Ham and cheese sandwiches and warm white wine are back on the table as increasing numbers of annual general meetings are held in-person.
Pandemic restrictions have forced many companies to switch to virtual meetings for shareholders since 2020. While globally more than a quarter of AGMs are still held remotely, research has found that in the UK, Ireland and the Channel Islands only 6.5 per cent were conducted entirely online.
British companies have largely headed back to headquarters and hotels to convene their AGMs face to face, with nine in ten annual meetings held fully in-person during 2022, according to Computershare, the shareholder specialist that conducted the research.
Mark Cleland, chief executive of Computershare in the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands and South Africa, said
