Premier Farnell plc

("Premier Farnell" or "the Company")

Annual Report 2015 and Notice of Annual General Meeting

Premier Farnell plc announces that the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of the
Company will be held on 16 June 2015 at 11:00 am at the offices of Allen &
Overy LLP, One Bishops Square, London, E1 6AD.

Premier Farnell has today posted (or otherwise made available) to its
shareholders the following documents:

Annual Report for the year ending 1 February 2015

Notice of Annual General Meeting; and

Form of Proxy for the Annual General Meeting (for those shareholders entitled
to attend and vote)

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.1 copies of these documents have been
submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for viewing
shortly at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

The Company's Annual Report and the Notice of Annual General Meeting are also
available on the Company website at www.premierfarnell.com/premier_farnell/investorrelations/AGM

In accordance with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 6.3.5 (2) (b) additional
information is set out in the appendices to this announcement.

Enquiries:
Premier Farnell plc
Steven Webb                    Company Secretary        +44 (0)870 129 8608
Nicole Nordwall                Investor Relations       +44 (0) 20 7851 4142

Appendices
The following information is extracted from the Annual Report and Accounts.
Page references are to pages in the Annual Report and Accounts.

Appendix A:  Directors' responsibility statement pursuant to DTR 4 (page 61)

Each of the Directors, as listed on pages 44 and 45, confirms that, to the best
of his or her knowledge:

a. the consolidated financial statements in this report, which have been
prepared in accordance with

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) as adopted by the EU, IFRIC
interpretations and those parts of the Companies Act 2006 applicable to
companies reporting under IFRS, and the Company financial statements in this
report which have been prepared in accordance with UK GAAP give a true and fair
view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of the Group
taken as a whole; and

b. the management report (Strategic Report) contained in this Annual Report
includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and
the position of the Company and the Group taken as a whole, together with a
description of the principal risks and uncertainties that they face.

Appendix B: Risks and uncertainties (pages 24 - 25)

The Principal Risks and Uncertainties facing the Group are summarised below.

The disclosure of risks and uncertainties in the table below reflects the
approach of the Company to also look for the opportunities presented when
addressing significant risks. The Principal Risks are formally reviewed twice
per year by the Board. Updates in terms of emerging risks or significant
actions undertaken are addressed as and when required at Board meetings. The
Principal Risks are determined through an evaluation of likelihood of
occurrence and potential impact, with a full review also undertaken by the
Senior Executive Team (SET).

Management also reviews specific strategic, operational, and financial and
compliance risks in regular focused forums during the year; SET meetings;
quarterly business reviews with each of the businesses; major programmes and
project reviews; and at other key executive management meetings.


Risks and      Mitigating Actions               Opportunity
Uncertainties


Competitive    We continue to build our high    We continue to implement
pressures      service proposition by adding    strategic initiatives to build
increase       new technologies and a broad     customer loyalty and provide a
               range of products, working       differentiated proposition for
               closely with suppliers as we     our customer base. Our
               provide end-to-end solutions     proposition is increasingly
               throughout their product         personalised to meet the needs
               development process.             of customers in targeted
                                                segments.


               We are rationalising our
               element14 organisation by        We are partnering more closely
               globalising our operating model  with suppliers as we look to
               and leveraging the efficiencies  support the introduction of
               of the web.                      their new technology and drive
                                                market share gains in key
                                                market segments.


Insufficient   We have a fully integrated       By enhancing and better
progress with  multichannel sales and marketing targeting our offering, and
improving      plan that is aligned with the    developing the customer
performance in wider element14 strategy and the proposition by leveraging our
the Americas   evolution of our global          global resources, we can
               proposition. This plan is aimed  significantly improve
               at addressing the needs of our   operating performance in the
               customers, including a focus on  Americas.
               specific segmentation by type of
               customers and vertical
               industries.


Failure to     Embest and AVID's engineers are  Leveraging our technology
leverage our   working together to optimise     expertise offers significant
technology     performance of specific          opportunities in meeting the
expertise and  projects. Investments have been  needs of our component
partnerships   made to develop the leadership   manufacturer customers but
with key       teams and back office systems at also in our core engineering
suppliers      Embest.                          customer base.


Long term      Software and services are        Environmental and technology
evolution of   increasingly part of our         trends are sources of
the electronic offering to product development  electronics innovation which
               customers. This increases the    underpin sales to our product
Component      value that they extract from our development customers.
distribution   proposition while diversifying
model          our business model away from
               pure distribution.
                                                Through ongoing focus on
                                                reducing the environmental
                                                impact of doing business, we
               The Group takes actions to       are introducing more efficient
               reduce the impact of its         processes and can offer
               business on the environment      further complementary services
               through carbon emissions and by  to our customers.
               encouraging recycling,
               especially of packaging.


               Our regional warehouse model
               reduces the impact of carbon
               emissions compared to
               alternatives.


Business       The CEO, CFO and CPO are         Our new global structure will
               directly involved in managing    facilitate better sharing of
reorganisation this model change, supported by  expertise and resources across
               both experienced programme       the business globally. It will
as we evolve   managers and high performing     allow us to enhance the
our            employees from across the        service we provide to meet the
               business.                        needs of customers and
business model                                  suppliers across regional
                                                boundaries.

Recruitment,   We actively measure the          We seek to actively engage
               retention of talent within our   employees by focusing on
development    organisation which provides us   training and development,
               with the ability to track trends customer relationships,
or retention   and act with the appropriate and leadership, social
of             necessary actions.               responsibility and
                                                communications.
talented
people
               Reward schemes are continuously
               evaluated to drive and reward    New global structure will
               performance and ensure retention provide key people with better
               of key talent.                   ways of working and
                                                development opportunities.


Data and       A dedicated data function has    Increased planned investment
content        been established to ensure       in global systems, data and
               compliance with internal         data management processes to
quality        processes and external           provide our customers with
inhibit        regulations.                     high quality product
effectiveness                                   information and suppliers with
of our                                          rich insights into customer
eCommerce                                       behaviour as well as enabling
strategy       A data strategy and governance   greater operating
               framework has been developed to  efficiencies.
               support the information
               requirements of our strategic
               programmes.


Significant    Business continuity plans are    We continually improve
failure or     kept under review for all our    workflows and operational
inefficiencies locations.                       efficiencies and provide
in our systems                                  increased capacity and
and                                             investment in capability.
infrastructure
               Our IT infrastructure is subject
               to ongoing review and we conduct
               regular testing of our systems.


Cyber security Sophisticated cyber security     Providing a safe and secure
failure        tools are employed to block      online experience to customers
leading to     external threats and attacks     is potentially differentiating
revenue or     including enhanced, integrated   compared with smaller, less
reputational   security in the new global web   established competitors.
loss           platform.



               A computer incident response
               team has been established
               alongside enhanced internal
               training and review processes.

Legal and      We have exposure to a number of  The increase in environmental
regulatory     countries and their respective   legislation for electronics,
risks          legal compliance requirements    such as the introduction of
               are addressed through a variety  REACH, allows us to provide
               of controls.                     real value to our customers
                                                through our legislative
                                                expertise.