NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, JAPAN, OR SOUTH AFRICA, OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE SAME WOULD BE UNLAWFUL.
Speedy Hire Plc
10 July 2009
Result of Rights Issue
Speedy Hire Plc ("Speedy Hire" or "the Company") announces that as at 11.00am on 9 July 2009, being the latest time and date of receipt for acceptance and payment, it had received valid acceptances in respect of 423,657,562 New Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 92.37 % of the total number of New Ordinary Shares offered to Shareholders, pursuant to the Rights Issue announced by the Company on 28 May 2009.
It is expected that the New Ordinary Shares in uncertificated form will be credited to CREST accounts on 10 July 2009 and that definitive share certificates in respect of New Ordinary Shares in certificated form will be dispatched to Shareholders by no later than 17 July 2009. It is expected that the New Ordinary Shares will commence trading fully paid on the London Stock Exchange Plc's main market for listed securities on 10 July 2009.
As disclosed in Part III of the combined circular and prospectus published by the Company in connection with the Rights Issue and sent to Shareholders on 1 June 2009 (the "Prospectus"), Oriel Securities and KBC Peel Hunt will use its reasonable endeavours to procure subscribers for the balance of 35,001,338 New Ordinary Shares not validly taken up under the Rights Issue, on and subject to the terms and conditions agreed with the Company in the Underwriting Agreement. A further announcement as to the number of New Ordinary Shares for which subscribers have been so procured will be made in due course.
Unless otherwise defined in this announcement, capitalised terms shall have the meaning given to them in the Prospectus.
Contacts
For further information please contact:
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Speedy Hire Plc |
Tel: +44(0) 1942 720 000 |
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Steven Corcoran, Chief Executive |
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Justin Read, Group Finance Director |
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Hudson Sandler Nick Lyon / Wendy Baker |
Tel: +44(0) 207 796 4133
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This Announcement is not for release, publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan or South Africa or any other jurisdiction into which the same would be unlawful.
This Announcement does not contain or constitute an offer of, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or subscribe for, securities to any person in Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa or the United States or in any jurisdiction to whom or in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. Subject to certain exceptions, the securities referred to herein may not be offered or sold in Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa or the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, any national, resident or citizen of Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa or the United States. The offer and sale of the securities referred to herein has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or under the applicable securities laws of Australia, Canada, Japan or South Africa. There will be no public offer of securities in the United States. The availability of the Rights Issue to persons not resident in the United Kingdom may be affected by the laws of the relevant jurisdictions. Such persons should inform themselves about and observe any application requirements.
This Announcement is for information only and does not constitute or form part of any offer or invitation to issue, acquire or dispose of any securities or investment advice in any jurisdiction.
This Announcement is an advertisement and not a prospectus and investors should not subscribe for or purchase any New Ordinary Shares referred to in this Announcement in connection with Rights Issue except on the basis of information contained in the Prospectus. Copies of the Prospectus are available from the Company's head office Ashton House, 1 The Parks, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, WA12 0JQ and on the Company's website, www.speedyhire.plc.uk (although, neither the content of the Company's website (or any other website) nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this Announcement.
Oriel Securities, which is authorised and regulated by the FSA in the United Kingdom, is acting exclusively for the Company as Joint Broker, Joint Bookrunner and Joint Underwriter in connection with the Rights Issue and 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 Rights Issue or any other matters referred to in this Announcement.
KBC Peel Hunt, which is authorised and regulated by the FSA in the United Kingdom, is acting exclusively for the Company as Joint Broker, Joint Bookrunner and Joint Underwriter in connection with the Rights Issue and 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 Rights Issue or any other matters referred to in this Announcement.