Marks and Spencer 2006 Annual Report Download - page 106

104 www.marksandspencer.com/shareholderinformation2006 Marks and Spencer Group plc
Shareholder information
B shares
As at 1 April 2006 there were 63,926
holders of B shares holding a total of
78,184,314 shares. All of these remaining
B shares were purchased by the Company
on 5 May 2006 and cancelled. If you have
any queries regarding the B shares please
call Lloyds TSB Registrars.
Shareholder vouchers
We sent Café Revive and Spend & Save
vouchers to our shareholders in 2005 to
reward them as valued customers in our
stores. We also extended the offer to
nominee companies and their beneficial
owners, which included a further 100,000
investors. We will be repeating the
programme in 2006, mailing the vouchers
in July. For further information, please
telephone Lloyds TSB Registrars.
Company website
Visit www.marksandspencer.com/thecompany
to find out more about your Company. You
can catch up on the latest news in the press
release section, read the latest Annual report
and review, as well as watch recordings of
past AGMs and our financial results
presentations. Our 2006 AGM is being
broadcast live on the internet and details of
how you can view this are included in your
Notice of Meeting. We welcome feedback
on the site. Please e-mail your comments to
[e-mail].
Electronic shareholder
communication
Shareview is an electronic communication
service for shareholders run by Lloyds TSB
Registrars, who maintain the share register
on our behalf. Registering for Shareview is
easy, secure and free – just go to
www.shareview.co.uk, click on “Register
now” and follow the on-screen process.
Features of the service allow you to:
• elect to be alerted by email when the
Annual report, Annual review and Notice
of Meeting are available on our website.
You can then read these online instead
of receiving copies in the post;
• check your Marks & Spencer
shareholding;
• access information about your dividends;
• value your portfolio;
• change your registered address details;
• set up a new dividend mandate or
change your existing details; and
• send your AGM proxy voting instructions
electronically.
When you register with Shareview you can
select your preferred communication
method, post or email. The information you
receive electronically will be the same as the
paper version, only you will receive it sooner.
This will help us save your Company money
and help conserve environmental resources.
FINANCIAL
CALENDAR
Record date to be eligible
for the final dividend
2 JUNE 2006
Annual General Meeting –
The ICC, Birmingham
2pm on 11 JULY 2006
Final ordinary dividend
for the year to 1 April 2006
to be paid
14 JULY 2006
Interim results to
be announced
7 NOVEMBER 2006*
Record date to be eligible
for interim dividend
17 NOVEMBER 2006*
Interim ordinary dividend
to be paid
12 JANUARY 2007*
* Provisional dates
REGISTERED OFFICE
AND HEAD OFFICE
Waterside House, 35 North
Wharf Road, London W2 1NW
Telephone [phone]
REGISTERED NUMBER
4256886
GROUP SECRETARY AND
HEAD OF CORPORATE
GOVERNANCE
Graham Oakley
REGISTRARS
Lloyds TSB Registrars,
The Causeway, Worthing,
West Sussex BN99 6DA
Telephone [phone]
and outside the UK
[phone]
www.lloydstsb-registrars.co.uk
Ordinary shares
As at 1 April 2006 there are 246,525 holders of ordinary shares whose shareholdings
are analysed as follows
Percentage of Number of
Number of total number of ordinary shares Percentage of
Size of shareholding shareholders shareholders 000’s ordinary shares
Over 1,000,000 216 0.09 1,178,733,765 70.06
100,001 – 1,000,000 534 0.22 191,205,420 11.36
10,001 – 100,000 3,226 1.31 74,739,881 4.44
5,001 – 10,000 6,492 2.63 44,924,348 2.67
2,001 – 5,000 25,358 10.29 77,374,988 4.60
1,001 – 2,000 37,278 15.12 53,194,784 3.16
501 – 1,000 50,272 20.39 37,463,328 2.23
1 – 500 123,149 49.95 24,800,500 1.48
246,525 100.0 1,682,437,014 100.0
Shareholders are further analysed as follows
Type of owner
Private holders 238,252 97.0 342,895,295 20.38
Institutional and corporate holders 8,273 3.0 1,339,541,719 79.62
246,525 100.0 1,682,437,014 100.0