FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Hammerson plc (the "Company")
Annual Report and Notice of Annual General
Meeting
20
March 2024
The Company announces that the
following documents have today been sent or otherwise made
available to shareholders:
- Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31
December 2023 (the "2023 Annual
Report");
- Notice of 2024 Annual General Meeting ("Notice of AGM"); and
- Form of Proxy (South Africa).
The above documents have been
uploaded to the UK National Storage Mechanism and Euronext Dublin
and will shortly be available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
and https://direct.euronext.com/#/oamfiling
(where the 2023 Annual Report will be available in
unedited full text).
The 2023 Annual Report (in both PDF
and structured electronic formats), Notice of AGM and Form of Proxy
(South Africa) are also available on the Company's website
at www.hammerson.com/investors.
The Annual General Meeting (the
"AGM") will be held at 9.00
am (UK Time) on Thursday, 25 April 2024 at Marble Arch House, 66
Seymour Street, London W1H 5BX, United Kingdom. Full details of the
proposed resolutions are set out in the Notice of AGM.
Only persons entered on the UK
Principal register of shareholders or the South Africa Branch
register of the Company at 6.30 pm (UK time) on Tuesday, 23 April
2024 shall be entitled to attend and vote at the AGM. 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 Friday,
19 April 2024 for persons to be included onto the UK Principal
register and Thursday, 18 April 2024 for persons to be entered onto
the South Africa Branch register.
Shareholders are entitled to vote by
way of proxy in advance of the AGM. It is important that
shareholders complete, sign and return a Form of Proxy in
accordance with the instructions printed on it. To be valid, the
Form of Proxy must be lodged with the Company's Registrar by no
later than 9.00 am (UK time) and 10.00 am (SA time) on Tuesday, 23
April 2024. Shareholders on the UK Register can vote online
at www.signalshares.com
or obtain a copy of the UK Form of Proxy from the
Company's UK Registrar, Link Group. Shareholders on the SA Register
can obtain a copy of the Form of Proxy (South Africa) from the SA
Transfer Secretaries, Computershare Investor Services. Further
information can be found in the notes set out in the Notice of
AGM.
The Board continues to recognise the
value in maintaining engagement with the Company's shareholders.
Although shareholders will be able to ask questions at the AGM,
shareholders who wish to put a question to the Board relating to
the business to be conducted at the AGM may wish to email
investorrelations@hammerson.com
to submit their question in advance of the AGM. The
Company will endeavour to respond to questions submitted by 9.00 am
(UK time) / 10.00 am (South Africa time) on Friday, 19 April 2024
in advance of the proxy voting deadline on Tuesday, 23 April 2024
at 9.00 am (UK time) / 10.00 am (South Africa time). Where
questions are received after 9.00 am (UK time) / 10.00 am (South
Africa time) on Friday, 19 April 2024, the Company will respond as
soon as practicable, which may be after the AGM. The Company
reserves the right to consolidate questions of a similar
nature.
The content of this announcement
should be read in conjunction with the Company's preliminary
results announcement for the year ended 31 December 2023, which was
released on 29 February 2024 and is available on the Company's
website at:
www.hammerson.com/investors/reports-results-presentations
Together, these announcements
constitute the material required by DTR 6.3.5 to be communicated in
unedited full text through a Regulatory Information Service. This
material is not a substitute for reading the full 2023 Annual
Report.
The Company expects to publish its
2023 ESG Report during March 2024 on the corporate
website.
Alex Dunn
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.