29 February 2024
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc
Annual
Report 2023, Annual General Meeting 2024 and General Meeting of C
Shareholders
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc (the
Company) announces that it has today published its Annual Report
for the year ended 31 December 2023 (Annual Report 2023), its
Notice of Annual General Meeting (AGM) and its Notice of General
Meeting of C Shareholders (Class Meeting) on the Company's website,
www.Rolls-Royce.com
The AGM will be held at 11.00am on
Thursday, 23 May 2024. The General Meeting of the C Shareholders
will be held on Thursday, 23 May 2024 at 12 noon or, if later,
immediately after the conclusion of the AGM. The AGM and the Class
Meeting will be held at the Rolls-Royce Learning and Development
Centre, Wilmore Road, Derby, DE24 9BD.
In accordance with Listing Rule
9.6.1, copies of the following documents will shortly be available for inspection from the National
Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism:
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Annual Report 2023;
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Notice of Annual General Meeting 2024 and
associated proxy form;
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Notice of General Meeting of C Shareholders and
associated proxy form;
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Combined proxy form for the AGM and Class
Meeting;
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Proposed plan rules for the Group Employee Share
Purchase Plan;
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Proposed plan rules for the Long Term Incentive
Plan; and
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Proposed new Articles of Association
The Notices of AGM and Class Meeting
are expected to be posted to the Company's shareholders on 14 March
2024, together with the Annual Report 2023, to those shareholders
who have elected to receive hard copy communications.
This information should be read in
conjunction with the Company's preliminary results announcement. A
condensed set of the Company's financial statements, information on
important events that have occurred during the financial year and
their impact on the financial statements, along with the related
party transactions and the Company's principal risks were included
in the preliminary results announcement released on 22 February
2024. That information, together with the information set out below
in the appendix, which is extracted from the Annual Report 2023, is
provided in accordance with the Disclosure and Transparency Rule
(DTR) 6.3.5R, which requires it to be communicated to the media in
full unedited text through a Regulatory Information Service. This
announcement is not a substitute for reading the full Annual Report
2023. Page and note references in the text below refer to page
numbers and note numbers in the Annual Report
2023.
Enquiries:
Investor Relations:
Isabel Green +44 7880
160976
Media:
Richard Wray +44 7810 850055
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc LEI:
213800EC7997ZBLZJH69
Appendix
Statement of Directors'
responsibilities in respect of the Financial Statements
The Directors are responsible for
preparing the Annual Report and the financial statements in
accordance with applicable law and regulation.
Company law requires the Directors
to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that
law, the Directors have prepared the Group Financial Statements in
accordance with UK-adopted international accounting standards and
the Company Financial Statements in accordance with United Kingdom
Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting
Standards, comprising FRS 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework and
applicable law).
Under company law, 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 Company and of the profit or loss of the Group for that period.
In preparing the financial statements, the Directors are required
to:
· select
suitable accounting policies and then apply them
consistently;
· state
whether applicable UK-adopted international accounting standards
have been followed for the Group financial statements and United
Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising FRS 101 have been followed
for the Company financial statements, subject to any material
departures disclosed and explained in the financial
statements;
· make
judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and
prudent; and
· prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis
unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Group and Company
will continue in business.
The Directors are responsible for
safeguarding the assets of the Group and Company and hence for
taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud
and other irregularities.
The Directors are also responsible
for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show
and explain the Group's and Company's transactions and disclose
with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the
Group and Company and enable them to ensure that the Financial
Statements and the Directors' Remuneration Report comply with the
Companies Act 2006.
The Directors are responsible for
the maintenance and integrity of the Company's website. Legislation
in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination
of financial statements may differ from legislation in other
jurisdictions.
By order of the Board
Pamela Coles
Chief Governance Officer
22 February 2024