Richelieu reports on shareholders' voting results for the election of directors

MONTREAL, April 2, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ - Richelieu (TSX: RCH) held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders today. All the candidates proposed as directors were duly elected as directors of the Corporation by a majority of the votes cast by the shareholders present or represented by proxy at the Meeting, as follows:

	For		Withheld
	Number	%	Number	%
Sylvie Vachon	15,166,871	99.96	5,410	0.04
Denyse Chicoyne	14,617,713	96.34	554,568	3.66
Robert Courteau	14,615,010	96.33	557,271	3.67
Jean Douville	14,615,685	96.33	556,596	3.67
Mathieu Gauvin	14,787,161	97.46	385,120	2.54
Richard Lord	15,107,267	99.57	65,014	0.43
Marc Poulin	15,163,468	99.94	8,813	0.06
Jocelyn Proteau	14,684,343	96.78	487,938	3.22

About Richelieu Hardware Ltd.

Richelieu is a leading North American distributor, importer and manufacturer of specialty hardware and complementary products. Its products are targeted to an extensive customer base of kitchen and bathroom cabinet, furniture, and window and door manufacturers plus the residential and commercial woodworking industry, as well as a large customer base of hardware retailers, including renovation superstores. Richelieu offers customers a broad mix of high-end products sourced from manufacturers around the world. Its product selection consists of some 100,000 different items targeted to a base of more than 70,000 customers who are served by 66 centres in North America – 36 distribution centres in Canada, 28 in the United States and two manufacturing plants in Canada, specifically Cedan Industries Inc. which specializes in the manufacture of a wide variety of veneer sheets and edgebanding products and Menuiserie des Pins Ltée which manufactures components for the window and door industry and a broad selection of decorative mouldings.

SOURCE Richelieu Hardware Ltd.

Antoine Auclair, Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, Tel: [phone], www.richelieu.com