Notice of GM

RNS Number : 5781D

Wolseley PLC

27 April 2017

 

WOLSELEY PLC
(the "Company")

Publication Announcement: Notice of General Meeting

Further to the Company's announcement on 28 March 2017, the Company announces that a Notice of General Meeting to be held on Tuesday, 23 May 2017 (the "Notice") is being posted to shareholders today. 

The Notice contains the proposal to change of name of the Company to Ferguson plc with effect from 31 July 2017.

The General Meeting will take place at 4pm, Swiss time, on Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at Parkhotel, Industriestrasse 14, CH-6304 Zug, Switzerland with an audio-visual link proposed to be available at the offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, 26-28 Tudor Street, London EC4Y 0BQ, United Kingdom at 3pm, UK time.

In accordance with LR 9.6.1 a copy of the Notice has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.

The document can also be downloaded in pdf format from the Company's website at http://www.wolseley.com/index.asp?pageid=486.

The expected timetable for the General Meeting is set out below:

		2017
Latest time and date for receipt of Forms of Proxy from shareholders		4.00pm on 21 May
General Meeting		4.00pm on 23 May
Effective date of change of name		31 July

References to times in the above timetable are to Swiss time unless otherwise stated. If any of the above times and/or dates change, the revised times and/or dates will be notified to Shareholders by an announcement to a Regulatory Information Service. All definitions used in the Notice have the same meaning when used in this announcement.

Enquiries:

Graham Middlemiss, Group Company Secretary (00 41 41 723 2230)

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