Persimmon PLC

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Apr 16, 2014

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Persimmon PLC

16 April 2014

PERSIMMON PLC (THE 'COMPANY')

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING RESULTS

At the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 16 April 2014 each of the resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 17 March 2014 was passed on a show of hands.  

For information, a breakdown of proxy votes lodged prior to the meeting is available on the Company's website, www.corporate.persimmonhomes.com and a summary is set out below:-

	Resolution	For	% For	Against	% Against	Total Votes	Votes Withheld
1	Receive report and accounts	201,642,705	99.88	2,706	0.00	201,885,006	648,241
2	Approve Directors' Remuneration Policy	183,302,230	90.79	18,349,187	9.09	201,897,660	637,189
3	Approve Annual Report on Remuneration	186,859,634	93.18	13,435,360	6.70	200,540,133	1,992,374
4	Re-elect N Wrigley	199,070,567	98.51	2,753,570	1.36	202,074,683	460,237
5	Re-elect J Fairburn	200,758,582	99.35	1,052,043	0.52	202,073,573	461,347
6	Re-elect M Killoran	200,769,569	99.35	1,053,224	0.52	202,073,339	461,581
7	Re-elect N Greenaway	200,766,853	99.36	1,050,901	0.52	202,068,300	466,620
8	Elect D Jenkinson	200,747,510	99.35	1,055,432	0.52	202,066,243	468,677
9	Re-elect R Pennycook	200,841,539	99.39	978,031	0.48	202,071,189	463,731
10	Re-elect J Davie	200,826,035	99.38	994,146	0.49	202,071,788	463,132
11	Re-elect M Preston	200,930,562	99.43	883,186	0.44	202,073,766	461,154
12	Re-elect M Sears	200,980,425	99.46	849,064	0.42	202,076,499	458,332
13	Appoint auditor and authorise Directors to determine their remuneration	197,013,281	98.45	2,851,455	1.42	200,109,582	1,434,044
14	Adopt amended Articles and implement Return of Cash	200,133,875	99.85	60,144	0.03	200,434,416	1,107,623
15	Approve purchase of 2 properties by Nigel Greenaway	199,306,398	99.70	337,346	0.17	199,902,356	1,641,236
16	Authority to allot shares	199,531,143	99.45	867,263	0.43	200,638,991	904,721
17	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	199,736,460	99.56	648,661	0.32	200,629,198	914,425
18	Authority to make market purchases of shares	199,967,761	99.44	892,364	0.44	201,098,706	445,006
19	Calling of a general meeting on not less than 14 days notice	182,607,847	90.81	18,245,078	9.07	201,096,833	446,879

Notes:

(i)             Discretionary votes not shown.

(ii)            A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the total number of votes cast on a resolution or in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for or against a resolution.

(iii)           Resolutions 1-13 and 15 were ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 and 17-19 were special resolutions.

(iv)           The issued share capital of the Company on 16 April 2014 was 305,015,791 ordinary shares.

Copies of the resolutions dealing with special business passed at the Annual General Meeting have been sent to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection.

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