Results of AGM

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 2 May 2017, 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 total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held in treasury) at the close of business on 27 April 2017 was 629,956,307.

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	490,664,775	99.56	2,164,166	0.44	492,828,941	78.23%	892,168
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	468,357,142	97.07	14,135,645	2.93	482,492,787	76.59%	11,228,319
3	To declare a final dividend of 7.4 pence per ordinary share	492,898,472	100.00	1,900	0.00	492,900,372	78.24%	820,737
4	To elect Debbie White	492,866,716	100.00	21,856	0.00	492,888,572	78.24%	832,537
5	To re-elect Mark Allen	489,174,813	99.25	3,720,685	0.75	492,895,498	78.24%	825,610
6	To re-elect Andrew Cripps	489,115,494	99.23	3,777,005	0.77	492,892,499	78.24%	828,610
7	To re-elect Geoff Drabble	489,555,751	99.32	3,339,997	0.68	492,895,748	78.24%	825,360
8	To re-elect Tiffany Hall	484,913,492	98.38	7,982,580	1.62	492,896,072	78.24%	825,037
9	To re-elect Matthew Ingle	489,455,115	99.30	3,431,040	0.70	492,886,155	78.24%	828,660
10	To re-elect Richard Pennycook	488,581,576	99.12	4,315,173	0.88	492,896,749	78.24%	824,360
11	To re-elect Mark Robson	481,752,636	97.74	11,141,113	2.26	492,893,749	78.24%	825,360
12	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the Auditor	474,981,860	96.37	17,900,671	3.63	492,882,531	78.24%	837,577
13	To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditor	488,352,467	99.08	4,533,556	0.92	492,886,023	78.24%	835,086
14	To renew authority to make political donations	477,968,908	97.00	14,792,108	3.00	492,761,016	78.22%	957,466
15	To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares	458,175,123	93.20	33,426,465	6.80	491,601,588	78.04%	2,119,021
Special Resolutions
16	To renew the Directors' authority for the disapplication of pre-emption rights	492,413,165	99.98	81,418	0.02	492,494,583	78.18%	1,226,526
17	To renew the Directors' authority to make market purchases of the Company's own shares	481,667,608	97.80	10,815,995	2.20	492,483,603	78.18%	1,237,505
18	To authorise general meetings to be held on 14 clear days' notice	473,666,621	96.18	18,836,602	3.82	492,503,223	78.18%	1,217,885

*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.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

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

Retirement of Director

As previously announced, Michael Wemms stood down from the Board at the conclusion of the AGM.

 

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