Investor Relations

The directors regularly meet with institutional shareholders and analysts. Investor Relations departments in London, New York and Geneva are dedicated to improving communications between the company and its shareholders. The company’s annual general meeting is used as an opportunity to communicate with private investors. Since it held its 1998 shareholders’ meetings before the Combined Code was issued, Reuters did not comply at those meetings with the recommendation that at shareholders’ meetings the level of proxies lodged on each resolution should be announced after the show of hands for the resolution. However, it is now studying the most effective way of complying with this recommendation in future.