8th May 2025 15:00
8 May 2025
Grafton Group plc
(the "Company")
Results of the Annual General Meeting of the Company
held at 10.30am (Irish Time) on 8 May 2025
Grafton Group plc (the "Company") held its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") on 8 May 2025 during which all ordinary and special resolutions were duly passed.
All resolutions, as set out in the Notice of AGM dated 24 March 2025, were voted on by way of a poll and the results were as follows:
Resolution | For | % | Against | % | Withheld | |
1 | To receive and consider the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024. | 114,501,053 | 99.998% | 2,377 | 0.002% | 816,209 |
2 | To declare and pay a final dividend of 26.5 pence per Ordinary Share for the year ended 31 December 2024. | 115,310,602 | 99.998% | 2,377 | 0.002% | 6,660 |
3(a) | To re-elect Ian Tyler as a Director. | 101,874,013 | 88.34% | 13,444,474 | 11.66% | 1,152 |
3(b) | To re-elect Eric Born as a Director. | 114,144,242 | 98.98% | 1,174,245 | 1.02% | 1,152 |
3(c) | To re-elect David Arnold as a Director. | 114,140,888 | 98.98% | 1,177,663 | 1.02% | 1,088 |
3(d) | To re-elect Susan Murray as a Director. | 113,256,072 | 98.21% | 2,062,479 | 1.79% | 1,088 |
3(e) | To re-elect Vincent Crowley as a Director. | 113,336,906 | 98.28% | 1,981,645 | 1.72% | 1,088 |
3(f) | To re-elect Rosheen McGuckian as a Director. | 114,005,775 | 98.86% | 1,312,776 | 1.14% | 1,088 |
3(g) | To re-elect Avis Darzins as a Director. | 113,977,829 | 98.84% | 1,340,658 | 1.16% | 1,152 |
3(h) | To re-elect Mark Robson as a Director. | 113,336,367 | 98.28% | 1,982,184 | 1.72% | 1,088 |
4 | To consider the continuation in office of PricewaterhouseCoopers as Auditors of the Company. | 114,583,722 | 99.99% | 8,058 | 0.01% | 727,859 |
5 | To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the Auditors for the year ended 31 December 2025. | 115,311,843 | 99.996% | 5,167 | 0.004% | 2,629 |
6 | To receive and consider the Chair's Annual Statement and the Annual Report on Remuneration of the Remuneration Committee for the year ended 31 December 2024. | 114,547,566 | 99.36% | 734,972 | 0.64% | 37,101 |
7 | To approve the convening of an Extraordinary General Meeting on 14 clear days' notice. | 109,993,307 | 95.41% | 5,290,619 | 4.59% | 35,713 |
8 | To authorise the Directors to allot relevant securities.
| 114,147,648 | 99.01% | 1,137,449 | 0.99% | 34,542 |
9 | To authorise the Directors to dis-apply statutory pre-emption rights and allot up to five per cent of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company. | 115,258,332 | 99.96% | 47,293 | 0.04% | 14,014 |
10 | To authorise market purchases of the Company's own shares. | 115,193,636 | 99.98% | 25,833 | 0.02% | 100,170 |
11 | To determine the price range for the re-issue of treasury shares off-market. | 115,260,429 | 99.98% | 20,151 | 0.02% | 39,059 |
Notes:
1. Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes received.
2. A vote "Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" or "Against" the resolution.
3. A total of 115,319,639 votes were validly cast for all resolutions.
The full text of these resolutions is set out in the Notice of AGM, which was included in the AGM Circular made available to shareholders on 24 March 2025 and which is available on the Company's website at: https://www.graftonplc.com/investors/shareholder-services/shareholder-meetings/.
As required by the Listing Rules of the London Stock Exchange, copies of all resolutions passed by the company other than resolutions concerning ordinary business have been forwarded to the UK's National Storage Mechanism where they will shortly be available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
For further information, please contact:
Rebecca McAleavey
Deputy Company Secretary
Grafton Group plc
Telephone: +353 1 2160600
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