Arrangements for the 2023 AGMThis year’s AGM will be in-person. Shareholders can submit questions related to the business of the AGM, in advance in writing or by email.
Further details of how to submit questions in advance of the Meeting are set out below.
If the need arises, we will notify shareholders of any changes to the arrangements for the 2023 AGM as early as is possible before the date of the Meeting. Such updates will be included on our website at www.bakkavor.com and announced via a Regulatory News Service.
Your voteIf you are unable to attend the Meeting in person, the Board recommends that you complete and return your proxy instruction form appointing Simon Burke, as the Chair of the Meeting as your proxy. This will ensure that your vote will be counted. Further details on how to appoint a proxy are provided on page 8 of the Notice of AGM. All proxy instructions must be received by the Company’s Registrar, Equiniti Limited as soon as possible but, in any event, no later than 10.00am on Friday 26 May 2023. Either send or deliver your completed and signed proxy instruction form to Equiniti Limited, Aspect House, Spencer Road, Lancing, West Sussex, BN99 6DA. If you wish, you may register the appointment of a proxy for the AGM electronically, by visiting the Company’s Registrar’s website www.sharevote.co.uk. Alternatively, if you have already registered with the Registrar’s on-line portfolio service, Shareview, you can submit your proxy by logging on to your portfolio at www.shareview.co.uk using your usual ID and password. Once logged in, simply click “view” on the “My Investments” page, click on the link to vote, and then follow the on-screen instructions.
Shareholder engagementThe Board places great importance on understanding the issues of concern to you as shareholders. Shareholders can submit questions related to the business of the AGM in advance of the Meeting in writing or by email. Please submit your question by sending it, together with your name as it appears on the Company’s register of members to the following email address: company.secretariat@bakkavor.com to be received no later than 10.00am on Monday 22 May 2023. We will endeavour to respond to all questions received and publish these questions and answers on our website by 5.00pm on Wednesday 24 May 2023. For any questions received after the deadline we will endeavour to answer these following the Meeting.
An interim dividend of 2.77p per Ordinary share was paid on 14 October 2022 to shareholders whose names were on the register of members as at 16 September 2022. The Group Board has proposed a final dividend of 4.16 pence per Ordinary share at the Company’s AGM on 31 May 2023. This will result in a total dividend for the financial year 2022 of 6.93 pence per Ordinary share. Subject to shareholder approval, the final dividend declared at the AGM will be paid on 5 June 2023 to shareholders on the register of members as at close of business on 28 April 2023.
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Post: Equiniti Limited, Aspect House, Spencer Road, Lancing, West Sussex, BN99 6DA, United Kingdom
Bakkavor’s registrar is Equiniti
If you have any queries regarding your shareholding, or any of your information needs to be updated, please contact Equiniti using the details below:
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Shareholder helpline: 03456 037 037 - Lines are open Monday - Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm for dealing, and until 6:00pm for enquiries