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74 I Barclays PLC Annual Report 2015 home.barclays/annualreport
Governance: Directors’ report
Private shareholders
Throughout 2015, we continued to communicate with our private
shareholders using our shareholder mailings. Also, shareholders can
choose to sign up to Shareview so that they receive information about
Barclays and their shareholding directly by email. On a practical level,
over 60,000 shareholders did not cash their Shares Not Taken Up
(SNTU) cheque following the Rights Issue in September 2013. During
2015, we conducted a tracing process to reunite these shareholders with
their SNTU monies together with any unclaimed dividends. By the end
of the year, we had returned over £2.2m to our shareholders. In addition,
we launched a special share dealing service in October 2015 for
shareholders holding 4,000 shares or less. Shareholders could donate
their sale proceeds to ShareGift if they wished. Shareholders donated
nearly £130,000.
Our Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Our AGM continues to be a key date in the diary for the Board. It affords
us our primary opportunity to engage with shareholders, particularly our
private shareholders, on the key issues facing the Group and any
questions they may have. The majority of Directors, including the
Chairman, were available for informal discussion before and after the
formal business of our 2015 AGM. All resolutions proposed at the 2015
AGM, which were considered on a poll, were passed with votes for
ranging from 88.5% to 99.9% of the total votes cast.
The 2016 AGM will be held on Thursday 28 April 2016 at the Royal
Festival Hall in London. The Notice of AGM can be found in a separate
document, which is sent out at least 20 working days before the AGM
and also made available at home.barclays/agm. Voting on the
resolutions will again be by poll and the results will be announced via
the Regulatory News Service and made available on our website on the
same day. We encourage any shareholders who are unable to attend on
the day to vote in advance of the meeting via home.barclays/
investorrelations/vote or through Shareview (www.shareview.co.uk).
How we comply
Corporate Governance engagement
ahead of 2015 AGM
2014 Full year results
presentation and Fixed Income
conference call
Analyst briefing on 2014
full year results
Analyst briefing on 2015
half year results
Analyst briefing on Q3 2015
results
Q3 2015 results conference call
Q4
Q3
Q2
Q1
2014 Full year results
announcement
Q1 2015 results conference call
Investor audit
Analyst briefing on Q1 2015
results
Q1 2015 results
announcement
2015 AGM
2015 Half year results
announcement
Q3 2015 results
announcement
Reporting events Stakeholder engagement
2015 Half year results and Fixed
Income conference calls