15th May 2026 15:00
15 May 2026
Grafton Group plc
(the "Company")
Results of the Annual General Meeting of the Company
held at 10.30am (Irish Time) on 15 May 2026
Grafton Group plc (the "Company") held its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") on 15 May 2026 during which all ordinary and special resolutions were duly passed.
All resolutions, as set out in the Notice of AGM dated 23 March 2026, 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 2025. | 117,877,738 | 99.99% | 383 | 0.01% | 54,718 |
2 | To declare and pay a final dividend of 27.0 pence per Ordinary Share for the year ended 31 December 2025. | 117,929,480 | 99.99% | 913 | 0.01% | 2,446 |
3A | To re-elect Ian Tyler as a Director. | 104,458,859 | 88.58% | 13,471,051 | 11.42% | 2,929 |
3B | To re-elect Eric Born as a Director. | 117,900,970 | 99.98% | 28,940 | 0.02% | 2,929 |
3C | To re-elect David Arnold as a Director. | 117,326,607 | 99.49% | 603,303 | 0.51% | 2,929 |
3D | To re-elect Rosheen McGuckian as a Director. | 117,283,989 | 99.45% | 645,921 | 0.55% | 2,929 |
3E | To re-elect Avis Darzins as a Director. | 117,282,794 | 99.45% | 646,530 | 0.55% | 3,515 |
3F | To re-elect Mark Robson as a Director. | 117,284,125 | 99.45% | 645,785 | 0.55% | 2,929 |
3G | To elect David Dillon as a Director. | 117,283,380 | 99.45% | 646,530 | 0.55% | 2,929 |
3H | To elect Andrea Gisle Joosen as a Director. | 117,023,889 | 99.23% | 905,571 | 0.77% | 3,379 |
4 | To consider the continuation in office of PricewaterhouseCoopers as Auditors of the Company. | 117,178,345 | 99.37% | 748,331 | 0.63% | 6,163 |
5 | To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the Auditors for the year ended 31 December 2026. | 117,930,368 | 99.99% | 303 | 0.01% | 2,168 |
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 2025. | 117,736,456 | 99.84% | 192,594 | 0.16% | 3,789 |
7 | To receive and consider the 2026 Remuneration Policy. | 112,867,284 | 95.71% | 5,060,271 | 4.29% | 5,284 |
8 | To approve the convening of an Extraordinary General Meeting on 14 clear days' notice. | 113,827,674 | 96.52% | 4,102,672 | 3.48% | 2,493 |
9 | To authorise the Directors to allot relevant securities. | 117,436,281 | 99.58% | 490,294 | 0.42% | 6,264 |
10 | 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. | 117,902,449 | 99.99% | 14,705 | 0.01% | 15,685 |
11 | To authorise market purchases of the Company's own shares. | 117,769,085 | 99.97% | 34,993 | 0.03% | 128,761 |
12 | To determine the price range for the re-issue of treasury shares off-market. | 117,799,577 | 99.99% | 1,087 | 0.01% | 132,175 |
13 | To approve amendments to the Rules of the 2021 LTIP Plan | 117,145,509 | 99.34% | 776,958 | 0.66% | 10,372 |
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 117,932,839 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 23 March 2026 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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