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Record: Directors' reports and accounts (FRAS 368)

Title: Directors' reports and accounts
Date: 1896-1948
Reference: FRAS 368
Former reference: HF 11/4/1  
Physical description: 55 reports, 7 letters, 3 presscuttings, 1 prospectus, 2 application forms, 1 advertisement, 1 balance sheet  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

There is a report every year from the 2nd Annual General Meeting in 1896 to the 54th meeting in 1948.

System of arrangement: Chronological

Record type: Annual reports, Statements of account, Advertisements, Letters (documents), Presscuttings

Function:

Records held within this series:

Title: Directors' report and accounts
Date: 1896-1905
Reference: FRAS 368/1
Former reference: HF 11/4/1  
Physical description: 11 reports, 2 press cuttings and 5 letters  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Supporting documents include extracts from The Drapers Record for 30 April 1898 and 23 May 1903; drafts of letters notifying shareholders of the date and location of the annual general meetings; and letters confirming attendance at the meetings. There are two reports for 1898 as both contain handwritten notes and amendments.

Records held within this series:

Title: Directors' report and accounts
Date: 1906-1915
Reference: FRAS 368/2
Former reference: HF 11/4/1  
Physical description: 11 reports, 2 letters, 1 prospectus, 2 application forms, 1 advertisment, 1 balance sheet, 1 presscutting  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Scope and content:

Supporting documents include a prospectus for issue of additional preference and ordinary shares dated 1909 with an accompanying letter and preference share application formss; an advert for the new D H Evans & Co Ltd store on Oxford Street, London; a balance sheet for 1911; and a presscutting concerning drapery stores. There are two reports for 1915 as both contain handwritten notes and amendments.

Records held within this series:

Title: Directors' report and accounts
Date: 1916-1925
Reference: FRAS 368/3
Former reference: HF 11/4/1  
Physical description: 10 reports  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Records held within this series:

Title: Directors' report and accounts
Date: 1926-1935
Reference: FRAS 368/4
Former reference: HF 11/4/1  
Physical description: 10 reports  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Records held within this series:

Title: Directors' report and accounts
Date: 1936-1948
Reference: FRAS 368/5
Former reference: HF 11/4/1  
Physical description: 13 reports  
Origination D H Evans & Co Ltd

Records related to this series:

Title: Minutes of general meetings of shareholders
Date: 1920-1967
Reference: FRAS 363
Company: D H Evans & Co Ltd    
Connection: A copy of the directors' reports and accounts are pasted alongside the accompanying minutes in the minute book.

Title: Profit and loss accounts and balance sheets
Date: 1928-1937
Reference: FRAS 371
Company: D H Evans & Co Ltd    
Connection: The reports contain summaries of profit and loss accounts and balance sheets in FRAS 371.

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