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easyJet plc
Annual report and accounts 2010
Shareholder information
40
Share capital
Details of the movements in authorised and issued share capital
during the year are provided in note 18 to the accounts.
The rights and obligations attaching to the Company’s ordinary
shares are set out in the Articles.
Voting rights and restrictions on transfer
of shares
None of the ordinary shares carry any special rights with regard to
control of the Company. There are no restrictions on transfers of
shares other than:
–Certain restrictions which may from time to time be imposed
by laws or regulations such as those relating to insider dealing;
–Pursuant to the Company’s code for securities transactions
whereby the Directors and designated employees require
approval to deal in the Company’s shares;
– Where a person with an interest in the Company’s shares has
been served with a disclosure notice and has failed to provide the
Company with information concerning interests in those shares;
–Where a proposed transferee of the Company’s shares has failed
to furnish to the Directors a declaration of nationality (together
with such evidence as the Directors may require) as required by
the Company’s Articles of Association; and
–The powers given to the Directors by the Company’s Articles of
Association to limit the ownership of the Company’s shares by
non UK nationals and powers to enforce this limitation including
the right to force a sale of any affected shares.
The Company is not aware of any arrangements between
shareholders that may result in restrictions on the transfer of
securities or voting rights.
Employee share schemes – rights of control
The trustee of the easyJet Share Incentive Plan (the Plan) will, on
receipt of any offer, compromise, arrangement or scheme which
affects ordinary shares held in the Plan, invite participants to direct
the trustee on the exercise of any voting rights attaching to the
ordinary shares held by the trustee on their behalf and/or direct
how the trustee shall act in relation to those ordinary shares. The
trustee shall take no action in respect of ordinary shares for which it
has received no directions or ordinary shares which are unallocated.
Generally, on a poll the trustee shall vote in accordance with
directions given by participants. In the absence of directions or on a
show of hands the trustee shall not vote.
The trustee of the easyJet Employee Share Trust (the Trust), which
is used in connection with the easyJet Long Term Incentive Plan, has
the power to vote or not vote at its discretion in respect of any
shares in the Company held in the Trust.
Substantial interests
In accordance with the Disclosure and Transparency Rules DTR 5,
the Company as at 11 November 2010, has been notified of the
following disclosable interests of 3% or more in its issued ordinary
shares:
%
easyGroup Holdings Limited (holding
vehicle for Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou) 26.2
Polys Holdings Limited (holding vehicle
for Polys Haji-Ioannou) 11.3
Standard Life Investments 6.0
Schroders plc 5.5
Prudential plc 5.1
Sanderson Asset Management 3.1
Financial calendar
Financial year end 30 September 2010
Annual General Meeting 17 February 2011
Announcement of 2011 results
Release of interim results to
31 March 2011 10 May 2011
Preliminary results year to
30 September 2011 15 November 2011
Registered office
Hangar 89
London Luton Airport
Bedfordshire
LU2 9PF
Company registrar
Equiniti Limited
Aspect House
Spencer Road
Lancing
West Sussex
BN99 6DA
Auditors
A resolution to reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors
of the Company will be put to shareholders at the forthcoming
Annual General Meeting.
Company number
3959649