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Financial Information and Currency of Financial Statements
All of the financial statements included in this annual report have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles
generally accepted in the United States, or U.S. GAAP. The reporting currency of our consolidated financial statements
is pounds sterling.
Corporate Structure and Governance
Virgin Media Inc. is a Delaware corporation and its common stock is publicly traded in the United States on the NASDAQ
Global Select Market and in the United Kingdom on the London Stock Exchange. The primary listing for the shares
of our common stock is the NASDAQ Global Select Market.
The following chart shows the corporate structure of Virgin Media through which our primary operations are conducted.
This is a condensed chart and it does not show all of our operating and other intermediate companies.
Virgin Media Inc. (1)
Intermediate Holding Companies (2)
Virgin Media Finance PLC (3)
Virgin Media Investment Holdings
Limited (4)
Virgin Media Investments Limited Virgin Media Secured Finance PLC (5)
Virgin Media Limited and other
Operating Subsidiaries (6)
(1) Issuer of our convertible senior notes.
(2) The entities which we refer to as the intermediate holding companies are Virgin Media Group LLC, Virgin Media Holdings Inc., Virgin Media (UK) Group, Inc.
and Virgin Media Communications Limited.
(3) Issuer of our unsecured senior notes.
(4) Virgin Media Investment Holdings Limited is the principal borrower under our senior credit facility. Substantially all of the assets of Virgin Media Investment
Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries secure our senior credit facility and senior secured notes.
(5) Issuer of our senior secured notes.
(6) Virgin Media Limited is one of our principal operating companies, although significant portions of our operations are conducted through other operating
subsidiaries.
Note Concerning Virgin Media Investment Holdings Limited and Virgin Media Investments Limited
VMIH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Virgin Media Finance PLC, or Virgin Media Finance, and a wholly owned indirect
subsidiary of Virgin Media. VMIL is a wholly owned subsidiary of VMIH. VMIH and VMIL are senior subordinated
guarantors of the unsecured senior notes issued by Virgin Media Finance. As VMIH and VMIL's guarantees are not
deemed to be unconditional, separate financial statements for each of VMIH and VMIL have been included in this
annual report on Form 10-K pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. VMIH and VMIL are also guarantors of
the senior secured notes issued by Virgin Media Secured Finance PLC, or Virgin Media Secured Finance. VMIH is
the principal borrower under Virgin Media's senior credit facility.
VMIH and VMIL carry on the same business as Virgin Media, are not accelerated filers, and are companies incorporated
in England and Wales, with their registered office at Media House, Bartley Wood Business Park, Bartley Way, Hook,
Hampshire, RG27 9UP, England. Unless otherwise indicated, the discussion contained in this report applies to VMIH
and VMIL as well as Virgin Media.
Corporate Governance Statement
We are committed to maintaining high standards of corporate governance and complying with the corporate governance
regime of the U.S. State of Delaware and the applicable rules of the NASDAQ Global Select Market, the London Stock
Exchange and the SEC. Information relating to our board, committees, corporate governance codes and practices are
available on our website at www.virginmedia.com/investors under the heading “Corporate Governance.”
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