Result of EGM
Trifast PLC
13 October 2005
Issued by Citigate Dewe Rogerson Limited, Birmingham
Date: Thursday 13 October 2005
Immediate Release
NOT FOR RELEASE OR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO THE USA, CANADA, THE REPUBLIC OF
IRELAND, AUSTRALIA OR JAPAN
Trifast plc
Result of Extraordinary General Meeting
The Directors of Trifast plc are pleased to announce that at the Extraordinary
General Meeting held today, the resolutions required to approve the acquisition
of Serco Ryan Limited (the "Acquisition"), to adopt new articles of association
and to grant the required section 80 and 89 authorities (inter alia to implement
the Placing and Open Offer) were duly passed.
The completion of the Acquisition is now subject only to the admission of the
Placing and Open Offer Shares to the Official List and to trading on the London
Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities. The Placing and Open Offer Shares
are expected to be so admitted at 8.00 a.m. on 17 October 2005.
A copy of the document setting out the resolutions has been submitted to the
UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:
Financial Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5HS.
Enquiries:
Trifast plc Citigate Dewe Rogerson
Jim Barker, Chief Executive Fiona Tooley
Stuart Lawson, Group Finance Director Tel: +44(0)121 455 8370
Tel: +44 (0)1825 747200 Mobile: +44 (0)7785 703523
Website: www.trifast.com
N M Rothschild & Sons Limited
Ravi Gupta
Tel: +44 (0)20 7280 5000
Arden Partners Limited
Richard Day
Tel: +44 (0)20 7398 1632
Terms defined in the announcement of the Company on 20 September 2005 bear the
same meaning when used in this announcement.
N M Rothschild & Sons Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United
Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority, is acting exclusively for Trifast
plc in connection with the Acquisition and is neither advising nor treating as a
client any other person and will not be responsible to anyone other than Trifast
plc for providing the protections afforded to clients of N M Rothschild & Sons
Limited nor for providing advice in relation to the Acquisition.
Arden Partners Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom
by the Financial Services Authority, is acting exclusively for Trifast plc in
connection with the Placing and Open Offer. Arden Partners Limited will not be
responsible to anyone other than Trifast plc for providing the protections
offered to clients of Arden Partners Limited nor for providing advice in
relation to the Placing and Open Offer.
Neither the Placing nor the Open Offer is being made, directly or indirectly, in
or into, or by use of the mails, or by any means or instrumentality (including,
without limitation, facsimile transmission, internet, email, telex or telephone)
of interstate or foreign commerce, or of any facility of a national securities
exchange, of the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan or the Republic of
Ireland and neither can be accepted by any such use, means instrumentality or
facility or from within the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan or the
Republic of Ireland.
Neither the Placing nor the Open Offer constitutes an offer of securities for
sale, or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities in the United States and
the new Ordinary Shares to be issued pursuant to the Placing and the Open Offer
have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act
of 1933, or under the laws of any state, district or other jurisdiction of the
United States or of Canada, Australia, Japan or the Republic of Ireland and no
regulatory clearances in respect of new Ordinary Shares have been or will be,
applied for in any jurisdiction. Accordingly, unless an exemption under the US
Securities Act of 1933 or other relevant securities laws is applicable, the new
Ordinary Shares are not being, and may not be offered, sold, resold, delivered
or distributed, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States or Canada,
Australia, Japan or the Republic of Ireland or to, or for the account or benefit
of, any US person or person resident in Canada, Australia, Japan or the Republic
of Ireland.
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