French Connection Group PLC Notice of AGM (5052U)

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RNS Number : 5052U

French Connection Group PLC

29 July 2020

29 July 2020

French Connection Group PLC

(the "Company")

Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of Annual General Meeting

The board of directors of French Connection Group plc (the "Board") hereby confirms that its Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 January 2020 has been posted to shareholders, together with the notice of the 2020 Annual General Meeting ("AGM") (the "AGM Notice") and associated form of proxy.

All documents are now available from the investors section of the Company's website at https://www.frenchconnection.com/content/investor-relations/index.htm , and copies have also been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/NSM.

Notice of AGM

The Company's Annual General Meeting is to be held at 11:00am on 26th August 2020.

We would like to thank all shareholders for their co-operation and understanding.

As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are making changes to the way in which we conduct this year's AGM. French Connection understands and respects the importance of the AGM to shareholders and the Board greatly values the opportunity to meet shareholders in person. However, the health and safety of our shareholders, employees and the broader community is of paramount importance.

In light of the UK Government's current guidance on public gatherings, and the new regulations set out in Schedule 14 of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act, the Board has concluded that shareholders cannot be permitted to attend the AGM in person this year.

The AGM will be held by electronic means and will be kept as concise and efficient as possible with the minimum necessary quorum of two shareholders in order to conduct the business of the meeting. The format of the meeting will be purely functional to comply with relevant legal requirements.

Instead of attending this year's AGM, shareholders are asked to exercise their votes by submitting their proxy electronically or by post as soon as possible, and these must be received by no later than 11.00 am on Monday 24(th) August 2020. Shareholders who wish to appoint a proxy are recommended to appoint the Chair of the meeting as their proxy. As a result of the current Government restrictions, if a shareholder appoints someone else as their proxy, that proxy will not be able to attend the meeting in order to cast the shareholder's vote.

Your votes do matter. Proxy instructions (which include the ability to lodge proxies electronically) are set out in the AGM Notice. Shareholders are also invited to submit questions in advance of the meeting via email at [e-mail] by no later than 11.00 am on Monday 24(th) August 2020. We will endeavour to answer questions received in advance, by publishing responses on thematic topics on our website either prior to, or shortly after, the AGM.

We will continue to monitor the evolving impact of the pandemic and, if it becomes appropriate or necessary to make changes to the proposed format of the 2020 AGM, we will inform shareholders as soon as we can.

Enquiries:

French Connection Group plc

Lee Williams, Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary [phone]

Paternoster Communications

Tom Buchanan

Catriona Woolner-Winders

[phone]

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