3 August 2018
The Berkeley Group Holdings plc
Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of Annual General Meeting
The Berkeley Group Holdings plc ("Berkeley" or the "Company") announces that the following documents have today been posted or otherwise made available to shareholders:
1. 2018 Annual Report and Accounts (the "2018 Annual Report");
2. 2018 Notice of Annual General Meeting (the "2018 AGM Notice"); and
3. Form of Proxy for the 2018 Annual General Meeting.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.1, a copy of each of the above documents has been uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
The 2018 Annual Report and the 2018 AGM Notice are also available on the Company's website at www.berkeleygroup.co.uk/investor-information/corporate-governance and in hard copy upon request to the Company Secretary, The Berkeley Group Holdings plc, Berkeley House, 19 Portsmouth Road, Cobham, Surrey KT11 1JG.
The Company's Annual General Meeting will be held on 5 September 2018 at 11:00am at the Woodlands Park Hotel, Woodlands Lane, Stoke D'Abernon, Cobham, Surrey KT11 3QB.
The Company released its preliminary announcement of annual results for the year ended 30 April 2018 ("Final Results Announcement") on 20 June 2018. This information together with the information in the appendix to this announcement, which has been extracted from the 2018 Annual Report constitutes the materials required for the purposes of compliance with Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rule 6.3.5(2)(b) to be communicated to media in unedited full text through a Regulatory Information Service.
This announcement should be read in conjunction with and is not a substitute for reading the full 2018 Annual Report; page references in the appendix refer to page references in the 2018 Annual Report.
Jared Cranney
Company Secretary
The Berkeley Group Holdings plc
Tel: 01932 868555
LEI: 2138009OQSSLVVHQAL78
Media Enquiries:
Tim Robertson
Novella Communications
Tel: 020 3151 7008
Appendix
Statement of Directors' Responsibilities
The following responsibility statement is repeated here solely for the purpose of complying with DGTR 6.3.5. This statement relates to and is extracted from page 118 of the 2018 Annual Report and Accounts. Responsibility is for the full 2018 Annual Report and Accounts and not the extracted information presented in this announcement and the Final Results Announcement.
Statement of Directors' responsibilities in respect of the Annual Report and the Financial Statements
The directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report and the Group and parent Company financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the directors to prepare Group and parent Company financial statements for each financial year. Under that law they are required to prepare the Group financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union (IFRSs as adopted by the EU) and applicable law and have elected to prepare the parent Company financial statements in accordance with UK accounting standards, including FRS 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework.
Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group and parent Company and of their profit or loss for that period. In preparing each of the Group and parent Company financial statements, the directors are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable, relevant, reliable and prudent;
- for the Group financial statements, state whether they have been prepared in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the EU;
- for the parent Company financial statements, state whether applicable UK accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the parent company financial statements;
- assess the Group and parent Company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern; and
- use the going concern basis of accounting unless they either intend to liquidate the Group or the parent Company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the parent Company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the parent Company and enable them to ensure that its financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are responsible for such internal control as they determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and have general responsibility for taking such steps as are reasonably open to them to safeguard the assets of the Group and to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities.
Under applicable law and regulations, the directors are also responsible for preparing a Strategic Report, Directors' Report, Directors' Remuneration Report and Corporate Governance Statement that complies with that law and those regulations.
The directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the company's website. Legislation in the UK governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
Directors' responsibility statement
Each of the Directors, whose names and functions are listed on pages 80 to 85 confirm that, to the best of each person's knowledge:
a. the Group financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with IFRS's as adopted by the European Union, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of the Group;
b. the Strategic Report, together with the Directors' Report, includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the Group, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that it faces, including those that would threaten its business model, future performance, solvency or liquidity; and
c. the Annual Report, taken as a whole, is fair, balanced and understandable and provides the information necessary for shareholders to assess the Company's financial performance and position, business model and strategy.
