31st May 2007 14:34
Kingfisher PLC31 May 2007 Kingfisher plc Kingfisher announces that at today's Annual General Meeting (AGM) allresolutions put to shareholders were passed on a show of hands. Proxies were received from shareholders of up to 1,479,141,383 shares amountingto 62.68% of the issued share capital. Not all shareholders voted on eachresolution. In addition, shareholders holding 37.32% of the issued share capitalrefrained from voting by not returning their proxy forms. 93 shareholdersrepresenting 885,525 shares (0.038% of issued share capital) attended themeeting. Of this number, the Directors and the Company Secretary hold 692,725shares. Votes for (including the Chairman's discretionary votes), against andvotes withheld for each resolution, from those returning the proxies, were asfollows:- Resolution Total Votes Total Votes Votes Withheld For Against (1) (%) (%) 1. To receive the Annual 1,475,971,878 1,532,033 1,636,898 Report 2007 (99.90) (0.10) 2. To approve the 1,440,534,727 34,569,062 4,037,593 directors' Remuneration (97.66) (2.34) Report 3. To declare the Final 1,478,999,782 27,962 113,639 Dividend (99.99) (0.01) 4. To elect Mr Daniel 1,466,825,758 10,579,460 1,736,165 Bernard (99.28) (0.72) 5. To elect Mrs Janis Kong 1,467,760,411 11,131,952 249,020 (99.25) (0.75) 6. To re-elect Mr Phil 1,468,335,357 10,602,436 203,590 Bentley (99.28) (0.72) 7. To re-elect Mr John 1,467,798,537 11,127,795 214,683 Nelson (99.25) (0.75) 8. To re-elect Mr Michael 1,460,569,015 14,130,108 4,442,260 Hepher (99.04) (0.96) 9. To re-appoint the 1,431,351,764 24,596,109 23,193,158 auditors and to (98.31) (1.69) authorise the directors to agree their remuneration 10. To authorise the 1,417,199,641 60,708,271 1,233,401 directors to allot (95.89) (4.11) shares 11. To authorise the 1,336,282,196 141,364,180 1,494,047 directors to make (90.43) (9.57) donations to EU political organisations and to incur EU political expenditure 12. To authorise the 1,324,857,637 154,088,941 194,805 disapplication of (89.58) (10.42) pre-emption rights 13. To authorise the Company 1,478,770,594 202,985 167,804 to purchase its own (99.99) (0.01) ordinary shares (1) A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against the resolution. The total issued share capital voted on was 2,359,939,719 A document listing the Resolutions passed at the AGM of Kingfisher plc has beensubmitted to the UK Listing Authority, and will shortly be available forinspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which issituated at: Financial Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E145HS Tel. No (020) 7066 8333 For further information in connection with this announcement please contact theCompany Secretarial Department at Kingfisher plc on 020 7372 8333. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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