Admission Announcement

RNS Number : 9304C

Premier Foods plc

24 March 2014

 



THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, JAPAN OR NEW ZEALAND AND SHOULD NOT BE DISTRIBUTED IN, FORWARDED TO OR TRANSMITTED IN OR INTO ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO MIGHT CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF LOCAL SECURITIES LAWS OR REGULATIONS.

24 March 2014

Premier Foods plc (the "Company")

Admission of 76,923,077 Placing Shares

Admission of 506,835,545 Nil Paid Rights

Further to the announcement on 20 March 2014 of the results of its General Meeting, the Company confirms that, pursuant to the Placing and the Rights Issue announced on 4 March 2014, 76,923,077 Placing Shares of £0.10 each and Nil Paid Rights to subscribe for 506,835,545 New Ordinary Shares of £0.10 each will be admitted to listing on the premium segment of the Official List of the UKLA and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities at 8.00 a.m. on 24 March 2014.

Enquiries

Premier Foods plc
Alastair Murray, Chief Financial Officer	[phone]
Richard Godden, Head of Investor Relations	[phone]
Richard Johnson, Group Corporate Affairs Director	[phone]
Maitland
Liz Morley	[phone]
Tom Eckersley
Jefferies International Limited	[phone]
Paul Nicholls
Neil Collingridge
Lee Morton
Credit Suisse	[phone]
Ian Carnegie-Brown
Stuart Field
Kaan Kesedar
HSBC	[phone]
Nick Donald
Stuart Dickson
James Horsburgh

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IMPORTANT NOTICE

This announcement is an advertisement and not a prospectus. The Prospectus was published on 4 March 2014. Nothing in this announcement should be interpreted as a term or condition of the Placing or the Rights Issue. Investors should not subscribe for or purchase, sell or dispose of any New Ordinary Shares, the Provisional Allotment Letters, the Nil Paid Rights or the Fully Paid Rights in the Company except on the basis of information in the Prospectus published by the Company in connection with the Placing and the Rights Issue.

Capitalised terms defined in the Prospectus and Circular dated 4 March 2014 shall have the same meaning when used in this announcement.

This announcement is for information purposes only and does not constitute or form part of any offer or invitation to purchase otherwise acquire or subscribe for, sell or otherwise dispose of or issue, or any solicitation of any offer or invitation to purchase, otherwise acquire or subscribe for, sell or otherwise dispose of or issue securities in the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan or New Zealand or any other jurisdiction.

This announcement and the information contained in it does not constitute or form part of any offer for sale of securities, nor a solicitation to purchase or subscribe for securities in the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan or New Zealand or any other jurisdiction.

The Prospectus has been published and is available on the Company's website at www.premierfoods.co.uk provided that the Prospectus is not available (whether through the website or otherwise) to Shareholders in Excluded Territories subject to certain exceptions with respect to the United States and Canada. The Prospectus provided further details of the Placing and Rights Issue. The Prospectus is not for distribution in the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan or New Zealand.

Each of Credit Suisse, Jefferies, HSBC, BNP Paribas, Barclays, Investec, Shore Capital and Ondra Partners are acting for the Company and no one else in connection with the Placing and Rights Issue and will not regard any other person as a client in relation to the Placing and Rights Issue and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to its clients or for providing advice in relation to the Placing or the Rights Issue or any matters referred to in this announcement.

Apart from the responsibilities and liabilities, if any, which may be imposed on Credit Suisse, Jefferies, HSBC, BNP Paribas, Barclays, Investec, Shore Capital and Ondra Partners by FSMA or the regulatory regime established thereunder or under US securities law or other law, Credit Suisse, Jefferies, HSBC, BNP Paribas, Barclays, Investec, Shore Capital and Ondra Partners accept no responsibility whatsoever for, or regarding the legality of any investment in, nor make any representation or warranty, express or implied, in relation to, the contents of this document, including its accuracy, completeness or verification of for any other statement made or purported to be made by it, or on its behalf, in connection with Premier Foods plc, the Placing Shares, the Nil Paid Rights, the Fully Paid Rights, the New Ordinary Shares, the Provisional Allotment Letters, the Placing or the Rights Issue. Credit Suisse, Jefferies, HSBC, BNP Paribas, Barclays, Investec, Shore Capital and Ondra Partners accordingly disclaim all and any responsibility or liability whether in tort, contract or otherwise (save as referred to above) which they might otherwise have in respect of this document or any such statement.

None of the securities referred to in this announcement, nor the Provisional Allotment Letters, have been, and will not be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and may not be offered or sold in the United States (including its territories and possessions, any state of the United States and the District of Columbia) absent registration or pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act. The Company does not intend to register any part of the Placing or the Rights Issue in the United States or to conduct a public offering of securities in the United States. Any offering of securities will be made by means of the Prospectus which may be obtained from the Company and contains detailed information about the Company and management as well as financial statements. No money, securities or other consideration is being solicited and, if sent in response to the information contained herein, will not be accepted.

None of the securities referred to in this announcement, nor the Provisional Allotment Letters, have been, and will not be, registered under the securities laws of any Excluded Territory and may not be offered, sold, taken up, exercised, resold, transferred or delivered, directly or indirectly, within the Excluded Territories except pursuant to an applicable exemption from registration and in compliance with any applicable securities laws. There will be no public offer of any of the securities referred to in this announcement in any of the Excluded Territories.

The contents of the websites of the Company do not form part of this announcement.

The contents of this announcement are not to be construed as legal, business or tax advice. Each prospective investor should consult his or its own legal adviser, financial adviser or tax adviser for legal, financial or tax advice.

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