Chairman’s Letter 15th November 2010
Annual General Meeting to be held on 9 December 2010 at 11:00 am at
The Cornwallis Country Hotel, Rectory Road, Brome, Eye, Suffolk IP23 8AJ
This document is important and requires your immediate attention.
If you are in any doubt as to the action you should take, you should seek your own personal financial advice from your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other independent professional adviser authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
If you have sold or otherwise transferred all of your shares in CVS Group plc (“Company”), please pass this document, together with the accompanying documents, as soon as possible to the purchaser or transferee, or to the stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser or transferee.
CVS Group plc
Registered in England and Wales No.06312831
CVS House,
Vinces Road
Diss, Norfolk
IP22 4AY
15 November 2010
To ordinary shareholders
Dear Shareholder
Annual General Meeting to be held on 9 December 2010 at 11:00 am at
The Cornwallis Country Hotel, Rectory Road, Brome, Eye, Suffolk IP23 8AJ
I am pleased to send you details of our 2010 annual general meeting (“AGM”), which will be held at The Cornwallis Country Hotel, Rectory Road, Brome, Eye, Suffolk IP23 8AJ on 9 December 2010 at 11:00 a.m. I hope that you will be able to attend.
The formal notice of the AGM (“Notice”), enclosed with this letter, sets out the business to be considered at the AGM.
This year, shareholders will be asked to approve 8 resolutions. Resolutions 1 to 6 are proposed as ordinary resolutions. This means that, for each of those resolutions to be passed, more than 50 per cent of the votes cast must be in favour of the resolution. Resolutions 7 and 8 are proposed as special resolutions. This means that, for each of those resolutions to be passed, at least 75 per cent of the votes cast must be in favour of the resolution.
For further guidance, you should refer to the explanatory notes on the resolutions which follow the Notice.
Recommendation
The directors consider that all the resolutions set out in the Notice are in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders as a whole. The directors will be voting in favour of them, and unanimously recommend that you do so as well.
Action to be taken
You will find enclosed a proxy form for use in respect of the annual general meeting. As a member you are entitled to appoint one or more persons as proxies to exercise all or any of your rights to attend, speak and vote at the annual general meeting. A proxy need not be a member of the Company. You may appoint more than one proxy in relation to the meeting provided that each proxy is appointed to exercise the rights attached to a different share or shares held by you. To appoint more than one proxy, you will need to complete a separate proxy form in relation to each appointment. Additional proxy forms may be obtained by contacting the Company's registrar on 0870 7071 656 or you may photocopy the proxy form. You will need to state clearly on each proxy form the number of shares in relation to which the proxy is appointed. If you do not intend to attend the meeting in person, please complete and return this form indicating how you wish your votes to be cast on each of the resolutions. You will still be able to attend and vote at the meeting should you wish to do so.
To be effective, the proxy form must be completed in accordance with the instructions printed on it and returned as soon as possible but, in any event, so as to reach the Company's registrar, Computershare Investor Services PLC of The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol BS99 6ZY, by no later than 11.00 am on Tuesday 7 December 2010 (or, in the event
Yours sincerely
Richard Connell
Chairman
CVS Group plc