NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, JAPAN, NEW ZEALAND OR SOUTH AFRICA OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE RELEVANT LAWS OF SUCH JURISDICTION.
TRAVIS PERKINS PLC - PUBLICATION OF PROSPECTUS AND CIRCULAR
11 May 2009
Further to the announcement today regarding a fully underwritten rights issue to raise gross proceeds of approximately £314 million (approximately £300 million net of expenses) by the issue of 85,903,379 new shares (the 'Rights Issue'), Travis Perkins plc ('Travis Perkins') announces that a prospectus relating to the Rights Issue (the 'Prospectus') was approved by the UK Listing Authority (the 'UKLA') on 11 May 2009.
A circular to shareholders relating to the Rights Issue (the 'Circular'), including a notice convening an extraordinary general meeting of Travis Perkins to be held on Friday 27 May 2009 at 11.00 a.m. at the offices of Linklaters LLP, One Silk Street, London EC2Y 8HQ, will be posted to shareholders today. Copies of the Circular will also be available on the Travis Perkins website at www.travisperkinsplc.com.
Copies of the Prospectus will be available at the registered office of Travis Perkins at Lodge Way House, Lodge Way, Harlestone Road, Northampton NN5 7UG and on the Travis Perkins website at www.travisperkinsplc.com.
Both the Circular and the Prospectus will shortly be available for inspection at the UKLA's Document Viewing Facility which is situated at:
Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London E14 5HS
Andrew Pike
Company Secretary
This announcement is an advertisement. It is not a prospectus and investors should not subscribe for or purchase any shares referred to in this announcement except on the basis of information in the Prospectus and Circular. This announcement does not constitute or form part of any offer or invitation to sell or issue, or any solicitation of any offer to acquire, any securities (including nil paid rights, fully paid rights or new shares) offered by any person in any jurisdiction in which such an offer or solicitation is unlawful.
Neither the content of Travis Perkins' website nor any website accessible by hyperlinks on Travis Perkins' website is incorporated in, or forms part of, this announcement.
This announcement and the information contained herein do not contain or constitute an offer for sale or the solicitation of an offer to purchase securities in the United States. The nil paid rights, the fully paid rights and the new shares referred to herein have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the 'Securities Act'), and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under the Securities Act or an available exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act. There will be no public offer of the nil paid rights, the fully paid rights or the new shares in the United States.
This announcement and the information contained herein do not contain or constitute an offer for sale or the solicitation of an offer to purchase securities in Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa, New Zealand or any other jurisdiction where to do so would constitute a violation of the relevant laws of such jurisdiction, and no public offer of rights or shares will be made in such jurisdictions. The nil paid rights, the fully paid rights and the new shares have not been and will not be registered under the securities laws of such jurisdictions and may not be offered, sold, taken up, exercised, resold, renounced, transferred or delivered, directly or indirectly, within such jurisdictions except pursuant to an exemption from and in compliance with any applicable securities laws.
The distribution of this announcement and/or the Prospectus and/or any other materials published in connection with the Rights Issue and/or the transfer of the nil paid rights, fully paid rights and/or new shares into jurisdictions other than the UK may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession this announcement comes should inform themselves about and observe any such restrictions. Any failure to comply with these restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.