Issue of Equity

RNS Number : 8920L

NCC Group PLC

30 April 2015

 

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Issue of equity

NCC Group plc ("NCC Group") confirms that, pursuant to the announcement by Accumuli plc ("Accumuli") earlier today that the scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006 to effect the recommended acquisition of Accumuli by NCC Group has become effective, NCC Group has made applications to the UK Listing Authority ("UKLA") and London Stock Exchange plc ("London Stock Exchange") for 20,389,472 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the capital of NCC Group (the "New Ordinary Shares") to be admitted to the premium listing segment of the Official List of the UKLA and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities. It is expected that the admission of these New Ordinary Shares will become effective, and that dealings on the London Stock Exchange will commence, on 1 May 2015.

Following the issuance of these New Ordinary Shares, NCC Group will have 229,076,580 ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") with voting rights in issue (excluding treasury shares) and 238,186 treasury shares.

The above figure of 229,076,580 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders in NCC Group 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 share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information, please contact:

Enquiries:

NCC Group
Rob Cotton, CEO Atul Patel, Finance Director	Tel: [phone]
Peel Hunt LLP (financial adviser and broker to NCC Group)
Charlie Batten / Richard Brown / Dan Webster	Tel: [phone]
Rickitt Mitchell & Partners Limited (financial adviser to NCC Group)
Stuart Moss / Alex Wilson	Tel: [phone]
Instinctif Partners (PR to NCC Group) Adrian Duffield / Lauren Foster / Chantal Woolcock	Tel: [phone]

IMPORTANT NOTES

Cautionary note regarding forward-looking statements

This Announcement contains certain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate only to historical or current facts. Forward-looking statements often use words such as 'anticipate', 'target', 'expect', 'estimate', 'intend', 'plan', 'goal', 'believe', 'hope', 'aims', 'continue', 'will', 'may', 'should', 'would', 'could' or other words of similar meaning. These statements are based on assumptions and assessments made by the Board of NCC Group in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors it believes are appropriate. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty and the factors described in the context of such forward-looking statements in this Announcement could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements.

Although it is believed that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, no assurance can be given that such expectations will prove to have been correct and persons reading this Announcement are therefore cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements which speak only as at the date of this Announcement. NCC Group assumes no obligation to update or correct the information contained in this Announcement (whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise), except as required by applicable law.

 

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