21 | Kelly Devine (ind)** | 5,981 | 0.01% | 94,836,912 | 99.99% | 7,887 | 0.00 |
22 | Alison Brittain | 2,555,533 | 1.41% | 178,633,642 | 98.59% | 1,883 | 0.00 |
23 | Alison Brittain (ind)** | 2,553,275 | 2.69% | 92,293,193 | 97.31% | 4,311 | 0.00 |
24 | Remuneration Report | 408,268 | 0.23% | 177,668,641 | 99.77% | 3,114,149 | 1.55 |
25 | Auditors | 78,149 | 0.04% | 181,111,712 | 99.96% | 1,446 | 0.00 |
26 | Auditors' Remuneration | 9,003 | 0.00% | 181,180,737 | 100.00% | 1,567 | 0.00 |
27 | Allot Securities | 471,985 | 0.26% | 180,718,732 | 99.74% | 590 | 0.00 |
28 | Allot Equity | 15,291 | 0.01% | 181,173,910 | 99.99% | 2,106 | 0.00 |
29 | Allot Further Equity | 314,524 | 0.17% | 180,874,677 | 99.83% | 2,106 | 0.00 |
30 | Purchase Shares | 79,529 | 0.04% | 180,896,766 | 99.96% | 215,012 | 0.11 |
31 | Rule 9 waiver** | 1,696,170 | 1.79% | 93,011,865 | 98.21% | 415,431 | 0.21 |
32 | 14 Days | 2,042,433 | 1.13% | 179,148,872 | 98.87% | 2 | 0.00 |
33 | New Articles | 74,869 | 0.04% | 181,113,103 | 99.96% | 3,335 | 0.00 |
* Votes withheld do not count in the number of votes counted for or against a resolution.
At the date of the AGM, the Company has 203,426,835 ordinary shares in issue, with 2,065,621 ordinary shares in treasury. Total voting rights are therefore 201,361,214.
**Controlling Shareholders (as defined in the AGM Notice) were not eligible to vote on resolutions 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 23. Members of the Concert Party (as defined in the AGM Notice) were not eligible to vote on resolution 31. The Controlling Shareholders and the Concert Party Shareholders were the same parties at the date of the AGM; at that date they hold 86,340,279 Ordinary Shares, 42.88% of the issued ordinary share capital (excluding treasury shares) with voting rights.
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 shortly be available at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
The annual report and accounts and the AGM Notice and a copy of this announcement are available in the investor section of the Company's website at https://corporate.dunelm.com.
Name of authorised Company official responsible for making this notification:
Dawn Durrant, Company Secretary
investorrelations@dunelm.com.