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Please find page 97 of the 2013 Experian annual report below. You can navigate through the pages in the report by either clicking on the pages listed below, or by using the keyword search tool below to find specific information within the annual report.Annual general meeting
The 2013 annual general meeting of the
Company will be held at The Merrion
Hotel, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin 2,
Ireland at 9.30am on Wednesday 17 July
2013. Shareholders who are unable
to attend in person may submit
questions beforehand via email to
agmquestions@experianplc.com
or on the prepaid card sent to
shareholders with the notice of meeting.
The questions will be addressed at the
meeting, via the Company’s website at
www.experianplc.com or individually as
appropriate. The notice of meeting has
been circulated to shareholders and can
also be viewed on the Company’s website.
Independent auditors
The auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,
have indicated their willingness to
continue in office and a resolution that
they be re-appointed as auditors of the
Company will be proposed at the annual
general meeting.
Employment of people with
disabilities
People with disabilities have equal
opportunities when applying for
vacancies. In addition to complying with
legislative requirements, procedures
are in place to ensure that disabled
employees are fairly treated and that
their training and career development
needs are carefully managed. The
policies are considered to operate
effectively. For those employees
becoming disabled during the course
of their employment, the Group is
supportive, whether through re-training
or re-deployment, so as to provide an
opportunity for them to remain with the
Group whenever possible.
Employee involvement
Experian is committed to employee
involvement throughout the business
and is intent on motivating and keeping
staff informed on matters that concern
them in the context of their employment
and involving them through local
consultative procedures. Where there
are recognition agreements with trade
unions, the consultation process is
established through national and local
trade union representatives and through
joint consultation committees.
Employees are kept well informed on
matters of interest and the financial and
economic factors affecting the Group’s
performance through management
channels, conferences, meetings,
publications and intranet sites. More
detail on employee engagement,
together with information on diversity,
succession planning and talent
development, can be found in the our
people section of the annual report.
Experian continues to support employee
share ownership through the provision
of Sharesave and other employee share
plan arrangements which are intended
to align the interests of employees with
those of shareholders.
Creditor payment
For all trade creditors, it is Group policy to:
•Agree and confirm the terms of
payment at the commencement
of business with that supplier;
•Pay in accordance with any
contract agreed with the supplier
or as required by law; and
•Continually review payment
procedures and liaise with
suppliers as a means of eliminating
difficulties and maintaining good
working relationships.
Trade creditors of the Group at 31 March
2013 were 35 days based on the ratio of
Group trade creditors at the end of the
year to the amounts invoiced during the
year by trade creditors. The Company
has had no trade creditors throughout
the current and prior year.
Going concern
Details of the adoption by the Group and
the Company of the going concern basis
in preparing the financial statements
are set out in the financial review within
the business review section and are
incorporated into this report by reference.
Relevant audit information
As at 8 May 2013, so far as each director
is aware, there is no relevant audit
information, being information needed by
the auditors in connection with preparing
their report, of which the auditors are
unaware and each director has taken all
steps that he/she ought to have taken
as a director in order to make himself/
herself aware of any relevant audit
information and to establish that the
auditors are aware of that information.
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