At the Annual General Meeting of Howden Joinery Group Plc held on 6 May 2015, 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 13 to 18 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 5 May 2015 was 651,580,815.

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	482,945,123	99.61	1,873,218	0.39	484,818,341	74.41%	225,848
2	Directors' remuneration report	472,485,448	97.46	12,336,984	2.54	484,822,432	74.41%	221,756
3	Final Dividend	484,838,872	100.00	3,344	0.00	484,842,216	74.41%	201,973
4	Re-elect Will Samuel	476,679,031	98.38	7,850,284	1.62	484,529,315	74.36%	514,373
5	Re-elect Matthew Ingle	483,553,136	99.73	1,286,180	0.27	484,839,316	74.41%	204,873
6	Re-elect Mark Robson	483,357,033	99.69	1,481,456	0.31	484,838,489	74.41%	205,700
7	Re-elect Mark Allen	477,431,315	99.43	2,716,428	0.57	480,147,743	73.69%	4,896,445
8	Re-elect Tiffany Hall	484,149,327	99.86	690,089	0.14	484,839,416	74.41%	204,773
9	Re-elect Richard Pennycook	477,428,174	98.47	7,409,165	1.53	484,837,339	74.41%	206,850
10	Re-elect Michael Wemms	484,167,009	99.86	670,557	0.14	484,837,566	74.41%	206,623
11	Re-appoint Auditors	462,377,741	95.37	22,452,908	4.63	484,830,649	74.41%	213,539
12	Auditors' Remuneration	478,579,736	98.71	6,242,438	1.29	484,822,174	74.41%	221,515
13	Authority to make political donations	479,706,347	98.96	5,056,203	1.04	484,762,550	74.40%	280,389
14	Approval of share plan rules	484,143,893	99.86	678,773	0.14	484,822,666	74.41%	219,523
15	Authority to allot shares	460,472,562	95.04	24,017,887	4.96	484,490,449	74.36%	551,740
16	Disapplication of pre-emption rights	475,657,793	99.95	258,170	0.05	475,915,963	73.04%	9,126,226
17	Purchase own shares	484,797,786	99.99	35,559	0.01	484,833,345	74.41%	208,844
18	Authority to call a general meeting on 14 clear days' notice	454,733,702	93.79	30,104,424	6.21	484,838,126	74.41%	206,063

*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: http://www.howdenjoinerygroupplc.com/investors/shareholder/agm/

 

Enquiries should be directed to:

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