Admission to AIM

RNS Number : 1246S

Camellia PLC

19 September 2014

 

19 September 2014

Camellia Plc

(the "Company")

Admission to AIM

Further to the announcement on 11 July 2014 and the General Meeting of the Company held on 6 August 2014, the Board of Camellia is pleased to confirm that the Admission of Camellia's Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM occurred at 8.00 a.m. today, 19 September 2014. The Ordinary Shares have been removed from trading on the Main Market and their listing on the Official List has been cancelled.

Disclosures on the Company, as required by AIM Rule 26, can be found at www.camellia.plc.uk/investor-relations.

Except as otherwise defined herein, capitalised terms have the same meanings as set out in the Circular dated 11 July 2014.

Camellia Plc                                                                                                                                                         01622 746655

Malcolm Perkins, Chairman

Anil Mathur, Finance Director

Julia Morton, Company Secretary

Charles Stanley Securities                                                                                                                            020 7149 6000

Nominated Adviser & Broker

Russell Cook

Carl Holmes

Company description:

Camellia Plc (CAM.L) is a global agriculture and horticulture group, whose activities also extend to engineering, food storage and distribution, banking and financial services. The Group employs approximately 75,000 people globally.

The agriculture and horticulture division is engaged in the production of tea, edible nuts (macadamias, pistachios and almonds), citrus fruits, avocado, rubber, forestry, viticulture, cattle, other horticultural produce and general farming (maize and soya). The Group is one of the largest private tea producers world-wide with a total of 65 tea estates and 60 tea factories. The Group's main operations are in India, Bangladesh, Malawi and Kenya, where the tea is grown and produced. It also has notable agricultural operations, other than tea, in Brazil, California, Kenya and South Africa.

The engineering division is engaged in precision engineering, cutting and grinding,   fabrication, heat treatment, galvanising, powder coating and manufacture of stables, etch inspection and catalysts. These businesses are predominately UK based and serve customers in a number of sectors including the offshore oil and gas and aerospace sectors.

The food storage and distribution division is involved in frozen, chilled and ambient temperature food supply chain management providing cold storage, refrigerated transport and production support to several leading UK food manufacturers. It also specialises in frozen imports and distributes seafood products in Europe and supplies food service customers in the Netherlands with fish products.

The banking and financial services division comprises Duncan Lawrie, which provides an integrated suite of banking services, financial planning, investment management and trust and estate advice.

 

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