HARWORTH GROUP PLC

AGM Information • Jun 29, 2020

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Harworth Group PLC

29 June 2020

29 June 2020                                                                                                                           LEI: 213800R8JSSGK2KPFG21

Harworth Group plc

Results of Annual General Meeting, appointment of Non-Executive Director and notice of interim results

Annual General Meeting

Harworth Group plc (the "Company") announces that at its Annual General Meeting held at 8:00a.m. on Monday 29 June 2020 all resolutions in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 5 June 2020 were passed by the necessary majority on a poll.  

Details of proxy voting instructions received in advance of the Annual General Meeting are shown in the table at the end of this announcement and will be posted on the Company's website, www.harworthgroup.com.

The number of ordinary shares in issue on 29 June 2020 was 322,236,872 ordinary shares.  A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of votes for or against a resolution.

Copies of all resolutions passed, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism.  They will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

Appointment of Non-Executive Director

The Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Lisa Scenna as a Non-Executive Director in succession to Lisa Clement, who will retire as Senior Independent Director on 30 September 2020.  Lisa Scenna's appointment will take effect on 1 September 2020.  She will join the Remuneration Committee with immediate effect upon her appointment. 

Lisa has over 20 years' experience working at executive director level in large multinational corporations both private and publicly listed with a strong background in real estate development and asset management.  Her most recent executive role was with Morgan Sindall Group as Managing Director of MS Investments. Prior to this, she held executive roles with Laing O'Rourke, having led their infrastructure investment activities globally, and Stockland Group and Westfield Group in Australia.  Lisa has also been a director of various public private partnerships, most recently as the Deputy Chair of the Private Infrastructure Development Group.

Lisa is a Non-Executive Director of Polypipe Group plc and is also a Non-Executive Director of Cromwell Property Group, an Australian listed company, where she is Chair of the Investment Committee.

She has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales, Sydney and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Alastair Lyons, Chair of Harworth, said: "I am delighted to have someone of Lisa Scenna's depth of experience and deep interest in our sector joining our Board. Lisa Clement will have served almost 9 years when she retires and we will miss her strong contribution to our thinking and her wise counsel"

Additional information:

Lisa Scenna is independent for the purposes of the UK Corporate Governance Code.  This announcement includes the information required by Listing Rules 9.6.11 to 9.6.13.  There is no information to report under Listing Rule 9.6.13 (2) - (6) inclusive.

Notice of interim results

The Company will be publishing its unaudited interim results for the half year ended 30 June 2020 on Tuesday 6 October 2020.  The Company will also issue a trading update prior to the end of July.

Annual General Meeting - proxy voting results

Res. No.	Brief Description	Votes for	%	Votes against	%	Total votes (ex. withheld)	Votes withheld
Ordinary resolutions
01	To adopt the Company's Annual Report and Financial Statements for the financial year ended 31 December 2019	225,788,220	100%	1,070	0%	225,789,290	4,887
02	To elect Kitty Patmore as a director of the Company	225,764,427	99.99%	16,290	0.01%	225,780,717	13,460
03	To re-elect Alastair Lyons as a director of the Company	225,760,791	100%	7,528	0%	225,768,319	25,858
04	To re-elect Owen Michaelson as a director of the Company	225,752,850	99.99%	26,452	0.01%	225,779,302	14,875
05	To re-elect Lisa Clement as a director of the Company	225,748,246	99.99%	25,035	0.01%	225,773,281	20,896
06	To re-elect Andrew Cunningham as a director of the Company	225,743,033	99.99%	25,503	0.01%	225,768,536	25,641
07	To re-elect Ruth Cooke as a director of the Company	225,745,282	99.98%	35,637	0.02%	225,780,919	13,258
08	To re-elect Angela Bromfield as a director of the Company	225,764,851	99.99%	15,866	0.01%	225,780,717	13,460
09	To re-elect Steven Underwood as a director of the Company	225,701,842	99.97%	77,443	0.03%	225,779,285	14,892
10	To re-elect Martyn Bowes as a director of the Company	225,705,808	99.97%	62,728	0.03%	225,768,536	25,641
11	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 December 2019	222,301,070	98.47%	3,444,900	1.53%	225,745,970	48,207
12	To appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the auditors of the Company	225,756,626	99.99%	28,943	0.01%	225,785,569	8,608
13	To give authority to the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration	225,719,262	99.97%	68,758	0.03%	225,788,020	6,157
14	To authorise political donations	222,183,073	98.41%	3,594,817	1.59%	225,777,890	16,287
15	Authority to allot shares	225,465,814	99.86%	314,213	0.14%	225,780,027	14,150
Special resolutions
16	Authority to dis-apply pre-emption rights	225,669,548	99.95%	119,148	0.05%	225,788,696	5,481
17	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	225,695,647	99.96%	95,382	0.04%	225,791,029	3,148
18	To reduce notice of general meetings (other than AGM) to 14 clear days	225,178,199	99.75%	563,481	0.25%	225,741,680	52,497

-ENDS-

Enquiries

Harworth Group plc
Chris Birch, General Counsel and Company Secretary	Tel: +44 (0)114 349 3131
Iain Thomson, Head of Communications and Investor Relations

NOTES TO EDITORS

ABOUT HARWORTH GROUP PLC

Listed on the premium segment of the main market, Harworth Group plc (LSE: HWG) invests to transform land and property into sustainable places where people want to live and work. Harworth owns and manages a portfolio of approximately 18,000 acres of land on around 100 sites located throughout the North of England and Midlands (harworthgroup.com).

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