Premier Farnell plc                              
                         ("Premier Farnell" or "the Company")                      

                                  Annual Report 2016                               
                                          and                                      
                           Notice of Annual General Meeting                        

    Premier Farnell plc announces that the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of the
    Company will be held on 14 June 2016 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 31 January 2016
      * 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/investors/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
    Paul Sharma                       Investor Relations           +44 (0) 20 7851
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    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 57)
    Each of the Directors, as listed on pages 38 to 39, 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, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities,
    financial position and profit of the Group taken as a whole; and

    b. the Strategic Report contained in this Annual Report includes a fair review
    of the development and performance of the business and the position of the
    Group together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties it
    faces on pages 16 to 17.

    Appendix B: Risks and uncertainties (pages 16 to 17)
    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 review specific strategic, operational, and financial and
    compliance risks in regular focused forums during the year; SET meetings;
    quarterly functional reviews; major programmes and project reviews; and at
    other key executive management meetings. Further details on our risk management
    and internal control procedures are included on page 53.

    Risks and         Mitigating actions                Opportunities                   
    uncertainties                                                                       
                                                                                        
    Competitive       We have rationalised our          Our major drive has been to     
    pressures         element14 organisation by         build a global online platform  
    increase          globalising our operating model   using IBM's WebSphere which was 
                      and leveraging the efficiencies   completed in calendar Q2 2015/  
                      of the web. Further work is being 16, which has provided greater  
                      undertaken to drive efficiencies  system stability at a global    
                      and save cost following an        scale.                          
                      operational review undertaken                                     
                      with the support of Alvarez &     We have undertaken a set of     
                      Marsal.                           online upgrades that enhance our
                                                        search capabilities and will be 
                                                        simplifying our pricing,        
                                                        particularly with respect to    
                                                        freight services.               
                                                                                        
    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 operating 
                      at addressing the needs of our    performance in the Americas.    
                      customers, including a focus on   We have also invested in        
                      specific segmentation by type of  incremental inventory to support
                      customers and vertical            the Industrial Electronics      
                      industries.                       segment in North America in     
                                                        2015.                           
                                                                                        
    Failure to        In 2015 we launched phase two of  Leveraging our technology       
    leverage our      the element14 Design Centre,      expertise offers significant    
    technology        where customers can buy licences  opportunities in meeting the    
    expertise and     for embedded systems. Since 2014  needs of our component          
    partnerships with we have invested in capability    manufacturer customers but also 
    key suppliers.    through our acquisitions of       in our core engineering customer
                      Embest and AVID, for designing    base.                           
                      and manufacturing  development                                    
                      kits for component manufacturers.                                 
                                                                                        
    Long term         Software and services continues   Environmental and technology    
    evolution of      to play an increasing role. This  trends are sources of           
    the electronic    increases value while             electronics innovation which    
    component         diversifying our business model   underpin sales to our product   
    distribution      away from pure distribution.      development customers.          
    model                                               Through ongoing focus on        
                      The Group takes actions to reduce reducing the environmental      
                      the impact of its business on the impact of doing business, we are
                      environment through carbon        introducing more efficient      
                      emissions and by encouraging      processes and can offer further 
                      recycling, especially of          complementary services to our   
                      packaging. The regional warehouse customers.                      
                      model reduces impact of carbon                                    
                      emissions compared to                                             
                      alternatives.                                                     
                                                                                        
    Delivering our    Cultural change to support our    Our new global structure will   
    new  business     global ways of working has been   facilitate better sharing of    
    model             underpinned by the definition and expertise and resources across  
                      roll out of Leadership Standards. the business globally. It will  
                                                        allow us to enhance the service 
                      Focus on priority improvement     we provide to meet the needs of 
                      programmes and cost efficiency    customers and suppliers across  
                      defined through the recent        regional boundaries.            
                      operational review of the                                         
                      element14 businesses.                                             
                                                                                        
    Recruitment,      We actively measure the retention We seek to actively engage      
    development or    of talent within our organisation employees by focusing on        
    retention of      which provides us with the        customer relationships,         
    talented people   ability to track trends and act   leadership, social              
                      with the appropriate and          responsibility and              
                      necessary actions.                communications.                 
                      Reward schemes are continuously   The new global structure will   
                      evaluated to drive and reward     provide our people with better  
                      performance and ensure retention  ways of working and development 
                      of key talent.                    opportunities.                  
                                                                                        
    Data and content  A dedicated data function has     In order to provide engineers   
    quality inhibit   been established to ensure        with a high level of technical  
    effectiveness of  compliance with internal          support, element14 has around   
    our ecommerce     processes and external            260,000 unique product data     
    strategy          regulations. A data strategy and  sheets, which are downloaded    
                      governance framework has been     more than a half million times  
                      developed to support the          per week.                       
                      information requirements of our                                   
                      strategic programmes.                                             
                                                                                        
    Significant       Business continuity plans are     We continually improve workflows
    failure or        kept under review for all our key and operational efficiencies and
    inefficiencies in locations. There is ongoing       provide increased capacity and  
    our systems and   review of our IT infrastructure   investment in capability.       
    infrastructure    and we conduct regular testing of                                 
                      our systems.                                                      
                                                                                        
    Cyber security    We have implemented sophisticated Providing a safe and secure     
    failure leading   cyber security tools to block     online experience to customers  
    to revenue or     external threats and attacks      is potentially differentiating  
    reputational      including enhanced, integrated    compared to smaller, less       
    loss.             security in the new global web    established competitors.        
                      platform.                                                         
                      A computer incident response team                                 
                      established alongside enhanced                                    
                      internal training and review                                      
                      processes.                                                        
                                                                                        
    Legal and         We have exposure to a number of   The increase in environmental   
    regulatory risks  countries and their respective    legislation for electronics,    
                      legal compliance requirements are such as the introduction of     
                      addressed through a variety of    REACH, allows us to provide real
                      controls.                         value to our customers through  
                                                        our legislative expertise.