RELX PLC ordinary shareholders

The RELX PLC ordinary share register is administered by Equiniti Limited. Equiniti provides a free online portal for shareholders at www.shareview.co.uk. Shareview allows shareholders to monitor the value of their shareholdings, view their dividend payments and submit dividend mandate instructions. Shareholders can also submit their proxy voting instructions ahead of Company meetings and update their personal contact details. Shareview Dealing provides a share purchase and sale facility. 

Equiniti contact details
Equiniti Limited, Aspect House, Spencer Road, Lancing, BN99 6DA, West Sussex, United Kingdom

What happens if I lose my share certificate?
 
If the value of your lost, stolen, or destroyed share certificate is below £100,000, Equiniti, the registrar can arrange for the issue of replacement certificates. Simply contact Equiniti as soon as you can, quoting your shareholder reference number (SRN) if possible and request a letter of indemnity. You will also need to pay an administration fee and a countersignature fee (which will be dependent on the value of the lost share certificate) to receive a replacement share certificate.
 
If the value of the missing share certificate is greater than £100,000 you will need to source bespoke indemnity arrangements directly with an appropriate insurance provider before a replacement share certificate will be issued.

While hard copy shareholder communications continue to be available to those shareholders requesting them, in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 and the Company’s Articles of Association, the Company uses its website as the main method of communicating with shareholders. By registering their details online at Shareview, shareholders can be notified by email when shareholder communications are published on the Company’s website. Shareholders can also use the Shareview website to appoint a proxy to vote on their behalf at shareholder meetings.

Shareholders who hold their Company shares through CREST may appoint proxies for shareholder meetings through the CREST electronic proxy appointment service by using the procedures described in the CREST manual.

From June 2024, payments to shareholders will no longer be made by cheque. To continue to receive RELX PLC dividends and any other monies payable to you in connection with your RELX PLC shares, you must take action and provide your bank or building society account details to the Company’s registrar, Equiniti, so that payments can be made directly to your nominated account.

Full details on how to arrange direct credit dividend payments are on the Equiniti Website, or you can provide your details through your Shareview Portfolio at www.shareview.co.uk.

If you do not provide your bank or building society account details, your dividend payments will be retained until your bank details are received, after which payment will be credited to your account as soon as possible. Your dividends will not accrue interest while they are being held for you and there may be a fee for Equiniti to reissue payments.

Equiniti has established a service for overseas shareholders in over 90 countries, which enables shareholders to have their dividends automatically converted from sterling and paid directly into their nominated bank account. Further details of this service, and the fees applicable, are available at www.shareview.co.uk/info/ops or by contacting Equiniti at the address shown under Shareholder Services, above.

Dividend reinvestment for shares trading on London Stock Exchange

Shareholders can choose to reinvest their Company dividends by purchasing further shares through the Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP) provided by Equiniti. Further information concerning the DRIP facility, together with the terms and conditions and an application form can be obtained online at www.shareview.co.uk/info/drip or by contacting Equiniti at the address shown under Shareholder Services above.

Dividend reinvestment for shares trading on Euronext Amsterdam and held via Euroclear Nederland

Shareholders can choose to reinvest Company dividends by purchasing shares through the Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP) provided by ABN AMRO Bank NV. Further information concerning the DRIP facility can be obtained via [email protected]

A telephone and internet dealing service is available through Equiniti, which provides a simple way for UK resident shareholders to buy or sell their shares. For telephone dealing call +44 (0)345 603 7037 between 8.30am and 5.30pm (UK time), Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays in England and Wales), and for internet dealing log on to www.shareview.co.uk/dealing. You will need your shareholder reference number shown on your dividend confirmation.

The Orr Mackintosh Foundation operates a scheme for shareholders with small shareholdings, that may be too small to sell economically, to make donations of shares. Details of the scheme can be obtained from the ShareGift website at www.sharegift.org, or by telephoning ShareGift on +44 (0)20 7930 3737.

On 28 July 1986, each RELX PLC ordinary share of £1 nominal value was sub-divided into four ordinary shares of 25p each. On 2 May 1997, each 25p ordinary share was sub-divided into two ordinary shares of 12.5p each. On 7 January 2008, the ordinary shares of 12.5p each were consolidated on the basis of 58 new ordinary shares of 14^51⁄116p nominal value for every 67 ordinary shares of 12.5p each held.

The mid-market price of RELX PLC’s £1 ordinary shares on 31 March 1982 was 282p. Adjusting for the sub-divisions and share consolidation referred to above results in an equivalent mid-market price of 40.72p for each existing ordinary share of 14^51⁄116p nominal value.

Warning to shareholders – unsolicited investment advice

• From time to time shareholders may receive unsolicited calls from fraudsters
• Fraudsters use persuasive and high-pressure tactics to lure investors into scams, sometimes known as boiler room scams
• They may offer to sell shares that turn out to be worthless or non-existent, or to buy shares at an inflated price in return for an upfront payment
• While high profits are promised, if you buy or sell shares in this way you will probably lose your money
• Thousands of people contact the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) about investment fraud each year

The FCA has issued some guidance on how to recognise and avoid investment fraud:

• Legitimate firms authorised by the FCA are unlikely to contact you unexpectedly with an offer to buy or sell shares.
• If you receive an unsolicited phone call, do not get into a conversation, note the name of the person and firm contacting you and then end the call.
• Check the Financial Services Register available at www.fca.org.uk/register to see if the person and firm contacting you is authorised by the FCA. If you wish to call the person or firm back, only use the contact details listed on the Register.
• Call the FCA on 0800 111 6768 if the firm does not have any contact details on the Register, or if you are told that they are out of date.
• Search the list of unauthorised firms to avoid at https://www.fca.org.uk/consumers/unauthorised-firmsindividuals#list.
• If you do buy or sell shares through an unauthorised firm, you will not have access to the Financial Ombudsman Service or the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
• Consider obtaining independent financial and professional advice before you hand over any money. If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.

If you are approached by fraudsters, please tell the FCA using the share fraud reporting form at www.fca.org.uk/consumers/report-scam-unauthorised-firm, where you can find out more about investment scams. You can also call the FCA Consumer Helpline on 0800 111 6768.

If you have already paid money to share fraudsters, you should contact Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or use its online tool: http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report_fraud