CHARTER plc Proposed disposal of US Defence Businesses & Notice of EGM
06/11/2003
THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. If you are in any doubt as to the action you should take, you are recommended immediately to seek your own financial advice from your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other independent professional adviser authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
If you have sold or otherwise transferred all your Ordinary Shares, please forward this document together with the accompanying Form of Proxy as soon as possible to the purchaser or transferee or to the stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for delivery to the purchaser or transferee.
Hoare Govett Limited, which is regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority, is acting exclusively for Charter plc in connection with the Disposal and for no one else and will not be responsible to anyone other than Charter plc for providing the protections afforded to clients of Hoare Govett Limited or for providing advice in relation to the Disposal.
This document should be read as a whole. Your attention is drawn to the letter from the Chairman of Charter plc, which is set out on pages 5 to 10 of this document in which the Directors of Charter plc recommend that you vote in favour of the Resolution to be proposed at the Extraordinary General Meeting referred to below.
Notice of an Extraordinary General Meeting of Charter plc, to be held at 10.00 a.m. on 25 November 2003 at the offices of Hoare Govett Limited, 250 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4AA is set out at the end of this document. A Form of Proxy for use at the Extraordinary General Meeting is enclosed. To be valid, the Form of Proxy should be completed, signed and returned in accordance with the instructions printed thereon to the Company’s registrar, Computershare Investor Services PLC, The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol BS13 8FB, as soon as possible but, in any event, so as to arrive not later than 10.00 a.m. on 23 November 2003. The completion and return of a Form of Proxy will not preclude you from attending and voting at the Extraordinary General Meeting should you choose to do so.
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