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Notice of meeting
Electronic communicationsThe Company is currently authorised to send shareholder nformation, including Annual Reports, Notices of General Meetings and Forms of Proxy to you electronically, provided only that you agree to receive them in this format.
This has a number of advantages, including:
- Speedier delivery of documents;
- Cost savings on the delivery of documents;
- Saving on environmental resources;
- Confirmation of receipt of proxy appointments.
To receive your shareholder documentation electronically, you need to register with our Registrars’ online service, www.shareview.co.uk. This is a secure service enabling shareholders to set up and view personal shareholding details. When you register please have your shareholder reference number to hand (this can be found on your share certificate or your proxy form).
To encourage more shareholders to convert to ecommunications, if you make the choice to receive all future communications electronically, we will arrange for a sapling tree to be planted in the UK to be dedicated to you.
This offer and the provision of a facility to communicate with shareholders electronically, does not discriminate between registered shareholders of the same class. The facility is available to all registered shareholders on equal terms and participation is made as simple as possible. Please note that it is the shareholder’s responsibility to notify our Registrars through www.shareview.co.uk of any change to their email address.
In the future, subject to the approval of the amendments to the Articles of Association pursuant to Resolution 14, the Company will be able to communicate with shareholders who have consented, or who have deemed to have consented, to receive documents electronically, by placing shareholder documentation on a website and notifying them in writing that such documents are available. The Company would, however, write to all shareholders before doing so to give you an opportunity to exercise your choice as to whether you wish to continue to receive documents in hard copy form or via the Company’s website.
The next opportunity for us to notify you electronically will be for the Interim Report for 2008, which will be published in Spring 2008. If you have registered, an email will be sent in March/April 2008 notifying you that the report has been published and this will include a link to the relevant page on our website. A similar procedure will be followed for future shareholder documentation. There are no particular software requirements to view these documents, other than those described and available on our website www.wolseley.com.
Before electing for electronic communication, shareholders should ensure that they have the appropriate computer capabilities. The Company takes all reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in any communication it sends out, but cannot accept any responsibility for loss or damage arising from the opening or use of any email or attachments from the Company and recommends that shareholders subject all messages to virus checking procedures prior to use. Please note that any electronic communication sent by a shareholder to the Company or the Registrar containing a computer virus will not be accepted.
The Company’s obligation is satisfied when it transmits an electronic message. It cannot be held responsible for a failure in transmission beyond its control. In the event that the Company becomes aware that an electronic transmission is not successfully transmitted, a paper notification will be sent to the shareholder at their registered address. The Company also reserves the right, irrespective of your election, to revert to sending paper documentation by post, whenever the Board considers it necessary or desirable to do so.
EnquiriesEquiniti (formerly Lloyds TSB Registrars) maintain the Company’s share register. They also provide a telephone helpline service. If you have any enquiries about the Annual General Meeting or about your Wolseley plc shareholding, you may contact Equiniti:
| by telephone to the Shareholder helpline: | ||
| from the UK | – | 0870 241 3934 |
| from outside the UK | – | +44 121 415 7047 |
| in writing to | – | Equiniti (0049) |
| Aspect House | ||
| Spencer Road | ||
| Lancing | ||
| West Sussex | ||
| BN99 6BN | ||
| website | – | www.equiniti.com |
The Bank of New York Mellon maintains the Company’s American Depositary Receipt register. They also provide a telephone helpline service. If you have any enquiries about your holding of Wolseley American Depositary Shares, you may contact the Bank of New York Mellon:
| by telephone to the Shareholder helpline: | ||
| within the US | – | 1-888-BNY-ADRS (toll-free) |
| from outside the US | – | +1 212 815 3700 |
| in writing to | – | Bank of New York Mellon |
| Investor Relations | ||
| PO Box 11258 Church Street Station | ||
| New York, NY 10286-1258 | ||
| website | – | https://www.stockbny.com |
Data protection statementYour personal data includes all data provided by you, or on your behalf, which relates to you as a shareholder, including your name and contact details, the votes you cast and your Reference Number (attributed to you by the Company). The Company determines the purposes for which and the manner in which your personal data is to be processed. The Company and any third party to which it discloses the data (including the Company’s Registrars) may process your personal data for the purposes of compiling and updating the Company’s records, fulfilling its legal obligations and processing the shareholder rights you exercise.
Published informationThe Notice of Annual General Meeting is also available in Braille or in an audio version on CD, depending on your requirements.