Annual and Sustainability Reports, Notice of AGM

RNS Number : 8464A

Polymetal International PLC

29 March 2017

 

Release time	IMMEDIATE
Date	29 March 2017

Polymetal International plc

Annual Report 2016, Sustainability Report 2016 and Notice of 2017 AGM

Polymetal International plc (LSE, MOEX: POLY, ADR: AUCOY) (together with its subsidiaries - "Polymetal", the "Company", or the "Group") publishes its Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2016 and Sustainability Report for the year ended 31 December 2016, and announces that its Annual General Meeting will be held at etc. venues Monument, 8 Eastcheap, London, EC3M 1AE, UK on Tuesday 16 May 2017 at 10.30 am (BST).

In connection with this, the following documents have been made available to shareholders on 29 March 2017:

-     Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016 ("Annual Report");

-     Notice of Annual General Meeting ("Notice");

-     Proxy Form; and

-     Notice of Availability - Annual Report.

Copies of the Notice, the Proxy Form and the Annual Report have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be shortly available at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

The Disclosure and Transparency Rules (DTR) require that any information in the Annual Report which is of a type that would be required to be disseminated in a half-yearly financial report should be announced in full. Such information has been published by the Company in its preliminary results release on 15 March 2017, and is available on the Company's website at http://www.polymetalinternational.com/investors-and-media/news/2017/2017-03-15.aspx?sc_lang=en.

Copies of all the above documents are also available on the Company's website at http://www.polymetalinternational.com/investors-and-media/share-information/agm/2017.aspx?sc_lang=en.

The Sustainability Report "Sustainable Business. Sustainable Future" for the year ended 31 December 2016 has been also posted on the Company's website today and is now available at http://www.polymetalinternational.com/sustainable-development/sustainability-reports.aspx?sc_lang=en. It details our efforts to deliver value to our stakeholders by embedding sustainability into our operations, describes our achievements and notes areas for improvement. We are pleased to announce that the qualitative and quantitative data disclosed in the report is prepared in accordance with the Core option of Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI's) G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. PricewaterhouseCoopers performed independent limited assurance of the information disclosed in the Report.

Enquiries

Media		Investor Relations
FTI Consulting Leonid Fink Jenny Payne	[phone]	Polymetal Maxim Nazimok Evgenia Onuschenko Maryana Nesis	[e-mail] [phone] (Russia) [phone] (UK)
Joint Corporate Brokers
Morgan Stanley Sam McLennan Richard Brown Panmure Gordon Adam James Tom Salvesen	[phone] [phone]	RBC Europe Limited Tristan Lovegrove Marcus Jackson	[phone]

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

THIS RELEASE MAY INCLUDE STATEMENTS THAT ARE, OR MAY BE DEEMED TO BE, "FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS". THESE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS SPEAK ONLY AS AT THE DATE OF THIS RELEASE. THESE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS CAN BE IDENTIFIED BY THE USE OF FORWARD-LOOKING TERMINOLOGY, INCLUDING THE WORDS "TARGETS", "BELIEVES", "EXPECTS", "AIMS", "INTENDS", "WILL", "MAY", "ANTICIPATES", "WOULD", "COULD" OR "SHOULD" OR SIMILAR EXPRESSIONS OR, IN EACH CASE THEIR NEGATIVE OR OTHER VARIATIONS OR BY DISCUSSION OF STRATEGIES, PLANS, OBJECTIVES, GOALS, FUTURE EVENTS OR INTENTIONS. THESE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS ALL INCLUDE MATTERS THAT ARE NOT HISTORICAL FACTS. BY THEIR NATURE, SUCH FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS INVOLVE KNOWN AND UNKNOWN RISKS, UNCERTAINTIES AND OTHER IMPORTANT FACTORS BEYOND THE COMPANY'S CONTROL THAT COULD CAUSE THE ACTUAL RESULTS, PERFORMANCE OR ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE COMPANY TO BE MATERIALLY DIFFERENT FROM FUTURE RESULTS, PERFORMANCE OR ACHIEVEMENTS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED BY SUCH FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS. SUCH FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS ARE BASED ON NUMEROUS ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING THE COMPANY'S PRESENT AND FUTURE BUSINESS STRATEGIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THE COMPANY WILL OPERATE IN THE FUTURE. FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS ARE NOT GUARANTEES OF FUTURE PERFORMANCE. THERE ARE MANY FACTORS THAT COULD CAUSE THE COMPANY'S ACTUAL RESULTS, PERFORMANCE OR ACHIEVEMENTS TO DIFFER MATERIALLY FROM THOSE EXPRESSED IN SUCH FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS. THE COMPANY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY OBLIGATION OR UNDERTAKING TO DISSEMINATE ANY UPDATES OR REVISIONS TO ANY FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS CONTAINED HEREIN TO REFLECT ANY CHANGE IN THE COMPANY'S EXPECTATIONS WITH REGARD THERETO OR ANY CHANGE IN EVENTS, CONDITIONS OR CIRCUMSTANCES ON WHICH ANY SUCH STATEMENTS ARE BASED

 

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