RNS Number : 6891C Home Retail Group Plc 29 June 2016 Home Retail Group plc (the "Company") RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 29 JUNE 2016 The Board of Home Retail Group plc is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting today were duly passed. The results of the polls were as follows: Resolution Votes In Favour % Cast Votes Against % Cast * Votes Withheld 1 To receive the directors' report, auditors' report and financial statements 475,210,617 99.99% 53,429 0.01% 388,805 2 To approve the directors' remuneration report 461,054,916 99.53% 2,167,993 0.47% 12,429,942 3 To re-elect Richard Ashton 472,195,758 99.36% 3,035,067 0.64% 422,026 4 To re-elect John Coombe 457,996,139 99.38% 2,874,318 0.62% 14,782,394 5 To re-elect Mike Darcey 473,236,073 99.58% 2,002,587 0.42% 414,191 6 To re-elect Ian Durant 464,144,886 99.09% 4,243,312 0.91% 7,264,653 7 To re-elect Cath Keers 472,734,966 99.47% 2,510,507 0.53% 407,378 8 To re-elect Jacqueline de Rojas 473,233,630 99.58% 2,011,362 0.42% 407,859 9 To re-elect John Walden 451,310,938 94.97% 23,923,636 5.03% 418,277 10 To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors 461,656,764 97.13% 13,643,156 2.87% 352,931 11 To authorise the directors to fix the auditors' remuneration 470,198,621 98.93% 5,096,972 1.07% 357,258 12 To authorise political donations /incur EU political expenditure 459,093,457 96.60% 16,146,591 3.40% 412,803 13 To authorise the directors to allot unissued shares 437,577,331 92.06% 37,724,623 7.94% 350,897 14 To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights 407,840,485 88.37% 53,692,894 11.63% 14,118,182 15 To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares 467,246,096 98.25% 8,321,983 1.75% 84,671 16 To authorise meetings being called on not less than 14 working days' notice 439,357,538 92.43% 35,983,585 7.57% 311,728 * Votes withheld are not a vote in law, and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution. The total number of shares in issue is 813,445,001 ordinary shares of 10 pence each. Copies of all resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM The voting results will also shortly be available to view on the Home Retail Group plc website at http://www.homeretailgroup.com/investor-centre/agm/ Gordon Bentley Company Secretary This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange END RAGAKCDDQBKDCAB
Resolutions put to Home Retail Group's recent 352,931 11 general meeting passed. Among the measures agreed were the re-election of Richard Ashton, John Coombe and Mike Darcy, among others, to the board. PwC was retained as auditor and the company was authorised to purchase its own shares.