At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 2 May 2018, 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 30 April 2018 was 616,954,475.

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	466,316,728	99.90	449,497	0.10	466,766,225	75.66	836,387
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	451,822,524	96.80	14,929,328	3.20	466,751,852	75.65	850,759
3	To declare a final dividend of 7.5 pence per ordinary share	466,821,358	100.00	1,159	0.00	466,822,517	75.67	780,095
4	To elect Andrew Livingston	462,686,381	99.12	4,131,111	0.88	466,817,492	75.66	785,120
5	To re-elect Mark Allen	458,095,325	98.19	8,427,452	1.81	466,522,777	75.62	1,079,834
6	To re-elect Andrew Cripps	461,481,535	98.86	5,336,449	1.14	466,817,984	75.66	784,628
7	To re-elect Geoff Drabble	458,095,556	99.02	4,528,432	0.98	462,623,988	74.99	4,978,623
8	To re-elect Tiffany Hall	458,997,960	98.33	7,817,930	1.67	466,815,890	75.66	786,722
9	To re-elect Richard Pennycook	460,288,003	98.60	6,530,525	1.40	466,818,528	75.66	784,084
10	To re-elect Mark Robson	462,435,068	99.06	4,383,460	0.94	466,818,528	75.66	784,084
11	To re-elect Debbie White	462,381,637	99.05	4,435,753	0.95	466,817,390	75.66	785,222
12	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the Auditor	456,221,597	97.73	10,587,514	2.27	466,809,111	75.66	793,500
13	To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditor	466,808,333	100.00	9,540	0.00	466,817,873	75.66	785,221
14	To renew authority to make political donations	455,658,722	97.64	11,035,857	2.36	466,694,579	75.64	907,504
15	To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares	435,569,142	93.16	31,970,793	6.84	467,539,935	75.78	62,677
Special Resolutions
16	To renew the Directors' authority for the disapplication of pre-emption rights	467,464,987	99.98	74,826	0.02	467,539,813	75.78	62,799
17	To renew the Directors' authority to make market purchases of the Company's own shares	462,773,248	99.01	4,617,955	0.99	467,391,203	75.76	211,408
18	To authorise general meetings to be held on 14 clear days' notice	447,479,649	95.86	19,338,348	4.14	466,817,997	75.66	784,615

*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/

 

Enquiries:

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