1、ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE 53-WEEK PERIOD ENDED APRIL 3,2021The Indigo MissionTo inspire reading and simplify our customers journeys to live with intention.Indigo operates under the following banners:IndigoBooks&Music,Chapters,Coles,Indigospirit,The Book Company,and indigo.ca.The Company employs approxim
2、ately 5,000 people across the country.!ndigo EnrichYour Life,Chapters,!ndigo,Coles and indigo.ca are registered trade marks of Indigo Books&Music Inc.Table of Contents 3.Report of the CEO 6.Managements Responsibility for Financial Reporting 7.Managements Discussion and Analysis 36.Independent Audito
3、rs Report 39.Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes 71.Corporate Governance Policies 72.Executive Management and Board of Directors 73.Five-Year Summary of Financial Information 74.Investor Information 75.Indigos Commitment to Communities Across CanadaAnnual Report 2021 3Report of the CEODear S
4、hareholder,It is my pleasure to be writing to you to with a review of the year just passed,to share the results,and toprovide some perspective on the year ahead.It is almost redundant to note that 2020 will go down in history as a watershed year.A year to rememberand a year which will serve to trans
5、form so much of who we are.Each of us will long remember where we were and how we navigated the year the COVID-19 pandemic stopped the world.For Indigo,as with any customer-facing businesses,the challenges began the first day we were asked to close and continued to come at us,month after month.As I
6、write this note for our Fiscal 2021 AnnualReport,we are well into the first quarter of our new year.At this moment we remain in retail lockdown in several areas of Canada and with business constrained in most areas where our retail stores are open.To put this in clearer context for almost half the y