24th May 2006 14:08
Kingfisher PLC24 May 2006 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 1,426,272,285 shares amounting to61.83% of the issued share capital. Not all shareholders voted on eachresolution. In addition, shareholders holding 38.17% of the issued share capitalrefrained from voting by not returning their proxy forms. 59 shareholdersrepresenting 1.2 million shares (0.05% of issued share capital) attended themeeting. Of this number, the Directors and the Company Secretary hold 887,153shares. Votes for (including the Chairman's discretionary votes) and againsteach resolution, from those returning the proxies, were as follows:- Resolution 1 (Annual Report) For/ Percentage of Against/Percentage of Percentage in FavourIssued Shares Issued Shares 1,426,175,575 1,366,364 99.90% 60.55% 0.10% Resolution 2 (Directors' Remuneration Report) For/ Percentage of Against/Percentage of Percentage in FavourIssued Shares Issued Shares 1,397,813,886 49,529,646 96.58% 59.35% 3.42% Resolution 3 (Kingfisher Incentive Share Scheme 2003) For/ Percentage of Against/Percentage of Percentage in FavourIssued Shares Issued Shares 1,414,966,487 20,961,851 98.54% 60.08% 1.46% Resolution 4 (Kingfisher 2006 Performance Share Plan) For/ Percentage of Against/Percentage of Percentage in FavourIssued Shares Issued Shares 1,423,328,061 30,897,946 97.88% 60.43% 2.12% Resolution 5 (Final Dividend) For/ Percentage of Against/Percentage of Percentage in FavourIssued Shares Issued Shares 1,436,849,274 3,710,766 99.74% 61.01% 0.26% Resolution 6 (Election of Mr Peter Jackson) For/ Percentage of Against/Percentage of Percentage in FavourIssued Shares Issued Shares 1,443,100,584 8,977,501 99.38% 61.27% 0.62% Resolution 7 (Re-election of Mr Ian Cheshire) For/ Percentage of Against/Percentage of Percentage in FavourIssued Shares Issued Shares 1,448,986,427 3,799,230 99.74% 61.52% 0.26% Resolution 8 (Re-election of Mr Hartmut Kramer) For/ Percentage of Against/Percentage of Percentage in FavourIssued Shares Issued Shares 1,450,556,819 1,683,072 99.88% 61.59% 0.12% Resolution 9 (Re-election of Mr Duncan Tatton-Brown) For/ Percentage of Against/Percentage of Percentage in FavourIssued Shares Issued Shares 1,447,650,977 3,797,967 99.74% 61.47% 0.26% Resolution 10 (Re-appointment of Auditors) For/ Percentage of Against/Percentage of Percentage in FavourIssued Shares Issued Shares 1,428,505,872 14,884,240 98.97% 60.65% 1.03% Resolution 11 (Authorisation to Allot Shares) For/ Percentage of Against/Percentage of Percentage in FavourIssued Shares Issued Shares 1,431,386,284 22,895,940 98.43% 60.78% 1.57% Resolution 12 (Disapplication of Pre-emption Rights) For/ Percentage of Against/Percentage of Percentage in FavourIssued Shares Issued Shares 1,434,250,114 12,048,510 99.17% 60.90% 0.83% Resolution 13 (Share Buyback) For/ Percentage of Against/Percentage of Percentage in FavourIssued Shares Issued Shares 1,452,693,421 1,650,681 99.89% 61.68% 0.11% 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 1000 Following the AGM a Board meeting was held at which, and as previouslyannounced: • M. Daniel Bernard was appointed a Director and Deputy Chairman of the Company. M. Daniel Bernard currently holds 10,000 shares in the Company and there is no other information required to be disclosed under 9.6.13R of the Listing Rules. • Sir Francis Mackay submitted his resignation as a Director and Chairman of the Company and Mr Peter Jackson was appointed as the Chairman. For further information in connection with this announcement please contact theCompany Secretarial Department at Kingfisher plc on 020 7372 8008. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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