Annual Financial Report & Trading update

RNS Number : 9373N

Trifast PLC

31 July 2014

 

Date: Thursday 31 July 2014

Trifast plc

("Group" "Company" or "TR")

2014 Annual Financial Report

and

Trading update

Ø Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2014

The Group's Annual Report and Financial Statements, Notice of Annual General Meeting, and Proxy Form are being posted to Shareholders.  Copies of the Annual Report and related materials will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism shortly and available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.  The documents will also be uploaded and available to view and download from the Company's website www.trifast.com together with information relating to the voting rights of Shareholders (as required by section 311A of the Companies Act 2006).  Printed copies of the 2014 publication are available on request by writing to, The Company Secretary, Trifast plc, Trifast House, Bellbrook Park, Uckfield TN22 1QW.

The Annual General Meeting is to be held on Thursday 18 September 2014 at 12noon:  the Company will be pleased to welcome shareholders to the Meeting and give them the opportunity of visiting TR's Uckfield operations.

Directors' responsibility statement

The responsibility statement below which has been approved by the Board has been prepared in connection with the Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2014.  Certain parts thereof are not included within this announcement.  The Directors confirm that, to the best of their knowledge that:

·      the Financial statements, prepared in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the EU and applicable law, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the Company and its subsidiaries included in the consolidation taken as a whole

·      the Directors' Report includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the Company and its subsidiaries included in the consolidation taken as a whole, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that the business face, and

·      the Annual Report and Accounts taken as a whole is fair, balanced and understandable and provides the information necessary for shareholders to assess the Company's performance, business model and strategy.

This summary information above is provided in order to comply with DTR 6.3.5 and should be read in conjunction with the Preliminary Announcement released on 17 June 2014.  This is not a substitute for reading the full 2014 Annual Report and Statement of Directors' Responsibilities contained therein.

Ø Trading update

We indicated in our recent Preliminary Results that the Group had entered the current financial year with confidence and enthusiasm.  At the same time, Management stated it is confident that it can continue to deliver another strong performance.  This remains the case with current trading in line with its expectations.  The Board look forward to updating stakeholders further at the Annual General Meeting in September.

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ENQUIRIES: Trifast plc Malcolm Diamond MBE, Executive Chairman Jim Barker, Chief Executive Mark Belton, Group Finance Director Telephone: [phone] Email: corporate [e-mail]	IR, Corporate & Media Relations TooleyStreet Communications Fiona Tooley Mobile: [phone] Telephone: [phone] Email: [e-mail]	Stockbroker to the Company Arden Partners plc Chris Hardie Katelin Kennish Telephone: [phone]
LSE Listing: Ticker: TRI FTSE index sector: FTSE Small Cap and FTSE All-share indices
Trifast's trading business TR Fastenings is a leading international manufacturer and distributor of industrial fastenings to the assembly industries, with operations in Europe, the Americas and Asia. For more information, please visit Group website: www.trifast.com or www.trfastenings.com: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/tr-fastenings: Facebook: www.facebook.com/trfastenings: Twitter: www.twitter.com/trfastenings

 

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