Result of AGM

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  1 May 2025 HOWDEN JOINERY GROUP PLC (the "Company")     RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING     At the Annual Gener al Meeting of the Company held on 1 May 2025, 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 17 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 18 to 20 were passed as special resolutions.   All valid proxy votes (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form) were included in the poll taken at the meeting. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held in treasury) at the close of business on 30 April 2025 was 548,585,474.   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 454,372,129 99.81% 843,206 0.19% 455,215,335 82.96 5,342,892 2 To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report 370,021,567 80.49% 89,709,634 19.51% 459,731,201 83.78 827,273 3 To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy 453,171,778 99.50% 2,273,427 0.50% 455,445,205 83.00 5,113,269 4 To declare a final dividend of 16.3 pence per ordinary share 460,538,342 100.00% 6,118 0.00% 460,544,460 83.93 14,014 5 To elect Roisin Currie 450,519,835 97.84% 9,946,316 2.16% 460,466,151 83.91 92,323 6 To elect Tim Lodge 455,310,470 98.88% 5,158,147 1.12% 460,468,617 83.91 89,857 7 To elect Suzy Neubert 456,199,489 99.07% 4,267,432 0.93% 460,466,921 83.91 91,553 8 To re-elect Louis Eperjesi 449,498,580 97.62% 10,973,702 2.38% 460,472,282 83.92 86,192 9 To re-elect Louise Fowler 446,223,818 96.91% 14,247,022 3.09% 460,470,840 83.91 86,905 10 To re-elect Paul Hayes 459,332,612 99.75% 1,144,197 0.25% 460,476,809 83.92 81,462 11 To re-elect Andrew Livingston 460,448,386 99.99% 29,737 0.01% 460,478,123 83.92 81,567 12 To re-elect Vanda Murray 445,693,269 96.79% 14,778,521 3.21% 460,471,790 83.92 86,684 13 To re-elect Peter Ventress 428,404,877 93.83% 28,173,674 6.17% 456,578,551 83.21 3,979,923 14 To reappoint KPMG LLP ('KPMG') as auditor 460,151,059 99.92% 358,028 0.08% 460,509,087 83.92 49,387 15 To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration 460,179,719 99.92% 352,918 0.08% 460,532,637 83.93 25,930 16 To renew authority to make political donations 450,092,054 97.79% 10,167,234 2.21% 460,259,288 83.88 300,347 17 To renew the Directors' authority to allot shares 445,335,401 96.71% 15,138,122 3.29% 460,473,523 83.92 85,044 Special Resolutions 18 To renew the Directors' authority for the disapplication of pre-emption rights 455,648,879 99.07% 4,296,437 0.93% 459,945,316 83.82 613,158 19 To renew the Directors' authority to make market purchases of the Company's own shares 459,517,368 99.81% 881,853 0.19% 460,399,221 83.90 159,346 20 To authorise general meetings to be held on 14 clear days' notice 448,441,389 97.37% 12,093,516 2.63% 460,534,905 83.93 23,662 *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.   Full details of the poll results will also be available on the Company's website: www.howdenjoinerygroupplc.com/investors/shareholder/agm/   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 a t https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .       Enquiries Forbes McNaughton, Company Secretary:                             +44 (0) 207 535 1110

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