Notice of AGM and Annual Report

RNS Number : 7987M

Berkeley Group Holdings (The) PLC

01 August 2017

 

1 August 2017

The Berkeley Group Holdings plc

Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of Annual General Meeting

The Berkeley Group Holdings plc ("Berkeley" or the "Company") announces that the following documents have today been posted or otherwise made available to shareholders:

1.       2017 Annual Report and Accounts (the "2017 Annual Report");

2.       2017 Notice of Annual General Meeting (the "2017 AGM Notice"); and

3.       Form of Proxy for the 2017 Annual General Meeting.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.1, a copy of each of the above documents has been uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

The 2017 Annual Report and the 2017 AGM Notice are also available on the Company's website at www.berkeleygroup.co.uk/investor-information/corporate-governance and in hard copy upon request to the Company Secretary, The Berkeley Group Holdings plc, Berkeley House, 19 Portsmouth Road, Cobham, Surrey KT11 1JG.

The Company's Annual General Meeting will be held on 6 September 2017 at 11:00am at the Woodlands Park Hotel, Woodlands Lane, Stoke D'Abernon, Cobham, Surrey KT11 3QB.

The Company released its preliminary announcement of annual results for the year ended 30 April 2017 ("Final Results Announcement") on 21 June 2017.  This information together with the information in the appendix to this announcement, which has been extracted from the 2017 Annual Report constitutes the materials required for the purposes of compliance with Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rule 6.3.5(2)(b) to be communicated to media in unedited full text through a Regulatory Information Service. 

This announcement should be read in conjunction with and is not a substitute for reading the full 2017 Annual Report; page references in the appendix refer to page references in the 2017 Annual Report.

Gemma Parsons

Company Secretary

The Berkeley Group Holdings plc

Tel: [phone]

LEI:      2138009OQSSLVVHQAL78

Media Enquiries:

Tim Robertson

Novella Communications

Tel: [phone]

Appendix

Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

The following responsibility statement is repeated here solely for the purpose of complying with DGTR 6.3.5.  This statement relates to and is extracted from page 110 of the 2017 Annual Report and Accounts.  Responsibility is for the full 2017 Annual Report and Accounts and not the extracted information presented in this announcement and the Final Results Announcement.

Statement of Directors' responsibilities in respect of the Annual Report and the Financial Statements

The Directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report, the Directors' Remuneration Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the Directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the Directors have prepared the Group Financial Statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) as adopted by the European Union, and have prepared the Parent Company Financial Statements in accordance with United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) and applicable law.

Under company law the Directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group and the Company and of the profit or loss of the Group for that period.

In preparing these financial statements, the Directors are required to:

-        select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;

-        make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

-        state whether IFRS as adopted by the European Union and applicable UK accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the Group and Parent Company Financial Statements respectively; and

-        prepare financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Group will continue in business.

The Directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the Company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Company and the Group and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements and the Directors' Remuneration Report comply with the Companies Act 2006 and, as regards the Group financial statements, Article 4 of the IAS Regulation. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and the Group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the Company's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Directors' responsibility statement

Each of the Directors, whose names and functions are listed on pages 78 to 81 confirm that, to the best of each person's knowledge:

a.       the Group financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with IFRS's as adopted by the European Union, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of the Group;

b.       the Strategic Report, together with the Directors' report, includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the Group, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that it faces, including those that would threaten its business model, future performance, solvency or liquidity; and

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

 

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