WHEN SHOULD AN AGM BE HELD?

All shareholders have a right to attend their company's AGM, and the board of a plc has a duty to make the AGM accessible.

This is made clear in both the Stock Exchange's "Combined Code on Corporate Governance" and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators' "Guide to Best Practice for Annual General Meetings".

In the case of football companies where there are large numbers of small shareholders who are likely to be at their workplace during normal working hours, AGM's should be held in the evenings or at weekends.

A high proportion of football companies do hold their AGM's in the evening.

QPR Holdings plc has so far held its AGM's on a weekday afternoon.

Thanks to the Football Governance Research Unit at Birkbeck University for providing this information.

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