19 Nov 2020 10:40
19 November 2020
For immediate release
Finsbury Food Group Plc Results of Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting of Finsbury Food Group Plc was held at the offices of ONE Advisory Limited, 201 Temple Chambers, 3-7 Temple Avenue, London, EC4Y 0DT at 9.30 am on Thursday, 19 November 2020. All 8 resolutions put to members were duly passed on a poll. Resolutions 1 to 6 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 7 and 8 were passed as special resolutions. The number of votes lodged on the poll for and against each of the resolutions proposed (which should be read alongside the Notice of Annual General Meeting) is set out below.
* A vote withheld is not a vote in law.
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For further information:
Finsbury Food Group John Duffy (Chief Executive) Steve Boyd (Finance Director)
| www.finsburyfoods.co.uk | 029 20 357 500 |
Cenkos Securities Max Hartley (Corporate Finance)
| 0207 397 8900 | |
Alma PR Rebecca Sanders-Hewett Sam Modlin
| finsbury@almapr.co.uk | 020 3405 0205 |
Notes to editors:
· Finsbury Food Group Plc (AIM: FIF) is a leading UK manufacturer of cake and bread bakery goods, supplying a broad range of blue chip customers within both the grocery retail and 'out of home eating' foodservice sectors including major multiples and leading foodservice providers.
· The Company is one of the largest speciality bakery groups in the UK and, with its Overseas division, has sales in the financial year ending 27 June 2020 exceeding £306m.
· The Company's bakery product range is comprehensive and includes:
o Large premium and celebration cakes.
o Small snacking cake formats such as cake slices and bites.
o Artisan, healthy lifestyle and organic breads through to rolls, muffins (sweet and savoury) and morning pastries, all of which are available both fresh and frozen dependent on customer channel requirements.
o Gluten Free bread, morning goods and cake ranges.
· The Company is one of the largest ambient cake manufacturers in the UK, a market valued at over £969 million (source: IRI 52 w/e 12th September 2020). The retail bread and morning goods market has a value of £4.9 billion (source: Kantar Worldpanel 52 w/e 6th September 2020). The retail Free From cake market is valued at £52 million (source: Kantar Worldpanel 52 w/e 17th May 2020). The retail Free From bread & morning goods market is valued at £143 million (source: Kantar Worldpanel 52 w/e 6th September 2020). The UK Out of Home Foodservice Bakery sector is worth approximately £740bn per annum (source: UK foodservice data derived from MCA data for 52 weeks to 31st March 2020).
· The Company comprises a core UK Bakery division and an Overseas division:
o The UK Bakery division has manufacturing sites in Cardiff, East Kilbride, Hamilton, Salisbury, Sheffield, Manchester, and Pontypool.
o The Overseas division comprises the Company's 50% owned company, Lightbody Stretz Ltd, which supplies and distributes the Group's UK-manufactured products and third party products, primarily to Europe, and the Company's manufacturing facilities in Rybarzowice and Zywiec in Poland.