Issue of Equity and Total Vot

RNS Number : 1515M

Northern Venture Trust PLC

23 January 2009

 

23 January 2009

NORTHERN VENTURE TRUST PLC ('The Company')

Issue of Shares AND TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

The Company announces that on 23 January 2009 it allotted 134,055 ordinary shares of 25p each to shareholders who agreed to subscribe for shares under the terms of the Company's Dividend Investment Scheme.  The subscription price was 78.6p per share.  Following the above allotment, there are 39,267,271 ordinary shares in issue.

Application will be made at the earliest practicable opportunity for these shares, which will rank pari passu with existing ordinary shares, to be admitted to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's market for listed securities.

In conformity with the Transparency Directive, the Company notifies the market that the capital of the Company consists of 39,267,271 ordinary shares with a nominal value of 25p each and 20,612,249 C shares with a nominal value of 75p each. All the shares have voting rights.

The Company does not hold any ordinary shares or C shares in treasury.

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 59,879,520 (the 'Figure').

The Figure may be used by a shareholder or other person as the denominator for the calculations by which he will determine if he is required to notify the voting rights he holds in relation to the Company, or a change to those voting rights, under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Enquiries:

Alastair Conn/Christopher Mellor, NVM Private Equity Limited - 0191 244 6000

Website:  www.nvm.co.uk

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