Beazley plc
Dublin, 28 February 2012
Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of Annual General Meeting
The Company confirms that it has today posted to shareholders its Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2011, together with a notice of the Annual General Meeting, which will be held at 12 noon on 27 March 2012 at 2 Northwood Avenue, Santry Demesne, Santry, Dublin 9, Ireland.
Copies of the notice of the Annual General Meeting, Annual Report and Accounts 2011 and Form of Proxy have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.
The notice of Annual General Meeting and Annual Report and Accounts 2011 can also be viewed on the Company's website at www.beazley.com.
In its announcement of the 7 February 2012 the Company indicated that it would pay a second interim dividend of 5.4 pence which would be payable on 30 March 2012 to its shareholders entered on the register of members at 5.00 pm on 2 March 2012, (save to the extent that shareholders on the register of members on 2 March 2012 are to be paid a dividend by a subsidiary of the Company (being Beazley DAS Limited) resident for tax purposes in the United Kingdom).
For further information, please contact:
Beazley plc
Sian Coope
+353 (0)1 854 4700
Note to editors:
Beazley plc (BEZ.L), is the parent company of specialist insurance businesses with operations in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia. Beazley manages five Lloyd's syndicates and, in 2011, underwrote gross premiums worldwide of $1,712.5 million. All Lloyd's syndicates are rated A by A.M. Best.
Beazley's underwriters in the United States focus on writing a range of specialist insurance products. In the admitted market, coverage is provided by Beazley Insurance Company, Inc., an A.M. Best A rated carrier licensed in all 50 states. In the surplus lines market, coverage is provided by the Beazley syndicates at Lloyd's.
Beazley is a market leader in many of its chosen lines, which include professional indemnity, property, marine, reinsurance, accident and life, and political risks and contingency business.
For more information please go to: www.beazley.com