At the Annual General Meeting of Howden Joinery Group Plc held on 8 May 2014, 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 12 to 19 were passed as special business of the AGM. Resolutions 16 to 19 were passed as special resolutions.

The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue at the close of business on 7 May 2014 was 646,444,702.

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

Resolution Number		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*
1	Annual report & accounts	466,299,007	100.00	1,784	0.00	466,300,791	72.13%	2,585
2	Final Dividend	466,300,906	100.00	594	0.00	466,301,500	72.13%	1,876
3	Elect Richard Pennycook	465,377,315	99.80	914,488	0.20	466,291,803	72.13%	11,573
4	Re-elect Will Samuel	458,310,085	99.26	3,426,469	0.74	461,736,554	71.43%	4,566,822
5	Re-elect Michael Wemms	465,091,303	99.74	1,205,302	0.26	466,296,605	72.13%	6,771
6	Re-elect Tiffany Hall	465,383,379	99.80	913,549	0.20	466,296,928	72.13%	6,448
7	Re-elect Mark Allen	465,185,802	99.76	1,107,331	0.24	466,293,133	72.13%	6,785
8	Re-elect Matthew Ingle	465,466,238	99.82	829,697	0.18	466,295,935	72.13%	7,441
9	Re-elect Mark Robson	463,870,819	99.48	2,425,416	0.52	466,296,235	72.13%	7,141
10	Re-appoint Auditors	459,454,802	98.85	5,351,462	1.15	464,806,264	71.90%	1,497,112
11	Auditors' Remuneration	461,247,286	98.92	5,050,259	1.08	466,297,545	72.13%	5,831
12	Remuneration Report	460,401,783	98.83	5,463,097	1.17	465,864,880	72.07%	438,496
13	Remuneration Policy	448,724,982	98.41	7,257,834	1.59	455,982,816	70.54%	10,319,810
14	Authority to make political donations	460,842,828	98.85	5,339,162	1.15	466,181,990	72.11%	118,386
15	Authority to allot shares	447,243,491	96.00	18,655,851	4.00	465,899,342	72.07%	404,034
16	Disapply of pre-emption rights	459,516,784	99.86	625,708	0.14	460,142,492	71.18%	6,160,134
17	Purchase own shares	464,496,669	99.61	1,802,230	0.39	466,298,899	72.13%	4,477
18	Authority to call a general meeting on 14 clear days' notice	439,764,357	94.40	26,110,868	5.60	465,875,225	72.07%	428,151
19	Articles of Association	454,755,273	99.02	4,523,755	0.98	459,279,028	71.05%	7,023,348

*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.

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 www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

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

 

Enquiries should be directed to:

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