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Dividend
The Board recommends the payment of a final dividend for 2006 of 5.4p per share payable on 31 May 2007 to shareholders on the register of members on 30 March 2007.
This represents the total ordinary dividend for the year and will amount to an estimated £114m.
For more information on the dividend payment for May 2007 see the AGM guide.
Summary financial statements
The summary financial statements are aimed at providing shareholders with a summary of the position and performance of the Group. They do not contain sufficient information to allow as full an understanding of the results and state of affairs of the Group and of its policies and arrangements concerning Directors’ remuneration as would be provided by the full Annual Report and Accounts.
Shareholders have the right to obtain, free of charge, a copy of the full Annual Report and Accounts, which contains an unqualified audit opinion and is available on this website or from Computershare Investor Services PLC, The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol BS3 9DG.
If you would like to receive a copy in future years, please write to Computershare at the above address.
The summary financial statements were approved by authority of the Board on 22 March 2007 and signed on its behalf by Sir Brian Stewart and David Nish.
Forward-looking statements
The Chairman’s statement, Group Chief Executive’s statement and summary business review and certain other sections of this Annual Review may contain certain ‘forward-looking statements’ with respect to some of the Group’s plans and its current goals and expectations relating to future financial conditions, performance, results, strategy and objectives.
Statements containing the words ‘believes’, ‘intends’, ‘expects’, ‘plans’, ‘seeks’ and ‘anticipates’ and words of similar meaning are forward-looking. By their nature, all forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to future events and circumstances, which are beyond the Group’s control.
As a result, the Group’s actual future financial condition, performance and results may differ materially from the plan, goals and expectations set forth in the Group’s forward-looking statements.
The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in the Chairman’s statement, Group Chief Executive’s statement and summary business review or any other forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Review.
On behalf of the Board
Malcolm J Wood
Group Company Secretary and General Counsel
22 March 2007
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Summary Directors' Report
Activities and business review
Details of the activities and a review of the business of the Group, including likely future developments, are in the summary business review.
Directors
The following persons served as Directors during the year (all appointments were effective from 30 March 2006, unless indicated otherwise):
- Sir Brian Stewart
- Sandy Crombie
- Kent Atkinson
- Lord Blackwell
- Gerry Grimstone
- John Hylands
- Trevor Matthews
- Alison Mitchell
- David Nish (appointed 1 November 2006)
- Jocelyn Proteau
- Alison Reed (resigned 27 October 2006)
- Keith Skeoch (appointed 25 May 2006)
- Hugh Stevenson
- DW Director 1 Limited (appointed 30 June 2005, resigned 30 March 2006).
With the exception of David Nish and DW Director 1 Limited, all of the above also served as directors of SLAC during the year (Keith Skeoch was appointed on 6 March 2006).
David Newlands resigned from SLAC on 6 March 2006.
John Hylands will step down from the Board of the Company on 31 March 2007.
The following persons have been appointed Directors since 31 December 2006:
- Crawford Gillies (appointed 1 January 2007)
- Baroness McDonagh (appointed 1 March 2007).
Dividend
The Board recommends the payment of a final dividend for 2006 of 5.4p per share payable on 31 May 2007 to shareholders on the register of members on 30 March 2007.
This represents the total ordinary dividend for the year and will amount to an estimated £114m.
For more information on the dividend payment for May 2007 see the AGM guide.
Summary financial statements
The summary financial statements are aimed at providing shareholders with a summary of the position and performance of the Group. They do not contain sufficient information to allow as full an understanding of the results and state of affairs of the Group and of its policies and arrangements concerning Directors’ remuneration as would be provided by the full Annual Report and Accounts.
Shareholders have the right to obtain, free of charge, a copy of the full Annual Report and Accounts, which contains an unqualified audit opinion and is available on this website or from Computershare Investor Services PLC, The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol BS3 9DG.
If you would like to receive a copy in future years, please write to Computershare at the above address.
The summary financial statements were approved by authority of the Board on 22 March 2007 and signed on its behalf by Sir Brian Stewart and David Nish.
Forward-looking statements
The Chairman’s statement, Group Chief Executive’s statement and summary business review and certain other sections of this Annual Review may contain certain ‘forward-looking statements’ with respect to some of the Group’s plans and its current goals and expectations relating to future financial conditions, performance, results, strategy and objectives.
Statements containing the words ‘believes’, ‘intends’, ‘expects’, ‘plans’, ‘seeks’ and ‘anticipates’ and words of similar meaning are forward-looking. By their nature, all forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to future events and circumstances, which are beyond the Group’s control.
As a result, the Group’s actual future financial condition, performance and results may differ materially from the plan, goals and expectations set forth in the Group’s forward-looking statements.
The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in the Chairman’s statement, Group Chief Executive’s statement and summary business review or any other forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Review.
On behalf of the Board
Malcolm J Wood
Group Company Secretary and General Counsel
22 March 2007