Chelverton Small Companies Dividend Trust PLC
LEI: 213800DAF47EJ2HT4P78
Issue of Ordinary Shares
The Directors of Chelverton Small Companies Dividend Trust PLC (the "Company") are pleased to announce the issue of 100,000 Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") from its block listing authority of 29 January 2018 at a price of 253 pence per share. These shares rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares in issue. The Ordinary Shares were issued at a premium to the last published net asset value per Ordinary Share.
Following this issue the Company has the ability to issue a further 28,907,828 Ordinary Shares under its block listing facility.
As a result of this issuance the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue now stands at 20,850,000 and the total number of voting rights in the Company is 20,850,000. There are no shares held in treasury.
The above figure may be used by shareholders 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 Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Terms used and not defined in this announcement bear the meaning given to them in the Prospectus dated 24 November 2017.
For further information please contact:
Chelverton Small Companies Dividend Trust PLC
William van Heesewijk
Chelverton Asset Management
+44 20 7222 8989
Stockdale Securities Limited
Robert Finlay / Owen Matthews
+44 20 7601 6115