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DOCUMENT AND ANY ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS ARE IMPORTANT AND REQUIRE YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. If you are in any doubt as to the action you should take, you are recommended to seek your own financial advice immediately and should consult your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other appropriate professional independent adviser authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (“FSMA”) immediately, if you are in the United Kingdom, or from another appropriately authorised independent professional adviser, if you are taking advice in a territory outside the United Kingdom. If you sell or transfer or have sold or otherwise transferred all of your Travis Perkins Shares, please send this document, together with the other accompanying documents, at once to the purchaser or transferee, or to the stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser or transferee. However, such documents should not be forwarded, distributed or transmitted in or into any jurisdiction in which such act would constitute a violation of the relevant laws in such jurisdiction. If you have sold part of your holding of shares in Travis Perkins plc (“Travis Perkins” or the “Company”), please retain this document and the other accompanying documents and contact immediately the bank, stockbroker or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected. Travis Perkins plc (Incorporated in England and Wales with registered number 824821) Proposed demerger of the Wickes Group from the Travis Perkins Group and the Travis Perkins Share Consolidation Circular to Shareholders and Notice of General Meeting This document should be read as a whole. Your attention is drawn to the letter from the Chairman of Travis Perkins which is set out in Part II: “Letter from the Chairman of Travis Perkins plc” of this document and which recommends you to vote in favour of the Resolutions to be proposed at the General Meeting referred to below. Notice of a General Meeting of Travis Perkins to be held at Ryehill House, Rye Hill Close, Lodge Farm Industrial Estate, Northampton NN5 7UA at 10.45 a.m. or, if later, at the time which is immediately after the 2021 annual general meeting convened for the same place and day shall have been concluded or adjourned on 27 April 2021 is set out at the end of this document. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, we have to insist on non-attendance by shareholders (or any proxies or corporate representatives) at the General Meeting venue and we request that they do not travel to the venue on the day. You will be able to attend the General Meeting via the live webcast which will be broadcast from Travis Perkins’ offices in Northampton by our partner Lumi. You will need to use Lumi’s web platform to access the webcast at https://web.lumiagm.com. Full details of how to access the General Meeting via Lumi’s platform are set out on page 96. There are a variety of ways for you to register your vote. You can register your proxy vote electronically by logging on to www.travisperkins-shares.com; or you can download, complete and return a paper Proxy Form from Travis Perkins’ website at www.travisperkinsplc.co.uk (or request a copy from Travis Perkins’ Registrar, Link Group). A Proxy Form must be completed, signed and returned so as to be received by Travis Perkins’ Registrar as soon as possible but, in any event, so as to arrive no later than 10.45 a.m. on 23 April 2021. In addition, CREST members may use the CREST electronic proxy appointment service and institutional investors may use the Proxymity platform to appoint a proxy electronically, details of which are set out in Notes 4 and 5 respectively of the Notice of General Meeting set out at the end of this document. Submission of a Proxy Form will not prevent members from attending via the webcast and voting at the General Meeting itself via the Lumi platform should they wish to do so. Applications will be made to the FCA for all of the ordinary shares of Wickes Group plc (the “Wickes Shares”) to be admitted to the premium listing segment of the Official List of the FCA (the “Official List”) and to trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange plc (the “London Stock Exchange”) for listed securities (together, “Admission”). It is expected that Admission will become effective, and that dealings in the Wickes Shares will commence, at 8.00 a.m. (London time) on 28 April 2021. No application is currently intended to be made for the Wickes Shares to be admitted to listing or dealing on any other exchange. Applications will also be made to the FCA for all of the New Travis Perkins Shares arising from the Travis Perkins Share Consolidation to be admitted to the premium listing segment of the Official List and to trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange for listed securities (together, the “Travis Perkins Admission”). It is expected that such admission to listing will become effective, and that dealings in the New Travis Perkins Shares will commence, at 8.00 a.m. on 29 April 2021. For a discussion of certain risk factors which should be taken into account when considering what action you should take in connection with the General Meeting, please see Part IV: “Risk Factors” of this document. Citigroup Global Markets Limited (“Citi”) is authorised in the United Kingdom by the Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) and regulated in the United Kingdom by the PRA and the FCA. Citi is acting as financial adviser and sponsor exclusively for the Company and Wickes Group plc (“Wickes”) and for no one else in connection with the Demerger, Admission, Travis Perkins Admission or any other matters referred to in this document and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company and Wickes for providing the protections afforded to clients of Citi nor for providing advice in connection with the Demerger, Admission, Travis Perkins Admission, or any other matters referred to in this document. Neither Citi nor any of its affiliates, directors or employees owes or accepts any duty, liability or responsibility whatsoever (whether direct or indirect, consequential, whether in contract, in tort, in delict, under statute or otherwise) to any person who is not a client of Citi in connection with the Demerger, Admission, Travis Perkins Admission, this document, any statement contained herein, or otherwise. Apart from the responsibilities and liabilities, if any, which may be imposed on Citi by FSMA or the regulatory regime established thereunder or under the regulatory regime of any other applicable jurisdiction where exclusion of liability under the relevant regulatory regime would be illegal, void or unenforceable, neither Citi nor any of its affiliates, directors, officers, employees or advisers accepts any responsibility whatsoever for the contents of this document, including its accuracy, completeness and verification, or for any other statement made or purported to be made by it, or on its behalf, in connection with the Company or its subsidiaries, Wickes Shares, New Travis Perkins Shares, or the Demerger, Admission or Travis Perkins Admission. Citi and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees or advisers accordingly disclaim, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, all and any liability whether arising in tort, contract or otherwise (save as referred to above) which they might otherwise be found to have in respect of this document or any such statement. No representation or warranty, express or implied, is made by Citi or any of its affiliates, directors, officers, employees or advisers as to the accuracy, completeness, verification or sufficiency of the information set out in this document, and nothing in this document will be relied upon as a promise or representation in this respect, whether to the past or future. Deutsche Bank AG is a joint stock corporation incorporated with limited liability in the Federal Republic of Germany, with its head office in Frankfurt am Main where it is registered in the Commercial Register of the District Court under number HRB 30 000. Deutsche Bank AG is authorised under German banking law. The London branch of Deutsche Bank AG is registered in the register of companies for England and Wales (registration number BR000005) with its registered address and principal place of business at Winchester House, 1 Great Winchester Street, London EC2N 2DB. Deutsche Bank AG is authorised and regulated by the European Central Bank and the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). With respect to activities undertaken in the UK, Deutsche Bank AG is authorised by the PRA with deemed variation of permission. It is subject to regulation by the FCA and limited regulation by the PRA. Details about the Temporary Permissions Regime, which allows EEA-based firms to operate in the UK for a limited period while seeking full authorisation, are available on the FCA’s website. In connection with the Demerger, Admission and Travis Perkins Admission, Deutsche Bank AG is acting through its London branch (“Deutsche Bank” and, together with Citi, the “Joint Sponsors”). Deutsche Bank is acting as financial adviser and sponsor exclusively for the Company and Wickes and no one else in connection with the Demerger, Admission and Travis Perkins Admission, and Deutsche Bank will not regard any other person (whether or not a recipient of this document) as a client in relation to the Demerger, Admission or Travis Perkins Admission and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to its clients or for providing advice in relation to the Demerger, Admission or Travis Perkins Admission or any other transaction, matter or arrangement referred to in this document.