SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C.
20549
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934
March 30, 2020
Commission
File Number 001-14978
SMITH & NEPHEW
plc
(Registrant's
name)
Building 5, Croxley Park,
Hatters Lane, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD18 8YE,
England
(Address
of registrant's principal executive offices)
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Smith+Nephew Annual General Meeting update
30 March 2020
Smith+Nephew (LSE:SN, NYSE:SNN), the global medical technology
business, announces the following changes to the format of
its Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held at 2:00pm
on Thursday, 9 April 2020.
Further to UK Government instructions issued on Monday, 23 March
2020 and the closure of the venue until further notice,
Shareholders must not attend the AGM in
person.
The AGM
will be convened with the minimum necessary quorum of two
shareholders (which will be facilitated by Smith+Nephew). All valid
proxy votes (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form)
will be included in the poll to be taken at the
meeting.
Shareholders are urged to register their proxy appointment
electronically via Smith+Nephew's Registrar's website
at www.investorcentre.co.uk/eproxy by
2.00pm on Tuesday, 7 April 2020. If shareholders prefer to return a
hard copy Form of Proxy, they should do so in accordance with the
instructions on the Form, which was distributed with the Notice of
Meeting. Where
necessary, you should contact the registered shareholder (the
custodian or broker) who looks after your investments in the
Company on your behalf, in order to vote your
shares.
The Board recommends voting in favour of all the resolutions
contained in the Notice of AGM as, in the Board's opinion, they are
in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders as a
whole.
The Board understands that beyond voting on the formal business of
the meeting, the AGM also serves as a forum for shareholders to
raise questions and comments to the Board.
Therefore, following the AGM, the Board will hold an Audiocast
meeting at 3:00pm on Thursday, 9 April 2020 for registered
shareholders and their corporate representatives or proxies. This
will include a short presentation from Roland Diggelmann, Chief
Executive Officer and then Roberto Quarta, Chair of Smith &
Nephew plc, who will respond to questions submitted prior to the
meeting.
The dial-in and login details in order to attend the Audiocast
meeting are being sent directly to registered
shareholders.
The presentation will also be available on the Smith+Nephew website
after the meeting.
Enquiries
Investors
Andrew
Swift
+44 (0) 1923 477433
Smith+Nephew
Media
Charles Reynolds
+44 (0) 1923 477314
Smith+Nephew
Susan Gilchrist / Ayesha
Bharmal
+44 (0) 207404 5959 Brunswick
About Smith+Nephew
Smith+Nephew is a portfolio medical technology business that exists
to restore people's bodies and their self-belief by using
technology to take the limits off living. We call this purpose
'Life Unlimited'. Our 17,500+ employees deliver this mission every
day, making a difference to patients' lives through the
excellence of our product portfolio, and the invention and
application of new technologies across our three global
franchises of Orthopaedics, Advanced Wound Management and Sports
Medicine & ENT. Founded in Hull, UK, in 1856, we now operate in
more than 100 countries, and generated annual sales of $5.1 billion
in 2019. Smith+Nephew is a constituent of the FTSE100 (LSE:SN,
NYSE:SNN). The terms 'Group' and 'Smith+Nephew' are used to refer
to Smith & Nephew plc and its consolidated subsidiaries,
unless the context requires otherwise.
For more information about Smith+Nephew, please
visit www.smith-nephew.com and
follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram or Facebook.
Forward-looking Statements
This document may contain forward-looking statements that may or
may not prove accurate. For example, statements regarding expected
revenue growth and trading margins, market trends and our product
pipeline are forward-looking statements. Phrases such as "aim",
"plan", "intend", "anticipate", "well-placed", "believe",
"estimate", "expect", "target", "consider" and similar expressions
are generally intended to identify forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other important factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from what is expressed or implied by
the statements. For Smith+Nephew, these factors include: economic
and financial conditions in the markets we serve, especially those
affecting health care providers, payers and customers; price levels
for established and innovative medical devices; developments in
medical technology; regulatory approvals, reimbursement decisions
or other government actions; product defects or recalls or other
problems with quality management systems or failure to comply with
related regulations; litigation relating to patent or other claims;
legal compliance risks and related investigative, remedial or
enforcement actions; disruption to our supply chain or operations
or those of our suppliers; competition for qualified personnel;
strategic actions, including acquisitions and dispositions, our
success in performing due diligence, valuing and integrating
acquired businesses; disruption that may result from transactions
or other changes we make in our business plans or organisation to
adapt to market developments; and numerous other matters that
affect us or our markets, including those of a political, economic,
business, competitive or reputational nature. Please refer to the
documents that Smith+Nephew has filed with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, including Smith+Nephew's most recent annual report on
Form 20-F, for a discussion of certain of these factors. Any
forward-looking statement is based on information available to
Smith+Nephew as of the date of the statement. All written or oral
forward-looking statements attributable to Smith+Nephew are
qualified by this caution. Smith+Nephew does not undertake any
obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement to
reflect any change in circumstances or in Smith+Nephew's
expectations.
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Patent and Trademark Office.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
Smith
& Nephew Plc
(Registrant)
Date: March
30, 2020
By: /s/
Susan Swabey
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Susan
Swabey
Company
Secretary