AGM Information • Aug 3, 2022
AGM Information
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This document is important. If you are in any doubt about what action you should take, you are recommended to consult your financial adviser. If you have sold or transferred all your shares, you should send this document and the Form of Proxy to the purchaser or to the stockbroker or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected, for transmission to the purchaser or transferee.
LEI 213800WFIVE6RUK3CR22 Registered number: 01919797 Registered office: Trifast House Bellbrook Park Uckfield East Sussex TN22 1QW
3 August 2022

Dear shareholder
This letter explains the business to be conducted at this year's Annual General Meeting ("AGM"), which is to be held at Trifast House, Bellbrook Park, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 1QW on 7 September 2022 at 12 noon.
Any shareholders who are unable to physically attend the AGM will be able to follow the proceedings online via the Investor Meet Company platform.
Shareholders that wish to view the AGM remotely should register for the event in advance via the following link: https://www.investormeetcompany.com/trifast-plc/register-investor.
Please note that shareholders will not be able to vote online at the AGM via the platform and are therefore requested to submit their votes via proxy as early as possible and not later than 12 noon on the day that is two working days prior to the Meeting. Shareholders are invited to submit any questions for the Board to consider. Questions can be pre submitted ahead of the AGM via the Investor Meet Company Platform up until 9am the day before the AGM or submitted at any time during the AGM itself.
Shareholders may also send any questions about the business of the AGM to the Company Secretary by email at [email protected].
The Company will continue to monitor public health guidance and legislation issued by the UK Government in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic. Should it become appropriate to revise the current arrangements for the AGM, any such changes will be notified to shareholders through the Company's website at www.trifast.com. We ask you to check the latest Government guidelines and the Company's website before travelling to the AGM.
Explanatory notes to the business of the AGM
The Directors must present their Annual Report and Financial Statements to the Meeting. This gives shareholders the opportunity to ask questions on the content before voting on the resolution.
To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 March 2022.
The Board is recommending a final dividend of 1.40 pence per ordinary share to be paid on 14 October 2022 to shareholders on the Register of Members at the close of business on 16 September 2022.
In accordance with the Corporate Governance Code, all Directors are subject to annual re-election. Accordingly, Jonathan Shearman, Mark Belton, Clare Foster, Clive Watson, Scott Mac Meekin and Claire Balmforth are offering themselves for re-election.
Biographical details for all Directors can be found in the Annual Report on pages 92 and 93, or online at www.trifast.com.
The Company is required to appoint Auditors at each General Meeting at which its Annual Report and Accounts are presented to shareholders. Therefore, resolution 10 proposes the reappointment of BDO as Auditors (to hold office until the next such meeting), and, in accordance with normal practice, resolution 11 authorises the Directors to determine the Auditors' remuneration.
At the Company's last AGM, shareholders authorised the Directors, under section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 and the Company's Articles of Association, to allot ordinary shares and grant other share rights without the prior consent of shareholders. It is proposed by ordinary resolution to seek renewal of this authority and to so authorise the Directors for the period until the AGM in 2023 or, if sooner, 7 December 2023. The £2,245,731 nominal amount of the ordinary shares to which this authority relates (referred to as the section 551 Amount) represents approximately 33% of the nominal amount of issued share capital of the Company as at the date hereof.
At the Company's last AGM, the Directors were empowered to allot ordinary shares for cash without first being required to offer such shares to existing shareholders pursuant to section 561 of the Companies Act 2006 and the Company's Articles of Association. It is proposed by special resolution that this authority also be renewed for the same period as the authority under Resolution 12. The £340,262 nominal amount of ordinary shares to which limb (b) of this authority relates represents approximately 5% of the issued share capital of the Company as at the date hereof.
In addition to the authority for disapplication of pre-emption rights set out at Resolution 13 above, in accordance with the guidance of the Pre-Emption Group, the Directors seek renewal of an additional authority to allot ordinary shares for cash without first being required to offer such shares to existing shareholders pursuant to section 561 of the Companies Act 2006 and the Company's Articles of Association for a further £340,262 nominal amount of ordinary shares representing approximately 5% of the issued share capital of the Company as at the date hereof. This allotment authority is only to be used for an acquisition or other capital investment of a kind contemplated by the Pre-Emption Group. It is proposed by special resolution that this authority be given for the same period as the authority under Resolution 12.
