Regulatory information Directors’ report continued SHARE CAPITAL AND TREASURY SHARES DIRECTORS The Company has only one class of shares, Ordinary Shares Details of the Directors of the Company who served on the of 1p each. Board during the year, and the biographies of those on the Board at the date of this report are set out on pages 96 to 99. The issued Ordinary Share capital of the Company has not Details of changes to the Board during the period are set out changed during the period. on page 120. Details of the interests of the Directors in shares of the Company are in the Implementation Report section of At 26 June 2021, the Company held 160,319 Ordinary Shares the Remuneration Report on page 163. in treasury (2020: 573,590). POWERS OF DIRECTORS During the period the Company did not purchase any Specific powers of the Directors in relation to shares and Ordinary Shares into treasury. 413,271 shares were transferred the Company’s Articles of Association are referred to in the to employees who exercised options under a share incentive Corporate Governance Report on pages 118 to 119. scheme or Directors under the LTIP scheme. Details of option exercises by Directors are set out in the Remuneration Report. EMPLOYEE INFORMATION Information relating to employees of the Group, including our Since the financial year end, 21,289 Ordinary Shares have approach to disabled persons, is set out in the ‘Community’ been moved out of treasury to employees who exercised section of the Sustainability section on pages 66 to 73. options under a share incentive scheme. Share incentive schemes in which employees participate are SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS described in the Remuneration Report on pages 143 to 146. At 26 June 2021 the following had notified the Company of a disclosable interest in 3% or more of the nominal value of the DONATIONS Company’s Ordinary Shares: The Group does not make any political donations. Ordinary Percentage of Shares share capital PUBLIC POLICY Sir Will Adderley 75,231,779 37.7 We are members of the British Retail Consortium and support Jean Adderley 9,968,500 4.9 relevant campaigning activity by that body. During November J P Morgan Asset Management 11,320,031 5.6 2020 we wrote to government ministers expressing the Abrdn plc 10,274,359 5.1 arguments for allowing homewares stores to open as ‘essential’ stores. Otherwise, we have not taken part in Royal London Asset any direct lobbying or public policy activity. Management Limited 9,907,809 4.9 Sir Will Adderley is also deemed to hold a legal interest in 967,250 Ordinary Shares held by The Stoneygate Trust (formerly known as The Leicester Foundation) and 172,750 Ordinary Shares held by thePaddocks Discretionary Trust, by virtue of the fact that he is a trustee of those trusts. Between the period end date and 8 September 2021 we have been notified of the following holding: Jupiter Fund Management PLC 10,313,568 5.1 174 DUNELM GROUP PLCANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS 2021