05 August 2015
ANNUAL REPORT & NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Dixons Carphone plc (the "Company"), has today published its 2014/15 Annual Report & Accounts and Notice of Annual General Meeting 2015. These documents are available to view on the Company's website at www.dixonscarphone.com/investors. In addition, along with the Form of Proxy for the Annual General Meeting 2015, they have also been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
The Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 11.00am on Thursday 10 September 2015 at the Hilton London Kensington Hotel, 179-199 Holland Park Avenue, London, W11 4UL.
Additional information, required to be made available by the Company under Rule 6.3.5R of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules of the Financial Conduct Authority, was included in the Company's Preliminary Announcement of Results released on 16 July 2015 which is available on the Company's website (http://www.dixonscarphone.com/media-centre/press-releases/preliminary-results-2014-15). We have however set out in full below the Directors' Responsibility statement in which all page references refer to the Annual Report and Accounts 2014/15.
Responsibility Statement (p.75)
Each of the directors, whose name and functions are listed on pages 36-37, confirm to the best of their knowledge:
• the financial statements, prepared in accordance with the relevant financial reporting framework, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the Company and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole;
• the Strategic Report includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the Company and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that they face; and
• the annual report and financial statements, taken as a whole, are fair, balanced and understandable and provide the information necessary for shareholders to assess the Group and the Company's performance, business model and strategy.
At 16 July 2015, the directors are those listed in the Group's 2013/14 Annual Report and Accounts with the exception of the following appointments and resignations which all occurred upon the Merger on 6 August 2014, apart from John Allan's resignation which occurred on 17 February 2015:
Appointments |
Resignations |
Sebastian James Humphrey Singer Katie Bickerstaffe Graham Stapleton John Allan Jock Lennox Tim How Andrea Gisle Joosen |
Nigel Langstaff John Allwood John Allan
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ENDS
For further information:
Nigel Paterson Company Secretary & General Counsel +44 (0)203 110 4411
Kate Ferry IR, PR and Corporate Affairs Director +44 (0)7748 933 206
Hannah Collyer Head of Media Relations +44 (0)1727 203 041