AGM
Annual General Meeting 2007
The Annual General Meeting of Kingfisher plc was held at The Hilton London Paddington Hotel, 146 Praed Street, London, W2 1EE on Thursday 31 May 2007 at 10.30am.
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AGM resolutions
All resolutions put to shareholders at the Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 31 May 2007 were passed on a show of hands.
Proxies were received from shareholders of up to 1,479,141,383 shares amounting to 62.68% of the issued share capital. Not all shareholders voted on each resolution. In addition, shareholders holding 37.32% of the issued share capital refrained from voting by not returning their proxy forms. 93 shareholders representing 885,525 shares (0.038% of issued share capital) attended the meeting. Of this number, the Directors and the Company Secretary hold 692,725 shares. Votes for (including the Chairman’s discretionary votes), against and votes withheld for each resolution, from those returning the proxies, were as follows:
| Resolution | Total Votes For (%) |
Total Votes Against (%) |
Votes Withheld |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. To receive the Annual Report 2007 | 1,475,971,878 (99.90) |
1,532,033 (0.10) |
1,636,898 |
| 2. To approve the directors’ Remuneration Report | 1,440,534,727 (97.66) |
34,569,062 (2.34) |
4,037,593 |
| 3. To declare the Final Dividend | 1,478,999,782 (99.99) |
27,962 (0.01) |
113,639 |
| 4. To elect Mr Daniel Bernard | 1,466,825,758 (99.28) |
10,579,460 (0.72) |
1,736,165 |
| 5. To elect Mrs Janis Kong | 1,467,760,411 (99.25) |
11,131,952 (0.75) |
249,020 |
| 6. To re-elect Mr Phil Bentley | 1,468,335,357 (99.28) |
10,602,436 (0.72) |
203,590 |
| 7. To re-elect Mr John Nelson | 1,467,798,537 (99.25) |
11,127,795 (0.75) |
214,683 |
| 8. To re-elect Mr Michael Hepher | 1,460,569,015 (99.04) |
14,130,108 (0.96) |
4,442,260 |
| 9. To re-appoint the auditors and to authorise the directors to agree their remuneration | 1,431,351,764 (98.31) |
24,596,109 (1.69) |
23,193,158 |
| 10. To authorise the directors to allot shares | 1,417,199,641 (95.89) |
60,708,271 (4.11) |
1,233,401 |
| 11. To authorise the directors to make donations to EU political organisations and to incur EU political expenditure | 1,336,282,196 (90.43) |
141,364,180 (9.57) |
1,494,047 |
| 12. To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights | 1,324,857,637 (89.58) |
154,088,941 (10.42) |
194,805 |
| 13. To authorise the Company to purchase its own ordinary shares | 1,478,770,594 (99.99) |
202,985 (0.01) |
167,804 |
The total issued share capital voted on was 2,359,939,719
For further information in connection with this announcement please contact the Company Secretarial Department at Kingfisher plc on 020 7372 8333.
