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P62-63 Information for investors
The Bank of New York maintains a Global BuyDIRECT Plan for the Company, which is a direct purchase and sale plan
for depository receipts, with a dividend reinvestment facility. For additional information, please call 1-800-345-1612, The
Bank of New York’s Global BuyDIRECT number, or write to:
The Bank of New York
Shareholder Relations Department
Global BuyDIRECT
Church Street Station
P.O. Box 11009
New York, NY 10286-1009
USA
The Global BuyDIRECT Plan will continue after the merger with AirTouch.
Annual General Meeting
The fifteenth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at The Institution of Electrical Engineers, Savoy Place,
London WC2 on 21 July 1999 at 11.30 a.m. The Notice of Meeting, together with details of the business to be conducted
at the Meeting, is being circulated to shareholders with this Report.
Scrip dividend scheme
The Company’s scrip dividend scheme enables shareholders to take new shares in lieu of cash dividends. The value of
new shares issued under the scheme, the ’cash equivalent’, is the average middle market price of the Company’s shares
on the London Stock Exchange for the five business days beginning with the date the shares are first quoted ‘ex-
dividend’. The average middle market price of the ordinary shares of the Company will be available until 13 August 1999
by telephoning 08700 707909. If on the first day of dealing on the London Stock Exchange in the new shares the cash
equivalent was to differ substantially (interpreted by the Inland Revenue to be 15 per cent or more) from the market value
of a new share, for tax purposes the Inland Revenue may substitute that market value as the ‘cash equivalent’.
The table below shows the figures for the last two dividends in relation to new shares issued under the scheme.
Cash Market
equivalent value
Final dividend 1998
(14 August 1998) 731.2p 787.0p
First interim dividend 1999
(12 February 1999) 887.2p 1114.25p
Set out below is information relevant to the second interim dividend for the financial year ended 31 March 1999:
Shares first traded ex-dividend 14 June 1999
Offer price calculation period 14-18 June 1999
Record date 18 June 1999
Return date for mandates and variations 14 July 1999
Annual General Meeting 21 July 1999
Dividend payment date and first
day of dealings in new shares 13 August 1999
For further details of the scrip dividend scheme, shareholders should contact the Company’s Registrars.
Dividend mandates
Shareholders who wish to receive cash dividends directly into their bank or building society account should contact the
Company’s Registrars for a mandate form.
Shareholders
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