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OUR SHAREHOLDERS
The Board also engages with stakeholders through news
releases and stock exchange announcements on a wide
range of matters including regular trading updates, in
addition to the half-year and full-year results reports
and accompanying presentations, changes to the Board,
key leadership appointments, material shareholdings,
refinancing and corporate transactions, acquisitions,
contract awards and losses as well as other operational
updates from across the Group. These news releases and
stock exchange announcements drive ad hoc engagement
with stakeholders and are available on the Company’s
website.
Details of the Group’s key stakeholders, their key concerns,
and how the Board engages with them are as follows.
Engagement with and receiving the support of our
shareholders is a key factor in achieving our ambitions.
We seek long-term relationships based on transparency,
honesty, and clarity – all of which are critical for building
trust.
Our shareholders are concerned with a broad range of
issues, including how the Company has responded to and
is affected by Covid-19, the impact of economy-wide forces
such as price inflation, other operational and financial
performance issues, developments in our markets,
regulatory developments, the execution and delivery of
our strategy, the sustainability of our business and the
impact RWS has on the communities we serve and the
environment in which we operate.
Shareholders receive regular updates in addition to the
half-year and full-year results reports and accompanying
presentations. The Chief Executive Officer and Chief
Financial Officer meet with shareholders to discuss
relevant developments in the business at our post-results
roadshows and programme of investor conferences.
In March 2022 we held a Capital Markets Day event. It was
attended by the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer,
the Chief Financial Officer, and other members of the
Executive Team. At this event the company announced its
medium-term strategy and five-year accelerated growth
plan via a series of presentations and Q&A sessions.
The feedback received from the meetings with
shareholders is provided to the Board as part of the
rolling agenda of matters to be considered by the Board
and Committees throughout the year.
The AGM provides the Board with an opportunity to
communicate with private and institutional investors.
Due to the Covid-19 restrictions in force in the UK at
the time, the 2022 AGM again took place as a closed
meeting. Although it was not possible for the Board to
meet with our shareholders in person at the 2022 AGM,
all shareholders were invited to submit questions to the
Board via email prior to the meeting.
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