RESULT OF AGM
RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Wednesday 15 June 2016
Kingfisher plc (the 'Company') announces the result of voting on the resolutions at its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held on Wednesday 15 June 2016, as set out in the AGM notice.
A poll was held on each of the resolutions and was passed by the required majority. Resolutions 1 to 18 as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 19 to 21 as special resolutions were passed and the results of the poll were as follows:
Resolution |
Votes For* |
% |
Votes Against |
% |
Total |
% of ISC |
Votes** Withheld
|
|
1 |
To receive the report and accounts |
1,755,716,637 |
99.83 |
3,023,905 |
0.17 |
1,758,740,542 |
77.41% |
310,340 |
2 |
To approve the directors' remuneration report |
1,738,232,749 |
99.29 |
12,394,027 |
0.71 |
1,750,626,776 |
77.06% |
8,423,734 |
3 |
To approve the directors' remuneration policy |
1,690,379,201 |
98.71 |
22,137,385 |
1.29 |
1,712,516,586 |
75.38% |
46,532,822 |
4 |
To approve the Kingfisher Alignment Share and Transformation Incentive Plan ('KASTIP') |
1,680,121,469 |
98.11 |
32,428,316 |
1.89 |
1,712,549,785 |
75.38% |
46,501,096 |
5 |
To declare the final dividend |
1,758,899,303 |
100.00 |
17,103 |
0.00 |
1,758,916,406 |
77.42% |
133,713 |
6 |
To re-appoint Daniel Bernard as a director |
1,746,374,271 |
99.31 |
12,060,144 |
0.69 |
1,758,434,415 |
77.40% |
592,616 |
7 |
To re-appoint Andrew Bonfield as a director |
1,751,051,108 |
99.94 |
1,120,714 |
0.06 |
1,752,171,822 |
77.12% |
6,879,297 |
8 |
To re-appoint Pascal Cagni as a director |
1,758,615,320 |
99.99 |
208,896 |
0.01 |
1,758,824,216 |
77.42% |
203,254 |
9 |
To re-appoint Clare Chapman as a director |
1,758,608,157 |
99.99 |
226,461 |
0.01 |
1,758,834,618 |
77.42% |
213,131 |
10 |
To re-appoint Anders Dahlvig as a director |
1,744,605,431 |
99.58 |
7,328,708 |
0.42 |
1,751,934,139 |
77.11% |
7,114,309 |
11 |
To re-appoint Veronique Laury as a director |
1,758,620,167 |
99.99 |
138,956 |
0.01 |
1,758,759,123 |
77.41% |
267,908 |
12 |
To re-appoint Mark Seligman as a director |
1,758,658,851 |
99.99 |
198,522 |
0.01 |
1,758,857,373 |
77.42% |
193,308 |
13 |
To re-appoint Karen Witts as a director |
1,756,662,206 |
99.88 |
2,110,531 |
0.12 |
1,758,772,737 |
77.41% |
254,293 |
14 |
To appoint Rakhi (Parekh) Goss-Custard as a director |
1,758,163,498 |
99.96 |
651,895 |
0.04 |
1,758,815,393 |
77.42% |
235,287 |
15 |
To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as auditors |
1,750,518,140 |
99.99 |
215,873 |
0.01 |
1,750,734,013 |
77.06% |
8,316,392 |
16 |
To authorise the Audit Committee to agree the auditors' remuneration |
1,758,652,982 |
99.99 |
211,206 |
0.01 |
1,758,864,188 |
77.42% |
185,578 |
17 |
To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations |
1,730,479,019 |
99.05 |
16,510,621 |
0.95 |
1,746,989,640 |
76.90% |
12,029,109 |
18 |
To authorise the directors to allot shares |
1,528,510,298 |
87.28 |
222,854,448 |
12.72 |
1,751,364,746 |
77.09% |
7,688,604 |
19 |
To disapply pre-emption rights |
1,702,839,463 |
99.42 |
10,002,119 |
0.58 |
1,712,841,582 |
75.39% |
46,215,117 |
20 |
To authorise the company to purchase its own shares |
1,754,228,543 |
99.73 |
4,661,647 |
0.27 |
1,758,890,190 |
77.42% |
165,110 |
21 |
To authorise the Company to call a general meeting other than an annual general meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice |
1,560,990,254 |
89.35 |
186,144,721 |
10.65 |
1,747,134,975 |
76.90% |
11,916,703 |
NOTES
* Includes discretionary votes
** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and, therefore cannot be counted in the calculation of the proportion of
votes for and against a resolution.
As at 6.00pm on Monday 13 June 2016, the time by which shareholders who wanted to attend, speak and vote at the AGM must have been entered on the Company's register of members, the number of issued shares of the Company was 2,271,901,997 shares of 15 5/7 pence each.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed, other than those considered ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
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