Governance
Governance
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- Introduction and Statement of Compliance
- The Board
- Directors' indemnity and insurance
- Attendance
- Audit committee
- Remuneration committee
- Nominations committee
- Relations with shareholders
- Risk and internal control
- Going concern
- Statement of directors' responsibilities
- Directors' Responsibility Statement
Relations with shareholders
The Company considers its relationship with both institutional and private investors to be important and readily enters into dialogue with investors. The Company has consulted extensively with its principal shareholders in the course of 2012 in relation to the ongoing progress of the Company and also in relation to identifying appropriate executive incentive arrangements. The Company is aware of the stewardship obligations of institutional investors as set out in the UK Stewardship Code and will continue to work with its institutional investors to ensure that they are able to satisfy these requirements.
Both of the executive directors, the Chairman and the Senior Independent Director met with shareholders during the year and all of the directors make themselves available for meetings with shareholders as required.
The Company's website (www. howdenjoinerygroupplc.com) includes a specific investor relations section and provides an effective channel for communication with existing and potential investors. The Board receives regular reports from the CFO with regard to relations with the major shareholders and developments and changes in their shareholdings. The Board also commissions regular feedback reports from the Company's joint brokers, UBS and JP Morgan Cazenove.
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) provides shareholders with an opportunity to discuss the Group's progress and operations directly with the Board. At the AGM, the Company proposes separate resolutions on each substantially separate issue and the numbers of proxy votes cast for and against each resolution are made available to shareholders when voting has been completed. The notice of the AGM is sent to shareholders at least twenty working days before the meeting.