9 April 2019
Bonhill Group plc
("Bonhill" or the "Company")
Result of Meeting
Total Voting Rights
and
Directors' Participation
Result of Meeting
Further to its announcements of 25 March 2019 ("Announcements"), Bonhill (AIM: BONH), a leading B2B media business specialising in three key areas: Business Information, Live Events and Data & Insight, is pleased to announce that all resolutions put to shareholders at the General Meeting held earlier today were duly passed.
As a result, it is expected that Admission will become effective and that dealings in the 11,904,762 Placing Shares and 2,380,952 Initial Consideration Shares will commence at 8.00 am on 10 April 2019, when it is expected that Completion of the acquisition of Last Word Media will occur.
Total Voting Rights
Immediately following Admission, the Company's issued share capital will comprise 48,585,692 Ordinary Shares. Each Ordinary Share has one voting right. No Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. Accordingly, the total number of voting rights is 48,585,692. The above figure may be used by Shareholders as the denominator for the calculation 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 FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Directors' Participation
Certain Directors of the Company participated in the Placing by subscribing for Placing Shares at the Placing Price and their resulting shareholdings immediately following Admission are detailed below:
Director |
Current shareholding |
% of issued share capital |
No. of Placing Shares |
Shareholding immediately following Admission |
% of Enlarged Share Capital |
Simon Stilwell |
562,500 |
1.64% |
83,500 |
646,000 |
1.33% |
David Brown |
375,000 |
1.09% |
416,666 |
791,666 |
1.63% |
Neil Sachdev |
25,000 |
0.07% |
23,810 |
48,810 |
0.10% |
PDMR |
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Lawrence Gosling |
62,500 |
0.18% |
29,762 |
92,262 |
0.19% |
Capitalised terms in this announcement are as defined in the Announcements.
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014 ("MAR").
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For further enquiries please contact:
Bonhill Group plc |
+44 (0)20 7250 7035 |
Simon Stilwell, Chief Executive David Brown, Group Finance Director
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Stockdale Securities Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) |
+44 (0)20 7601 6100 |
Tom Griffiths David Coaten
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Canaccord Genuity Limited (Joint Broker) Bobbie Hilliam Adam James Georgina McCooke
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+44 (0)20 7523 8000 |
Taurus London (Lead Adviser) |
+44 (0)20 7959 7000 |
Tom Fyson Tom Marriage
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Belvedere Communications (Financial PR) |
+44 (0)20 3687 2757 |
John West Kim van Beeck |
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About Bonhill Group plc
Bonhill Group plc is an AIM-quoted leading B2B media business specialising in three key areas: Business Information, Live Events and Data & Insight in three key sectors: Technology, Financial Services and Diversity. Bonhill's ambition is to create content that informs, communities that engage and brands that inspire in order to enable a better business environment for our sponsors and clients.
Flagship titles include: InvestmentNews, SmallBusiness.co.uk, Growth Company Investor, Information Age, GrowthBusiness.co.uk and What Investment. Bonhill is also responsible for a growing portfolio of high-profile events, including The Quoted Company Awards, Women in IT Awards Global Series, Women in Finance Awards Global Series, British Small Business Awards, Women Advisor Summit, Women to Watch, Diversity & Inclusion Summit and Retirement Income Summit, amongst others.
For more information visit www.bonhillplc.com