AA Plc

AA Intermediate Co Limited Interim results for the six months ended 31 July 2017

In compliance with the requirements of AA Intermediate Co Limited's ('AA Intermediate Co') Class A and Class B notes, interim results for AA Intermediate Co have been issued to the Irish Stock Exchange. The results are also available on the AA plc website at www.theaaplc.com.

AA Intermediate Co Limited is the parent company of the companies that provide security and guarantees under the Whole Business Securitisation ('WBS') financing arrangements entered into by the AA on 2 July 2013. 

AA Intermediate Co Limited's results differ from the results of AA plc that were announced on 26 September 2017.

The material differences relate to the consolidated assets and liabilities as follows:

1.   Inter‐company balances, which were £1,192m lower for AA plc than for AA Intermediate Co as all non-trading balances were eliminated in AA plc as part of the 2013 financing transaction;

2.   Cash balances, which were £58m higher for AA plc than for AA Intermediate Co as £18m of restricted cash was held at AA plc level for the AA plc group's Insurance Underwriting activities and £40m of available cash was held mainly to pay the interim dividend to AA plc shareholders.

3.   Additional working capital and provision balances are held at AA plc level for the AA plc group's Insurance Underwriting activities.  These include £28m for reinsurers share of insurance liabilities, £22m of provisions for unearned premiums and £19m of insurance technical provisions. 

AA plc's Insurance Underwriting activities sit outside the AA Intermediate Co group.  Other than these activities there are only immaterial differences between Trading Revenue and Trading EBITDA for the two groups.  The remaining trading performance is therefore substantially comparable. 

Enquiries

IR

Jill Sherrat , Head of Investor Relations +44 20 7395 7301

Zeeshan Maqbool, Investor Relations Manager +44 20 7395 7443

Media

Francesca Tuckett , Headland +44 20 3805 4822