Shareholder Information
Ordinary shareholders
There were 41,243 holders of ordinary shares at 3 March
2007 and their holdings can be analysed as follows:
| |
Number of
shareholders |
|
Percentage
of total number
of shareholders |
|
Number of
ordinary shares
000 |
|
Percentage of
ordinary shares |
| Over 1,000,000 |
157 |
|
0.38 |
|
670,447,914 |
|
76.41 |
| 100,001 – 1,000,000 |
386 |
|
0.94 |
|
129,673,635 |
|
14.78 |
| 10,001 – 100,000 |
969 |
|
2.35 |
|
28,868,787 |
|
3.29 |
| 5,001 – 10,000 |
1,341 |
|
3.25 |
|
9,080,946 |
|
1.04 |
| 2,000 – 5,000 |
5,339 |
|
12.94 |
|
16,169,677 |
|
1.84 |
| 1 – 2,000 |
33,051 |
|
80.14 |
|
23,204,042 |
|
2.64 |
| |
41,243 |
|
100.00 |
|
877,445,001 |
|
100.00 |
Shareholders are further analysed as follows:
| |
Number of
shareholders |
|
Percentage
of total number
of shareholders |
|
Number of
ordinary shares
000 |
|
Percentage of
ordinary shares |
| Corporate |
7,284 |
|
17.66 |
|
825,301,500 |
|
94.06 |
| Individuals |
33,959 |
|
82.34 |
|
52,143,501 |
|
5.94 |
| |
41,243 |
|
100.00 |
|
877,445,001 |
|
100.00 |
Employee shareholdings under the Group’s share schemes are
held in trust and are not therefore reflected in the number of individual
shareholders.
The Company shall disclose the total number of voting rights and
capital of each class of shares which it issues at the end of each
month where there has been a change.
Registrar
Enquiries concerning holdings of the Company’s shares and
notification of the holder’s change of address should be referred
to Lloyds TSB Registrars, The Causeway,Worthing,West Sussex BN99
6DA (telephone: 0845 603 9903). A text phone facility for those
with hearing difficulties is available by telephoning 0870 600 3950.
Electronic communications
Shareholders can arrange to receive future Home Retail Group reports
and communications electronically, receive notifications of communications
by email and submit voting instructions online at shareholder meetings
by registering at www.shareview.co.uk.This
service is provided by Lloyds TSB Registrars and gives access to
a comprehensive range of shareholder information, including dividend
payment details.
Home Retail Group website
A full range of investor relations information on Home Retail Group
is available at www.homeretailgroup.com.
This includes webcasts of results presentations given to analysts
and investors together with the slides accompanying those presentations.
Dividend reinvestment plan
The Home Retail Group dividend reinvestment plan (“DRIP”)
enables shareholders to use their cash dividends to purchase Home
Retail Group shares. Shareholders who wish to participate in the
DRIP for the first time, in respect of the final dividend to be
paid on 25 July 2007, should return a completed and signed DRIP
mandate form to be received by the Registrar, by no later than 4
July 2007. For further details please contact Lloyds TSB Registrars,
The Causeway,West Sussex, BN99 6DA (telephone: 0870 241 3018).
Share price information
The latest Home Retail Group share price is available on the Home
Retail Group website (www.homeretailgroup.com)
and also on the Financial Times Cityline Service (telephone: 0906
843 2740 – calls charged at 60p per minute).
Share dealing facility
Existing or potential investors can buy or sell Home Retail Group
shares using the Internet or postal dealing service provided by
Lloyds TSB Registrars by logging onto www.shareview.co.uk
or by calling 0870 850 0852 between 8.30am and 4.30pm weekdays.
Financial calendar and Annual General Meeting arrangements
| Final dividend ex-dividend date |
23 May 2007 |
| Final dividend record date |
25 May 2007 |
| First quarter trading update |
14 June 2007 |
| Annual General Meeting |
3 July 2007 |
| Final dividend to be paid |
25 July 2007 |
The Annual General Meeting will be held at the London Marriott
Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London W1K 6JP and begins at 11.30am on
Tuesday 3 July 2007.
Registered office
Home Retail Group plc, Avebury, 489-499 Avebury Boulevard, Milton
Keynes MK9 2NW. Registered in London No. 5863533.
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