Annual General Meeting
The Company's Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at 11am on Monday 19 May 2008. After considering separate resolutions relating to the Company's Annual Report and Accounts, the Directors' remuneration report, a final dividend, the re-appointment of the auditors (and the setting of their fees) and the individual election or re-election of certain Directors of the Company, shareholders will be asked to consider proposals to:
- Grant the Directors limited power to allot the Company's ordinary shares and to disapply, to a limited extent, shareholders' pre-emption rights in respect of new ordinary shares issued for cash
- Grant the Directors limited authority to make market purchases of the Company's ordinary shares
- Grant the Company and its subsidiaries limited authority to make certain payments and incur certain expenditure which might inadvertently breach the provisions of Part 14 of the Companies Act 2006 (Control of Political Donations and Expenditure)
- Adopt new articles of association.
Information about the meeting venue and full details of the resolutions to be proposed, together with explanatory notes, are set out in the AGM guide.



