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Notice of EGM
Notice of EGM.
About this update from Premier Foods Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n Premier Foods plc\n23 November 2007\n\n Premier Foods plc\n\n Premier Foods plc ('Premier' or the 'Company')\n\n\n\nThe Company will today issue a Circular to Shareholders convening an\nExtraordinary General Meeting ('EGM') to address a technical issue that has\narisen in respect of the second interim and final dividends for the year ended\n31 December 2006 (the 'Dividends').\n\nAlthough the group of companies, of which the Company is the holding company\n(the 'Group'), had sufficient distributable reserves at the time that the\nDividends were paid, these distributable reserves had not been distributed from\nthe other companies within the Group and passed up to the Company at the date of\nthe last annual accounts of the Company, which serve as the reference accounts\nfor the calculation of the distributable reserves of the Company.\n\nReserves have now been distributed to the Company by its subsidiaries and\ninterim accounts for the period to 29 September 2007 have been prepared and\nfiled with the Registrar of Companies. A resolution will therefore be proposed\nat the EGM to sanction the appropriation of profits to the Dividends, to waive\nany rights of the Company against shareholders who received the Dividends and\nagainst both past and present Directors who approved the payment of the\nDividends and to approve the Company entering into a deed of release in favour\nof such shareholders and Directors.\n\nCopies of the Circular have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will\nshortly be available for inspection by the public during normal business hours\non any weekday (public holidays excepted) at the UK Listing Authority's Document\nViewing Facility, which is situated at The Financial Services Authority, 25 The\nNorth Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HS.\n\n\n\nEnquiries:\n\nPremier Foods plc Tel: 01727 815850\n\nPaul Thomas Finance Director\nGwyn Tyley Director of Investor Relations\n\nCitigate Dewe Rogerson Tel: 020 7638 9571\n\nMichael Berkeley\nJustin Griffiths\nNicola Smith\n\n\n\n\n This information is provided by RNS\n The company news service from the London Stock Exchange \n ","length":2313,"tagName":"div"}]