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7 July 2020
Premier Foods plc ("Premier Foods" or the "Company")
Annual Report and Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
Following the release of Premier Food's preliminary results on 24 June 2020 for the 52 week period ended 28 March 2020, the Company has today posted its 2019/20 annual report to shareholders.
The Company's 2020 AGM will be held at 11.00 am on Wednesday 12 August 2020.
As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are making changes to the way in which we conduct this year's AGM. In light of the UK Government's current guidance on public gatherings, and the new regulations set out in Schedule 14 of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act, the Board has concluded that shareholders cannot be permitted to attend the AGM in person this year.
The AGM will be held by electronic means and will be kept as concise and efficient as possible with the minimum necessary quorum of two shareholders in order to conduct the business of the meeting. The format of the meeting will be purely functional to comply with relevant legal requirements.
Instead of attending this year's AGM, shareholders are asked to exercise their votes by submitting their proxy electronically or by post as soon as possible, and these must be received by no later than 11.00 am on Monday 10 August 2020. Shareholders who wish to appoint a proxy are recommended to appoint the chair of the meeting as their proxy. As a result of the current Government restrictions, if a shareholder appoints someone else as their proxy, that proxy will not be able to attend the meeting in order to cast the shareholder's vote.
Your votes do matter. Proxy instructions (which include the ability to lodge proxies electronically) are set out in the Notice of AGM. Shareholders are also invited to submit questions in advance of the meeting via email at investor.relations@premierfoods.co.uk by no later than 11.00 am on Monday 10 August 2020. We will endeavour to answer questions received in advance, by publishing responses on thematic topics on our website either prior to, or shortly after, the Annual General Meeting.
Copies of the annual report and Notice of AGM are available to view or download from the Company's website, www.premierfoods.co.uk, and have been submitted to the Financial Conduct Authority's National Storage Mechanism (NSM), and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
For more information please contact:
Richard Godden, Director of Investor Relations & Treasury +44 (0)1727 815850
Hannah Collyer, Corporate Affairs Director +44 (0)1727 815850
Headland
Ed Young +44 (0)7884 666830
Francesca Tuckett +44 (0)7884 667661