At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 6 May 2021, all resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a poll with the required majorities. The full text of each resolution is contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting. Resolutions 1 to 15 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 16 to 18 were passed as special resolutions.

The AGM was convened with the requisite quorum of at least two shareholders (or their corporate representatives or proxies). The AGM comprised only the formal business as set out in the Notice of AGM (dated 17 March 2021).

All valid proxy votes (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form) were included in the poll taken at the meeting. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held in treasury) at the close of business on 5 May 2021 was 597,296,306.

The final votes received in respect of each resolution put to the meeting were as set out below:

 

		Votes for (including discretionary votes)	%  Votes for	Votes against	% Votes against	Total number of votes validly cast	% of the Company's issued share capital represented by votes validly cast	Votes withheld*
Ordinary Resolutions
1	To receive and adopt the Annual Report & Accounts	470,459,793	99.91%	412,574	0.09%	470,872,367	78.83%	5,551,921
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration  Report	454,168,793	95.36%	22,107,554	4.64%	476,276,347	79.74%	147,941
3	To declare a final dividend	474,361,001	99.59%	1,946,443	0.41%	476,307,444	79.74%	116,844
4	To elect Paul Hayes	475,440,706	99.83%	831,737	0.17%	476,272,443	79.74%	151,845
5	To re-elect Karen Caddick	473,870,318	99.49%	2,406,457	0.51%	476,276,775	79.74%	147,513
6	To re-elect Andrew Cripps	469,842,585	98.65%	6,431,888	1.35%	476,274,473	79.74%	149,815
7	To re-elect Geoff Drabble	412,648,905	88.72%	52,468,080	11.28%	465,116,985	77.87%	11,307,303
8	To re-elect Louise Fowler	474,581,427	99.64%	1,695,192	0.36%	476,276,619	79.74%	147,669
9	To re-elect Andrew Livingston	476,253,103	100.00%	22,584	0.00%	476,275,687	79.74%	148,601
10	To re-elect Richard Pennycook	455,963,538	99.03%	4,448,350	0.97%	460,411,888	77.08%	16,012,400
11	To re-elect Debbie White	474,585,056	99.64%	1,691,313	0.36%	476,276,369	79.74%	147,919
12	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the Auditor	468,371,170	98.34%	7,917,760	1.66%	476,288,930	79.74%	135,358
13	To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditor	475,123,179	99.76%	1,163,350	0.24%	476,286,529	79.74%	137,759
14	To renew authority to make political donations	464,088,858	97.54%	11,710,431	2.46%	475,799,289	79.66%	624,999
15	To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares	452,239,291	94.93%	24,147,676	5.07%	476,386,967	79.76%	37,321
Special Resolutions
16	To renew the Directors' authority for the disapplication of pre-emption rights	472,929,790	99.98%	90,445	0.02%	473,020,235	79.19%	3,404,053
17	To renew the Directors' authority to make market purchases of the Company's own shares	470,729,352	98.91%	5,170,558	1.09%	475,899,910	79.68%	524,378
18	To authorise general meetings to be held on 14 clear days' notice	463,250,629	97.26%	13,043,317	2.74%	476,293,946	79.74%	130,342

 

*A vote “withheld” is not a vote in law. Votes “withheld” were not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against each of the resolutions.

Full details of the poll results will also be available on the Company's website: www.howdenjoinerygroupplc.com/investors/shareholder/agm/

In accordance with the Listing Rules, a copy of the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.  

Enquiries

Forbes McNaughton, Company Secretary:                 +44 (0) 207 535 1137