For Immediate Release 03 December 2012
Eckoh plc
("Eckoh" or the "Company")
Issue of equity
The Company today announces that on 30 November 2012 certain employees of Eckoh have exercised options over 125,973 ordinary shares of 0.25p each in the Company.
Pursuant to the exercise of the options, the Company has made application to the London Stock Exchange for 125,973 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will become effective on 6 December 2012.
Pursuant to the exercise of the options, the Company has allotted 125,973 new Ordinary Shares and now has 208,989,533 Ordinary Shares in issue, each carrying the right to one vote. There are no shares held in Treasury. Shareholders may use the figure of 209,989,533 as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, Eckoh under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
For further enquiries, please contact:
Eckoh plc
Nik Philpot, Chief Executive Officer
Adam Moloney, Group Finance Director Tel: 01442 458 300
Buchanan
Jeremy Garcia,
Gabriella Clinkard Tel: 020 7466 5000
www.buchanan.uk.com
N+1 Singer
Shaun Dobson
Matt Thomas Tel: 0207 496 3000
Notes to Editors:
About Eckoh plc
Eckoh plc (AIM: ECK) is the UK's leading provider of speech recognition and payment solutions across voice, web and mobile channels. We are a PCI DSS Level One accredited Service Provider, currently processing over £250 million in card payments annually.
Eckoh's solutions enable payments, transactions and enquiries to be processed without the caller needing to talk to a contact centre agent. This significantly reduces our clients' costs, whilst freeing up their agents to deal with more complex enquiries. Eckoh is the largest provider of such hosted services in the UK.
Our secure and resilient infrastructure has the scalability to handle up to 8,000 calls simultaneously, which means that calls will always be answered no matter how unpredictable the circumstances.
For more information, visit: www.eckoh.com