28 May 2024
Blackbird
plc
(the
"Company")
Notice of annual general
meeting and posting of annual report and accounts
Board
change
Notice of annual general meeting
Blackbird plc (AIM:BIRD), the
technology licensor, developer and seller of market-leading cloud
native video editing platform, Blackbird, and developer of the
multiplayer editor in a browser, elevate.io, announces that that
the Company's 2024 Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") will be held at 10.30 a.m. on 18
June 2024 at the offices of Blake Morgan, 6 New Street Square,
London, EC4A 3DJ.
A circular containing the notice of
the AGM has been posted to those shareholders who have elected to
receive hard copy communications and is available on the Company's
website at www.blackbird.video/investor-relations.
The AGM will be run as an open
meeting and shareholders are welcome to attend the meeting in
person.
However, in order to ensure that
shareholders are able to follow the proceedings of the AGM without
attending in person, the Company will provide access online via the
Investor Meet Company platform. However, please note that
shareholders will not be able to vote online at the AGM via the
Investor Company Meet platform and are therefore requested to
submit their votes via proxy, as early as possible. Shareholders
are invited to submit any questions for the Board to consider.
Questions can be pre submitted ahead of the AGM via the Investor
Meet Company platform before 9.00 am the day before the AGM or
submitted at any time during the AGM itself by shareholders.
Questions will also be able to be asked at the AGM by those
attending the AGM in person.
Shareholders that wish to attend the
AGM remotely should register for the event in advance by using the
following link:
https://www.investormeetcompany.com/blackbird-plc/register-investor.
Shareholders will not receive a form
of proxy for the AGM in the post. Instead, they may submit proxy
votes electronically through the website of the Company's
registrars, Link Group, at https://investorcentre.linkgroup.co.uk/Login/Login
or via the Link Investor Centre app, as set out in
the notes to the notice of the AGM. Alternatively, a hard
copy proxy form may be requested directly from the Company's
registrars, Link Group, Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds
LS1 4DL (email: shareholderenquiries@linkgroup.co.uk,
telephone number: 0371 664 0300).
Posting of annual report and accounts
The Company's report and accounts
for the year ended 31 December 2023, a copy of which can be viewed
at https://www.blackbird.video/investor-relations/,
have also been sent to those shareholders who have elected to
receive hard copy communications.
Board change
Andrew Bentley, non-executive
Chairman of the Company, has informed the Company that he will
stepping down as Chairman at the end of the AGM to pursue other
business interests. He will remain a Non-Executive Director until
31 August 2024 to ensure a smooth transition as the Company
actively recruits a further Non-Executive Director.
Anne de Kerckhove, the Company's
senior Independent non-executive Director, will take over the role
of Chair of the Board after the formal part of the AGM.
Contacts:
Blackbird plc
Tel: +44 (0)20 8879 7245
Ian McDonough, Chief Executive
Officer
Stephen White, Chief Operating and
Financial Officer
Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and
Broker)
Tel: +44 (0)20 3328 5656
Nick Naylor / Piers Shimwell
(Corporate Finance)
Amrit Nahal / Guy McDougall (Equity
Sales and Corporate Broking)
About Blackbird plc
Blackbird plc operates in the
fast-growing SaaS, Media and Entertainment and content creation
markets. Blackbird plc's patented technology allows for frame
accurate navigation, playback, viewing and editing in the cloud and
it has two products.
BlackbirdⓇ a market leading suite of
cloud-native computing applications, is used by rights holders,
broadcasters, sports and news video specialists, live events and
content owners, post production houses, other mass market digital
video channels and corporations.
elevate.io, currently in general
release, is the company's new multi-player content creation tool in
a web browser aimed at professional teams and the Creator
Economy.
Blackbird plc also licences its core
video technology under its 'Powered by Blackbird' licensing model.
Enabling video companies to accelerate their path to true cloud
business models, licensees benefit from power and carbon
reductions, cost and time savings, less hardware and bandwidth
requirements and easy scalability.
www.blackbird.video
www.linkedin.com/company/blackbird-cloud
www.twitter.com/blackbirdcloud
www.facebook.com/blackbirdplc
www.youtube.com/c/blackbirdcloud
www.elevate.io