Mercury Group PLC
02 May 2008
2 May 2008
Mercury Group plc
('Mercury' or the 'Company')
Results of Meetings
Mercury announces that at the annual general meeting and the general meeting of
the Company held yesterday, all resolutions were duly passed, including the
resolution to effect a capital reorganisation on the following basis:
(a) the 117,525,684 ordinary shares of 1p each in the capital of
the Company ('Existing Ordinary Shares') be and are hereby consolidated into new
ordinary shares of £6 each in the capital of the Company ('Consolidated Ordinary
Shares') on the basis of one Consolidated Ordinary Share for every 600 Existing
Ordinary Shares. All Consolidated Ordinary Shares held in fractions as a result
of such consolidation shall be sold and the proceeds retained for the benefit of
the Company;
(b) each of the Consolidated Ordinary Shares in the capital of the
Company be and are hereby subdivided into 60 new ordinary shares of 10p each in
the capital of the Company ('Subdivided Ordinary Shares');
(c) the Subdivided Ordinary Shares shall be divided into new
ordinary shares of 1p each in the capital of the Company ('New Ordinary Shares')
and deferred shares of 9p each in the capital of the Company ('Deferred Shares')
on the basis of one New Ordinary Share and one Deferred Share for each
Subdivided Ordinary Share; and
(d) all of the existing authorised but unissued deferred shares of
0.1p be and are hereby cancelled and the amount of the Company's share capital
shall be diminished by the amount of the shares so cancelled.
Following the capital reorganisation, the Company will have 11,752,560 voting
New Ordinary Shares in issue.
In addition, the resolution relating to the cancellation of admission to trading
in the New Ordinary Shares on AIM, as announced on 31 March 2008, was passed.
The proposed delisting is expected to take place at 7:00am on 30 May 2008.
Enquiries:
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|Mercury Group Plc | 020 7343 4000|
|George Kynoch - Chairman | |
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|John East & Partners Limited | 020 7628 2200|
|David Worlidge | |
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