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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Hammerson plc (the "Company")
Annual Report, Notice of Annual General Meeting and publication of Circular
23 March 2022
The Company announces that the following documents have today been posted or otherwise made available to shareholders:
- Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2021 (in both PDF format and structured electronic format);
- Notice of 2022 Annual General Meeting;
- Circular relating to the proposed enhanced scrip dividend alternative (the "Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative"); and
- Form of Proxy (South Africa).
The above documents have been uploaded to the UK National Storage Mechanism and Euronext Dublin and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and https://direct.euronext.com/#/oamfiling (where the Annual Report and Financial Statements will be available in unedited full text).
The 2021 Annual Report, Notice of 2022 Annual General Meeting, Circular relating to the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative and Form of Proxy (South Africa) are also available on the Company's website at www.hammerson.com.
The Annual General Meeting ("the AGM") will be held at 11.00 am (UK Time) on Thursday, 28 April 2022 at Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GE. Only persons entered on the UK Principal register of shareholders or the South Africa Branch register of the Company at 6.30 pm on Tuesday, 26 April 2021 shall be entitled to attend and vote at the AGM. The last day to trade in the Company's shares in order to be recorded as a shareholder by the voting record date is therefore Friday, 22 April 2022 for persons to be included onto the UK Principal register and Thursday, 21 April 2022 for persons to be entered onto the South Africa Branch register.
In line with prevailing UK Government regulations and guidance in relation to Covid-19 as at the date of this announcement, shareholders are permitted to attend the AGM in person should they wish to do so. The health and safety of our shareholders, colleagues and other stakeholders is vitally important to the Company. Shareholders who plan to attend the AGM in person are asked not to do so if they are displaying any symptoms of Covid-19.
Shareholders are entitled to vote by way of proxy in advance of the AGM. It is important that you complete, sign and return a Form of Proxy in accordance with the instructions printed on it. To be valid, the Form of Proxy must be lodged with the Company's Registrar by no later than 11:00 a.m. (UK time) and 12:00 p.m. (SA time) on Tuesday, 26 April 2021. Shareholders on the UK Register can vote online at www.signalshares.co.uk or obtain a copy of the UK Form of Proxy from the Company's UK Registrar, Link Group. Shareholders on the SA Register can obtain a copy of the Form of Proxy (South Africa) from the SA Transfer Secretaries, Computershare Investor Services. See the notes to the Notice of 2022 Annual General Meeting for more information.
The Board continues to recognise the value in maintaining engagement with the Company's shareholders. Although shareholders will be able to ask questions at the AGM, shareholders who wish to put a question to the Board relating to the business to be conducted at the AGM may wish to email investorrelations@hammerson.com to submit their question in advance of the AGM. The Company will endeavour to respond to questions submitted by 11.00am (UK time) / 12.00pm (South Africa time) on Friday, 22 April 2022 on www.hammerson.com/investors/shareholder-centre in advance of the proxy voting deadline on Tuesday, 26 April 2022 at 11.00am (UK time) / 12.00pm (South Africa time). Where questions are received after 11.00am (UK time) / 12.00pm (South Africa time) on Friday, 22 April 2022, the Company will respond as soon as practicable, which may be after the AGM. The Company reserves the right to consolidate questions of a similar nature.
Alice Darwall
General Counsel and Company Secretary
+44 (0) 20 7887 1000
This announcement has also been released on the SENS system of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and on Euronext Dublin.