24 Nov 2015 10:56
Dunelm Group plc
(the 'Company')
Company number 4708277
Results of Annual General Meeting
24 November 2015
At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 9.30am on 24 November 2015 at Fuller's The Parcel Yard, King's Cross Station, London N1C 4AH the resolutions set out in Part 5 of the Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 16 October 2015 were duly passed.
Voting on all resolutions was by way of a show of hands, apart from resolution 25, where the voting was by poll as required by the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers. 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 | Votes against | Votes withheld
|
1 - Approve Accounts
| 99.8% | 0.2% | 0.1% |
2 - Approve dividend
| 100% | 0% | 0% |
3 - Re-elect Will Adderley
| 99.1% | 0.9% | 0% |
4 - Re-elect David Stead
| 99.9% | 0.1% | 0% |
5 - Elect John Browett
| 99.9% | 0.1% | 0% |
6 - Re-elect Andy Harrison
| 99.9% | 0.1% | 0.6% |
7 - Re-elect Andy Harrison (independent vote)
| 99.6% | 0.4% | 0.6% |
8 - Re-elect Marion Sears
| 99.1% | 0.9% | 0.2% |
9 - Re-elect Marion Sears (independent vote)
| 97.7% | 2.3% | 0.2% |
10 - Re-elect Simon Emeny
| 99.8% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
11 - Re-elect Simon Emeny (independent vote)
| 99.6% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
112- Re-elect Liz Doherty
| 99.8% | 0.2% | 0% |
13 - Re-elect Liz Doherty (independent vote)
| 99.6% | 0.4% | 0% |
14 - Elect William Reeve
| 99.8% | 0.2% | 0% |
15 - Elect William Reeve (independent vote)
| 99.5% | 0.5% | 0% |
16 - Elect Peter Ruis | 99.8% | 0.2% | 0% |
17 - Elect Peter Ruis (independent vote) | 99.5% | 0.5% | 0% |
18 - Approve Remuneration Policy | 97.7% | 2.3% | 0% |
19 - Approve Annual Report on Remuneration
| 99.1% | 0.9% | 1.0% |
20 - Appoint auditor
| 99.9% | 0.1% | 0% |
21 - Auditor's remuneration
| 99.9% | 0.1% | 0% |
22 - Authority to allot shares
| 100% | 0.% | 0% |
23 - Dis-apply pre-emption rights
| 97.4% | 2.6% | 0% |
24- Approve own share purchases
| 99.8% | 0.2% | 0% |
25 - Rule 9 waiver
| 70.2% | 29.8% | 0.1% |
26 - Approve amendments to Long Term Incentive Plan
| 97.4% | 2.6% | 0.2% |
27 - Approve Share Award Agreement
| 96.2% | 3.8% | 0.5% |
28 - Approve Articles of Association
| 99.2% | 0.8% | 0.5% |
29 - General Meeting notice period 14 days
| 99.0% | 1.0% | 0% |
* Note that members of the Concert Party (as defined in the AGM Notice) were not eligible to vote on resolution 17. The number of ordinary shares held by the Concert Party is 111,371,779, 55.1% of the issued ordinary share capital in issue with voting rights.
The Company has 202,479,676 ordinary shares in issue with voting rights, and 354,255 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
Dunelm (DNLM)