HARWORTH GROUP PLC

AGM Information • May 24, 2022

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Harworth Group PLC

24 May 2022

24 May 2022                                                                                                                            LEI: 213800R8JSSGK2KPFG21

Harworth Group plc

Results of Annual General Meeting and notice of interim results

Annual General Meeting

Harworth Group plc (the "Company") announces that at its Annual General Meeting held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday 24 May 2022 all resolutions in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 14 April 2022 were passed by the necessary majority on a show of hands.  

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

The number of ordinary shares in issue on 24 May 2022 was 322,935,490 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.

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  year ended 31 December 2021	285,558,987	100.00%	9,321	0.00%	285,568,308	40,314
02	To declare a final dividend of 0.845 pence per ordinary share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2021	285,598,101	100.00%	8,321	0.00%	285,606,422	2,200
03	To re-elect Alastair Lyons as a director of the Company	278,727,347	98.40%	4,535,291	1.60%	283,262,638	2,345,984
04	To re-elect Lynda Shillaw as a director of the Company	284,768,283	99.78%	636,514	0.22%	285,404,797	203,825
05	To re-elect Katerina Patmore as a director of the Company	285,368,787	99.99%	35,987	0.01%	285,404,774	203,848
06	To re-elect Angela Bromfield as a director of the Company	275,507,941	96.53%	9,898,674	3.47%	285,406,615	202,007
07	To re-elect Ruth Cooke as a director of the Company	284,789,189	99.78%	614,792	0.22%	285,403,981	204,641
08	To re-elect Lisa Scenna as a director of the Company	282,539,624	99.00%	2,865,190	1.00%	285,404,814	203,808
09	To re-elect Patrick O'Donnell Bourke as a director of the Company	285,380,972	99.99%	16,776	0.01%	285,397,748	210,874
10	To re-elect Steven Underwood as a director of the Company	285,362,984	99.99%	27,884	0.01%	285,390,868	217,754
11	To re-elect Martyn Bowes as a director of the Company	285,373,596	99.99%	27,580	0.01%	285,401,176	207,446
12	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2021	277,179,940	97.13%	8,191,420	2.87%	285,371,360	237,262
13	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy	261,511,584	91.58%	24,043,640	8.42%	285,555,224	53,398
14	To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the auditors of the Company	285,488,262	99.96%	100,344	0.04%	285,588,606	20,016
15	To give authority to the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration	285,572,422	99.99%	19,779	0.01%	285,592,201	16,421
16	To authorise political donations	284,538,188	99.63%	1,050,690	0.37%	285,588,878	19,744
17	Authority to allot shares	285,518,433	99.97%	85,076	0.03%	285,603,509	5,113
18	To approve amendments to the Harworth 2019 Restricted Share Plan	261,835,519	91.69%	23,742,233	8.31%	285,577,752	30,870
Special resolutions
19	Authority to dis-apply pre-emption rights	285,493,687	99.96%	109,862	0.04%	285,603,549	5,073
20	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	285,353,565	99.91%	253,210	0.09%	285,606,775	1,847
21	To reduce notice of general meetings (other than AGM) to 14 clear days	285,204,190	99.86%	401,140	0.14%	285,605,330	3,292

Notice of interim results

The Company will be publishing its unaudited interim results for the half year ended 30 June 2022 on Tuesday 13 September 2022. 

-ENDS-

Enquiries

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

NOTES TO EDITORS

ABOUT HARWORTH GROUP PLC

Listed on the premium segment of the main market, Harworth Group plc (LSE: HWG) is a leading sustainable regenerator of land and property for development and investment which owns, develops and manages a portfolio of approximately 14,000 acres of land on around 100 sites located throughout the North of England and Midlands. The Group specialises in the regeneration of large, complex sites, in particular former industrial sites, into new residential and industrial & logistics developments (www.harworthgroup.com).

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