Thomas Cook Group plc
(the "Company")
Annual Report & Accounts 2011 and Annual General Meeting
Further to the release of the Company's Preliminary Results announcement on 14 December 2011, the Company announces that it has today published its Annual Report & Accounts 2011.
In compliance with LR 9.6.1, the following documents have today been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do:
1. Annual Report & Accounts 2011
2. Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM") 2012
3. Form of Proxy
The AGM is scheduled to be held at 10.00am on Wednesday 8 February 2012 at The Lincoln Centre, 18 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3ED.
The Annual Report & Accounts 2011 and the Notice of AGM 2012 can also be viewed at or downloaded from the Company's corporate website at www.thomascookgroup.com.
The Company's Preliminary Results announcement of 14 December 2011 contained a management report, audited financial statements, which were prepared in accordance with the applicable accounting standards, as well as information regarding the Company's principal risks and uncertainties. The financial information set out in the Company's Preliminary Results announcement of 14 December 2011 does not constitute the Company's statutory accounts for the year ended 30 September 2011. Statutory accounts for 2011 are included in the Annual Report & Accounts 2011, which will be delivered to the registrar of companies in due course. The auditors have reported on those accounts; their reports were (i) unqualified, (ii) did not include a reference to any matters to which the auditors drew attention by way of emphasis without qualifying their report and (iii) did not contain a statement under section 498(2) or (3) of the Companies Act 2006 in respect of the accounts for 2011.
Included in this announcement is a responsibility statement from the Directors at Appendix A, as extracted from the Annual Report & Accounts 2011. This has been included for the purposes of compliance with the Disclosure and Transparency Rules. This announcement should be read in conjunction with, and is not a substitute for, reading the full Annual Report & Accounts 2011. There are no related party transactions requiring disclosure.
For further information please contact:
Investors | |
Derek Woodward, Group Company Secretary | +44 (0) 20 7557 6415 |
Press | |
Bronwen Griffiths-Barrasso Finsbury Faeth Birch | +44 (0) 1733 417268 +44 (0) 20 7251 3801 |
Appendix A
Statement of Directors' responsibilities
The Annual Report & Accounts 2011 contains the following statements regarding responsibility for the Annual Report, the Directors' Remuneration Report and the financial statements:
"The Directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report, the Directors' Remuneration Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations. Company law requires the Directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law, the Directors have prepared the Group and the Company financial statements in accordance with
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) as adopted by the European Union. The financial statements are required by law to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company and the Group and of the profit or loss of the Group for that period.
In preparing those financial statements, the Directors are required to:
• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
• make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and
• state that the financial statements comply with IFRSs as adopted by the European Union.
The Directors confirm that they have complied with the above requirements in preparing the financial statements.
The Directors are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that show and explain the Company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Company and the Group, and for ensuring that the financial statements and the Directors' Remuneration Report comply with the Companies Act 2006 and, as regards the Group financial statements, Article 4 of the IAS Regulation. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and the Group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The Directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the Company's website, and 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
Derek Woodward
Group Company Secretary"
