30th Jun 2010 17:05
Home Retail Group plc
(the "Company")
Results of Annual General Meeting 2010
The Board of Home Retail Group plc is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting today were duly passed. The results of the poll are as follows:
Votes For |
% Cast |
Votes Against |
% Cast |
Votes Withheld |
|
Resolution 1: To receive the Directors' Report, Auditors' Report and Financial Statements of the Company for the 52 weeks ended 27 February 2010 |
609,653,983 |
99.93 |
413,809 |
0.07 |
397,652 |
Resolution 2: To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the 52 weeks ended 27 February 2010 |
560,827,229 |
92.14 |
47,817,161 |
7.86 |
1,820,853 |
Resolution 3: To declare the payment of a final dividend of 10.0p per share |
610,204,548 |
99.99 |
1,622 |
0.01 |
259,074 |
Resolution 4: To elect Mike Darcey as a director |
607,228,752 |
99.53 |
2,866,230 |
0.47 |
370,262 |
Resolution 5: To re-elect Penny Hughes as a director |
607,268,641 |
99.52 |
2,909,184 |
0.48 |
287,419 |
Resolution 6: To re-appoint the auditor |
608,743,460 |
99.76 |
1,455,675 |
0.24 |
266,109 |
Resolution 7: To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditor |
609,517,845 |
99.89 |
671,091 |
0.11 |
276,308 |
Resolution 8: To authorise political donations and expenditure |
599,674,568 |
98.44 |
9,523,186 |
1.56 |
1,267,490 |
Resolution 9: To authorise the directors to allot unissued shares |
563,362,173 |
93.01 |
42,348,175 |
6.99 |
4,754,896 |
Resolution 10: To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights (Special Resolution) |
600,684,213 |
99.73 |
1,648,256 |
0.27 |
8,132,775 |
Resolution 11: To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares (Special Resolution) |
602,315,482 |
99.99 |
84,947 |
0.01 |
8,064,815 |
Resolution 12: To authorise the Company to call general meetings other than AGMs on not less than 14 days notice (Special Resolution) |
554,508,656 |
92.24 |
46,658,882 |
7.76 |
9,297,706 |
Resolution 13: To authorise the change to the Company's Performance Share Plan |
552,385,027 |
93.96 |
35,520,493 |
6.04 |
22,559,723 |
Resolution 14: To adopt new Articles of Association (Special Resolution) |
601,514,016 |
99.87 |
792,879 |
0.13 |
8,158,349 |
The total number of shares in issue is 847,390,001 ordinary shares of 10 pence each.
Votes withheld are not a vote in law, and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution.
Copies of all resolutions will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility at:
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS
The voting results will also shortly be available to view on the Home Retail Group plc website at www.homeretailgroup.com/home/investors/agm/.
Gordon Bentley
Secretary
30 June 2010
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