Lenta PLC Lenta Announcement on Notice of EGM (8462D)

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RNS Number : 8462D

Lenta PLC

01 November 2020

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Lenta Announces EGM

St. Petersburg, Russia, 1 November 2020: Lenta PLC (MOEX & LSE: LNTA), one of the largest retail chains in Russia, announces that a Notice of an Extraordinary General Meeting of the company (the "EGM Notice") has today been dispatched by fax to shareholders and posted on Lenta's website: http://www.lentainvestor.com/egm .

The Extraordinary General Meeting will be held on Monday 23 November at 12:00 noon Moscow time at Lenta offices, located at 112B Savushkina street, St. Petersburg, Russia.

The EGM Notice has been published and is available at http://www.lentainvestor.com/egm together with (for information purposes) a copy of the notice dispatched by fax to shareholders referred to above.

In accordance with Listing Rule 14.3.6, electronic copy of this notice has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

For further information please visit www.lentainvestor.com or contact:

 
 Lenta                                      Lenta 
  Mariya Filippova                           Timothy Post 
  Head of Public Relations and Government    Investor Relations Officer 
  Affairs                                    timothy.post@lenta.com 
  maria.filippova@lenta.com 
 
   EM (International Media Inquiries) 
   Lenta@em-comms.com

About Lenta

Lenta is the largest hypermarket chain in the Russian Federation and the fourth largest food retailer. The Company was founded in 1993 in St. Petersburg and currently operates 250 hypermarkets and 136 supermarkets in 88 cities across Russia with almost 1.5 million square meters of selling space. The average Lenta hypermarket has approximately 5,500 square meters of selling space, while the Lenta supermarket averages 800 square meters. The company operates 12 distribution centers throughout Russia. Lenta is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Moscow Exchange, trading under the ticker: 'LNTA'

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