Admission of B Shares

RNS Number : 2602I

De La Rue PLC

17 November 2008

 



De La Rue plc

17 November 2008

17 November 2008

De La Rue plc ('De La Rue' or the 'Company')

RETURN OF CASH - Admission of B Shares to the Official List and to trading on the London Stock Exchange. 

De La Rue is pleased to announce that the Return of Cash is now being implemented. It is expected that the B Shares resulting from the Share Reorganisation will be admitted to the Official List maintained by the Financial Services Authority and will commence trading at 8.00 a.m. today. Further details of the Return of Cash are contained in the circular to shareholders dated 21 October 2008 (the 'Circular'). 

The Company confirms that as at today’s date a total of 96,650,482 New Ordinary Shares of 44^152/175 pence each and 150,774,752 B Shares of 1 penny each will be in issue.

Definitions used in the Circular apply in this announcement. 

Enquiries:

De La Rue [phone]

Leo Quinn, Chief Executive

Stephen King, Finance Director

Gary Williams, Head of Corporate Affairs

Financial Dynamics [phone]

Richard Mountain

Rothschild [phone]  

Crispin Wright

Stuart Vincent

JPMorgan Cazenove [phone]

Michael Wentworth Stanley

Dermot McKechnie 

JPMorgan Cazenove Limited is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom for the conduct of investment business by the Financial Services Authority and is acting exclusively for De La Rue and no-one else in connection with the Return of Cash and will not be responsible to anyone other than De La Rue for providing the protections afforded to clients of JPMorgan Cazenove Limited, or for providing advice in relation to the Return of Cash.

NM Rothschild & Sons Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority, is acting for De La Rue and no one else in connection with the matters referred to in this announcement and will not be responsible to any person other than De La Rue for providing the protections afforded to clients of NM Rothschild & Sons Limited, or for providing advice in relation to the Return of Cash.

 

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