This special resolution seeks renewal of the authority for the Company to make market purchases of its own shares. If passed, the resolution gives authority for the Company to purchase up to 13,610,494 ordinary shares, representing approximately 10% of the Company's issued share capital (excluding treasury shares) as at the date hereof.
The resolution specifies the minimum and maximum prices which may be paid for any shares purchased under this authority. The authority will expire at the AGM in 2023 or, if sooner, 7 December 2023.
The Directors only intend to exercise the authority to purchase shares where they consider that such purchases will be in the best interests of shareholders generally and will result in an increase in earnings per share.
The Company may either cancel any shares it purchases under this authority or transfer them into treasury (and subsequently sell or transfer them out of treasury or cancel them).
The Companies Act 2006 allows shareholders to approve by special resolution a shorter notice period than 21 clear days to apply to general meetings, which cannot however be less than 14 clear days. Annual General Meetings will continue to be held on at least 21 clear days' notice.
In order to enable Directors to be able to utilise this ability, Resolution 16 seeks the renewal of such approval. The approval will be effective until the Company's next AGM, when it is intended that a similar resolution will be proposed.
You will find enclosed the Form of Proxy for use at the AGM. You are asked to complete and return it to the Company's Registrar as soon as possible, and in any event, not later than 12 noon on the day that is two working days prior to the Meeting.
The return of the Form of Proxy will not prevent you from attending the AGM and voting in person should you wish.
The Directors believe that the proposals set out in the Notice of Meeting are in the best interests of the shareholders as a whole. Accordingly, they unanimously recommend that you vote in favour of these resolutions, as they intend to do in respect of their own beneficial shareholdings.
Yours sincerely
Chair
Notice of Meeting
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Trifast plc will be held at Trifast House, Bellbrook Park, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 1QW on 7 September 2022 at 12 noon for the following purposes:
As special business, to consider and, if thought fit, pass the following resolutions (Resolution 12 is proposed as an ordinary resolution and Resolutions 13, 14, 15 and 16 as special resolutions):
(b) otherwise than in connection with a rights issue, with a section 561 Amount of £340,262.
THAT in addition to the authority granted under Resolution 13, the authority and power conferred on the Directors by the Company's Articles of Association to allot equity securities or to sell treasury shares wholly for cash be further renewed for the period ending on the date of the Annual General Meeting in 2023 or 7 December 2023, whichever is the earlier, with an additional section 561 amount of £340,262 to be used only for the purposes of financing (or refinancing if the authority is to be used within six months after the original transaction) a transaction which the Directors determine to be an acquisition or other capital investment pursuant to the Statement of Principles on Disapplying Pre-Emption Rights published by the Pre-Emption Group.
THAT a general meeting other than an Annual General Meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.
A member entitled to attend and vote is entitled to appoint a proxy or proxies to attend, speak and vote on his/her behalf at the Meeting. If more than one proxy is appointed each proxy must be appointed in respect of different shares held by that member. A proxy need not be a member of the Company.
By order of the Board,
Company Secretary 3 August 2022
Registered office: Trifast House Bellbrook Park Uckfield East Sussex TN22 1QW
As an alternative to completing the hard copy proxy form, shareholders can vote and appoint a proxy electronically by going to the following website www.investorcentre.co.uk/eproxy. You will be asked to enter the Control Number, the Shareholder Reference Number (SRN) and Pin as provided on your proxy card and agree to certain terms and conditions.
For either format of proxy to be valid, it must be received no later than 12 noon on the day that is two working days prior to the Meeting. Further details relating to the appointment of proxies are included in the proxy form.
In order for a proxy appointment or instruction made using the CREST service to be valid, the appropriate CREST message (a CREST Proxy Instruction) must be properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear's specifications and must contain the information required for such instructions, as described in the CREST Manual. All messages relating to the appointment of a proxy or an instruction to a previously appointed proxy must be transmitted so as to be received by the Company's agent (ID. 3RA50) no later than 12 noon on the day that is two working days prior to the Meeting. It is the responsibility of the CREST member concerned to take such action as shall be necessary to ensure that a message is transmitted by means of the CREST system by any particular time. In this connection, CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting service providers are referred, in particular, to those sections of the CREST Manual concerning practical limitations of the CREST system and timings. The Company may treat a CREST Proxy Instruction as invalid in the circumstances set out in Regulation 35(5)(a) of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001.

Trifast House, Bellbrook Park, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 1QW
Tel: +44 (0)1825 747366 Fax: +44 (0)1825 747368
www.trifast.com
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