Annual Report, Notice of AGM & Scrip Circular
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Hammerson plc (the "Company")
Annual Report, Notice of Annual General Meeting and publication of circular
29 March 2021
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 2020 (the "2020 Annual Report");
- Notice of 2021 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 National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism . The documents have also been submitted to Euronext Dublin.
The 2020 Annual Report, Notice of 2021 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 announcement released on Friday, 12 March 2021 by the Company regarding the audited results for the year ended 31 December 2020 includes the information required by DTR 6.3.5 and Regulation 33(5)(b)(ii) of the Irish Transparency Regulations 2007 (as amended) to be communicated to the media in unedited full text through a Regulated Information Service.
The 2021 Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") will be held at 8.30 am (BST) on Tuesday, 4 May 2021 at Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GE. Only persons entered on the UK Principal register of shareholders of the Company at 6.30 pm on Thursday, 29 April 2021 shall be entitled to attend and vote at the Meeting. For shareholders on the South Africa Branch register, the record date for the purpose of determining which shareholders are entitled to participate in and vote at the Meeting is Friday, 23 April 2021. 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 Tuesday, 27 April 2021 for persons to be included onto the UK Principal register and Tuesday, 20 April 2021 for persons to be entered onto the South Africa Branch register.
Given the prevailing UK Government regulations and guidance in relation to Covid-19 as at the date of the printing of the Notice of 2021 Annual General Meeting, it is highly likely that shareholder attendance at the Meeting will either be unlawful or significantly curtailed. As a result, the Company is proposing that the Meeting be convened with the minimum quorum of shareholders present (which will be facilitated by the Company) in order to conduct the business of the Meeting.
Even if attendance is permitted under the prevailing regulations and guidance at the time, the health and safety of our shareholders and colleagues is vitally important to us and so we are strongly encouraging shareholders not to attend the Meeting and instead to vote by proxy on the resolutions set out in the Notice of 2021 Annual General Meeting as early as possible.
In these exceptional circumstances, the Board continues to recognise the value in maintaining engagement with the Company's shareholders. In order to facilitate this, a shareholder engagement session is being held electronically on Wednesday, 14 April 2021 at 2.00 pm (BST).
Whilst shareholders will be able to ask questions at the event itself, shareholders are encouraged to submit any questions in advance by email to investorrelations@hammerson.com to enable the Board to answer questions more fully and efficiently.
Details of how shareholders can register and attend the engagement session are included in the Notice of 2021 Annual General Meeting.
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.
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