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1 April 2015
Good Energy Group PLC
("Good Energy" or "the Company")
Notice of AGM and posting of Scrip Dividend Circular
Notice of AGM
Good Energy announces that its Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2014 and Notice of AGM have been posted to shareholders today.
The Company will be holding the AGM at 10.30am on Monday 27 April 2015, at The Lansdowne Club, 9 Fitzmaurice Place, Mayfair, London W1J 5JD.
Copies of the Annual Report and Accounts and the Notice of AGM are also available on the Company's website at www.goodenergygroup.co.uk.
Scrip Dividend
Further to the announcement on the Company's preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2014 on 17 March 2015, in which the Directors recommended a final dividend of 2.3p per share for the period, the Board has decided to offer shareholders a scrip dividend alternative to this dividend. As such a circular and other documentation setting out full details relating to this scrip dividend has been sent to shareholders today.
If shareholders wish to receive all of this dividend by way of new shares in the Company, election forms need to be filed by 4pm on 11 May 2015. If no action is taken, the dividend will be paid as cash. The reference price of the scrip shares in respect of the dividend will be calculated and published on or around 30 April 2015.
The Company announces an updated timetable for the payment of the final dividend with a change in the record date from 8 May 2015 to 24 April 2015, as set out below:
1 April 2015 | Posting of scrip dividend circular |
23 April 2015 | Ordinary shares quoted ex dividend |
24 April 2015 | Record Date (accelerated from 8 May 2015) |
27 April 2015 | Annual General Meeting |
30 April 2015 | Scrip reference price published |
11 May 2015 | Final date for receipt of forms of election |
27 May 2015 | Posting of dividend cheques and tax vouchers |
28 May 2015 | Issue and allotment of ordinary shares as scrip dividend |
28 May 2015 | Posting of share certificates |
29 May 2015 | Dividend payment date |
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For further information, please contact:
Good Energy Group PLC | 01249 766795 |
Juliet Davenport, Chief Executive | |
Denise Cockrem, Chief Financial Officer | |
Arden Partners plc (Nomad & Broker) | 012 1423 8900 |
Steve Douglas | |
Michael McNeilly | |
Camarco (Financial PR Adviser) | 020 3757 4980 |
Geoffrey Pelham-Lane, Billy Clegg, Georgia Mann | |
Good Energy Press Office | 01249 765540 |
Gill Dickinson |
Notes to editors
- Good Energy is a fast-growing 100% renewable electricity supply company, offering value for money and award-winning customer service.
- An AIM-listed PLC, and founder member of the Social Stock Exchange, its mission is to support change in the energy market, address climate change and boost energy security.
- Good Energy matches over the course of a year all the electricity its customers use with power from renewable sources.
- The company has consistently performed well in the annual Which? energy company customer satisfaction survey, winning first or second place in each of the last four years Good Energy's dual fuel tariff is cheaper on average than the standard tariffs sold by the 'Big 6' before discounts.
- It now has more than 51.500 renewable electricity customers and 25,000 gas customers. It works with a community of 76,000 small and medium scale renewable electricity generators (All figures as at 31 Dec 2014).
- Good Energy is the owner of Delabole Wind Farm, the UK's first commercial wind farm, and also owns and operates Hampole Wind Farm, near Doncaster. The company also owns and operates four solar farms.