RNS Number : 3203B
Kingfisher PLC
15 June 2016
 

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
Votes

% 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.

 

CONTACT

 

Investor Relations

+44 (0) 20 7644 1029

 

Media Relations

+44 (0) 20 7644 1030

 

 


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