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Howden Joinery Group PLC
02 May 2018

HOWDEN JOINERY GROUP PLC

(the "Company")

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 2 May 2018, all resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a poll with the required majorities. The full text of each resolution is contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting. Resolutions 1 to 15 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 16 to 18 were passed as special resolutions.

The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held in treasury) at the close of business on 30 April 2018 was 616,954,475.

The final votes received in respect of each resolution put to the meeting were as set out below.

Votes for (including discretionary votes)

% Votes for

Votes

against

%

Votes

against

Total number of votes validly cast

% of the Company's issued share capital represented by votes validly cast

Votes withheld*

Ordinary Resolutions

1

To receive and adopt the Annual Report & Accounts

466,316,728

99.90

449,497

0.10

466,766,225

75.66

836,387

2

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

451,822,524

96.80

14,929,328

3.20

466,751,852

75.65

850,759

3

To declare a final dividend of 7.5 pence per ordinary share

466,821,358

100.00

1,159

0.00

466,822,517

75.67

780,095

4

To elect Andrew Livingston

462,686,381

99.12

4,131,111

0.88

466,817,492

75.66

785,120

5

To re-elect Mark Allen

458,095,325

98.19

8,427,452

1.81

466,522,777

75.62

1,079,834

6

To re-elect Andrew Cripps

461,481,535

98.86

5,336,449

1.14

466,817,984

75.66

784,628

7

To re-elect Geoff Drabble

458,095,556

99.02

4,528,432

0.98

462,623,988

74.99

4,978,623

8

To re-elect Tiffany Hall

458,997,960

98.33

7,817,930

1.67

466,815,890

75.66

786,722

9

To re-elect Richard Pennycook

460,288,003

98.60

6,530,525

1.40

466,818,528

75.66

784,084

10

To re-elect Mark Robson

462,435,068

99.06

4,383,460

0.94

466,818,528

75.66

784,084

11

To re-elect Debbie White

462,381,637

99.05

4,435,753

0.95

466,817,390

75.66

785,222

12

To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the Auditor

456,221,597

97.73

10,587,514

2.27

466,809,111

75.66

793,500

13

To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditor

466,808,333

100.00

9,540

0.00

466,817,873

75.66

785,221

14

To renew authority to make political donations

455,658,722

97.64

11,035,857

2.36

466,694,579

75.64

907,504

15

To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares

435,569,142

93.16

31,970,793

6.84

467,539,935

75.78

62,677

Special Resolutions

16

To renew the Directors' authority for the disapplication of pre-emption rights

467,464,987

99.98

74,826

0.02

467,539,813

75.78

62,799

17

To renew the Directors' authority to make market purchases of the Company's own shares

462,773,248

99.01

4,617,955

0.99

467,391,203

75.76

211,408

18

To authorise general meetings to be held on 14 clear days' notice

447,479,649

95.86

19,338,348

4.14

466,817,997

75.66

784,615

*A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law. Votes "withheld" were not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against each of the resolutions.

In accordance with the Listing Rules, a copy of the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection atwww.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

Full details of the poll results will also be available on the Company's website:www.howdenjoinerygroupplc.com/investors/shareholder/agm/

Enquiries:

Forbes McNaughton, Company Secretary: +44 (0) 207 535 1137


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