20 Jan 2011 14:09
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: RESOLUTIONS
Wolseley plc is pleased to announce that, at its AGM held earlier today, shareholders passed each of the ordinary and special resolutions by the requisite majorities on a poll. The full text of each resolution is contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available on the Company's website, www.wolseley.com.
The total number of votes cast for each resolution is set out in the table below.
RESOLUTION NUMBER | IN FAVOUR | DISCRETIONARY | AGAINST | WITHHELD | |||
VOTES | %* | VOTES | %* | VOTES | %* | VOTES | |
1 | 218,067,662 | 98.56% | 17,865 | 0.01% | 3,182,121 | 1.44% | 10,384 |
2 | 214,043,363 | 97.28% | 17,398 | 0.01% | 5,980,220 | 2.72% | 1,236,584 |
3 | 219,699,629 | 99.30% | 17,149 | 0.01% | 1,556,264 | 0.70% | 4,274 |
4 | 219,790,848 | 99.34% | 15,979 | 0.01% | 1,465,717 | 0.66% | 3,602 |
5 | 219,791,342 | 99.34% | 15,958 | 0.01% | 1,465,223 | 0.66% | 3,602 |
6 | 215,112,203 | 97.22% | 15,789 | 0.01% | 6,143,103 | 2.78% | 4,861 |
7 | 219,304,067 | 99.12% | 16,329 | 0.01% | 1,952,590 | 0.88% | 3,510 |
8 | 217,222,682 | 98.18% | 16,308 | 0.01% | 4,034,147 | 1.82% | 3,338 |
9 | 214,783,190 | 97.70% | 16,233 | 0.01% | 6,193,023 | 2.80% | 283,954 |
10 | 205,104,027 | 92.70% | 17,739 | 0.01% | 16,153,296 | 7.30% | 2,844 |
11 | 206,098,251 | 93.93% | 16,770 | 0.01% | 13,309,696 | 6.07% | 1,852,220 |
12 | 215,869,107 | 97.73% | 17,163 | 0.01% | 5,005,494 | 2.27% | 385,566 |
13 | 196,261,978 | 89.45% | 16,247 | 0.01% | 23,149,893 | 10.46% | 1,848,296 |
14 | 219,437,609 | 99.18% | 15,887 | 0.01% | 1,817,736 | 0.82% | 4,822 |
15 | 217,375,843 | 99.82% | 18,114 | 0.01% | 396,343 | 0.18% | 3,487,981 |
* percentage of votes cast excludes withheld votes.
Total number of votes cast was 221,260,117. At the close of business on 19 January 2011, the issued share capital was 284,525,483 ordinary shares.
A copy of the Non Routine Resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.
For further information please contact:
Wolseley plc
Richard I Shoylekov
Group Company Secretary and General Counsel
+ 44 (0)118 929 8700
+ 41 (0) 41 723 23 23
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