Issue of Equity

RNS Number : 7472O

Blue Star Capital plc

16 October 2012

 



16 October 2012

Blue Star Capital plc

("Blue Star Capital" or the "Company")

Issue of Equity

Blue Star Capital announces that in accordance with regular share based payments which were previously notified on 29 June 2011, 25 July 2011, 25 November 2011, 20 January 2012, 18 April 2012, and 5 July 2012, the Chairman, Lord Dear and non executive directors Mr Anthony Fabrizi, Mr Noel Lyons, Mr Peter Varnish and General Sir Michael Wilkes were issued the following shares in the Company (the "New Shares") on 15 October 2012:

Name	Current Shares	New Shares	Total Holding	% Holding
Lord Dear	1,486,152	1,562,500	3,048,652	1.74%
Mr Anthony Fabrizi	882,453	2,343,750	3,226,203	1.84%
Mr Noel Lyons	882,453	1,171,875	2,054,328	1.17%
Mr Peter Varnish	741,605	1,171,875	1,913,480	1.09%
General Sir Michael Wilkes	1,238,949	1,171,875	2,410,824	1.37%

The New Shares will rank pari passu with the ordinary shares already in issue.  Application is being made for the admission to trading of a total of 7,421,875 ordinary shares of 0.1p each to be admitted to trading on AIM and dealings are expected to commence at 8.00am on 19 October 2012.

Following the issue of the New Shares, the Company's voting capital will consist of:

Ordinary Shares	Nominal Value (pence)	GBP	Ordinary Shares held in Treasury
175,442,191	0.1	175,442	-

As the Company does not hold any ordinary shares in Treasury, its total number of voting rights equals its capital. The above figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Contacts:

Blue Star Capital plc	0777 178 2434
Anthony Fabrizi
Daniel Stewart & Company plc Nominated Adviser & Broker	020 7776 6550
David Hart, Corporate Finance
Martin Lampshire, Corporate Broking

 

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