13 December 2024
Smiths News PLC
("Smiths News")
Publication of Annual Financial Report
and
Notice of AGM
Smiths News (LSE: SNWS), the leading distributor of newspapers, magazines and ancillary services to retailers across the UK, announces that it has today published its Annual Report and Accounts 2024. In addition, the Company announces that its Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM") has been sent to shareholders.
Smiths News' Annual General Meeting will be held at 11.30am on 16 January 2025 at DoubleTree by Hilton, Lydiard Fields, Great Western Way, Swindon SN5 8U. The voting results of all resolutions put before the AGM will be announced shortly afterwards and published on the Company's website.
Smiths News has submitted copies of the following documents to the National Storage Mechanism:
1. Annual Report and Accounts 2023
2. Notice of Annual General Meeting
3. Proxy Form
These documents will be available for inspection at National Storage Mechanism | FCA within two business days.
The Annual Report and Accounts 2024 and the Notice of Annual General Meeting are also available to view at www.smithsnews.co.uk
All of the information required by DTR 6.3.5 to be communicated to the media in unedited full text through a Regulatory Information Service is contained in the Company's preliminary results announcement published on 5 November 2024, which can be found at www.smithsnews.co.uk
For further information, please contact:
Smiths News PLC Jonathan Bunting, Chief Executive Officer Paul Baker, Chief Financial Officer
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via Vigo Consulting |
Vigo Consulting Jeremy Garcia / Fiona Hetherington / Verity Snow smithsnews@vigoconsulting.com
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Tel: +44 (0) 20 7390 0230 |
About Smiths News
For over 200 years, Smiths News has been delivering newspapers to retailers across the UK. It distributes newspapers and magazines on behalf of the major national and regional publishers, delivering to approximately 22,400 customers across England and Wales on a daily basis. The speed of turnaround and the density of Smiths News' coverage is critical to one of the world's fastest physical supply chains.
For more information, please visit: www.smithsnews.co.uk
Person responsible for arranging release of this announcement:
Stuart Marriner, General Counsel & Company Secretary
Smiths News plc, Rowan House, Cherry Orchard North, Kembrey Park, Swindon SN2 8UH
Email: cosec@smithsnews.co.uk