Impact Holdings
(UK) plc
("Impact" or "The Group")
Proposed
Cancellation of Admission, Notice of General Meeting and Update
The Board announces that it proposes to seek Shareholder
approval for the cancellation of admission to trading on AIM of the
Ordinary Shares.
Full details of the proposals are sent out below and will be
contained in a circular to be dispatched to Shareholders later
today.
If Shareholders approve the resolution then cancellation will
become effective from 7.00 am on
8th November 2016. A full
timetable of events is contained at the end of this
announcement.
The Group continues to await a decision from the Supreme Court
hearing which took place on 30th June 2016 as detailed in the Annual Report and
Accounts.
For further information:
Impact Holdings (UK)
plc
Paul Davies, Chief Executive
Officer
Tel: 01928 793550
Zeus Capital
Limited
Andrew Jones/Jamie Peel
Tel: 0161 831 1512
Proposed
Cancellation of Admission
1. Introduction and
Update
The Board announces that, in light of the reasons set out below,
it has decided to seek Shareholder approval for the cancellation of
admission to trading on AIM of the Ordinary Shares.
The Group continues to await a decision from the Supreme Court
hearing which took place on 30th June 2016 as detailed in the Annual Report and
Accounts.
2. Background to and
Reasons for Cancellation of Admission
The Directors and its advisers believe it is in the best
interests of all Shareholders to delist as the shares are
considered illiquid with minimal trades. This coupled with the
burdensome costs of being listed relative to the size of the
business makes it uneconomical to remain listed.
The Directors have therefore undertaken a strategic review with
their advisers and consider a delisting to be prudent and
appropriate.
3. Effect of the
Cancellation
The Board considers that the principal effects of and risks
associated with the Cancellation are:
(i) there would no longer be a formal
market mechanism enabling the Shareholders to trade their shares on
AIM or any other market or tracking exchange and the CREST trading
facility will be cancelled;
(ii) the Company would not be bound to
announce material events or material transactions nor to announce
interim or final results;
(iii) the Company would no longer be required to
comply with any of the additional specific corporate governance
requirements for companies admitted to trading on AIM and Zeus
Capital Limited will cease to be the Company’s Nominated Adviser;
and
(iv) the Company will no longer be subject to the
AIM Rules and Shareholders will no longer be required to vote on
certain matters as provided in the AIM Rules.
The Board will, however, continue to:
(i) post information relating to the
Company on its website at www.impactholdings.net;
(ii) hold general meetings in accordance with
the applicable statutory requirements and the Company's articles of
association; and
(iii) send Shareholders copies of the Company's
audited accounts in accordance with the applicable statutory
requirements.
The provisions of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers will
continue to apply to the Company following the Cancellation for a
period of 10 years from the date of Cancellation.
4. Approving the
Cancellation
Under Rule 41 of the AIM Rules, it is a requirement that the
Company notifies the public of its intention to cancel and
separately to inform the London Stock Exchange of its preferred
cancellation date. In addition, the Cancellation must be approved
by not less than 75 per cent. of the votes cast by the Shareholders
in a General Meeting. If the resolution is approved, it is expected
that the Cancellation will take effect at 7:00 a.m. on 8th November 2016.
5. Irrevocable undertakings and voting in
relation to Impact Holdings (UK) PLC
The Company has received irrevocable undertakings to vote in
favour of the Resolution to be proposed at the General Meeting from
Shareholders holding 1,940,853 Ordinary Shares representing
approximately 74.01 per cent. of the entire issued share capital of
the Company at the time of the proposed General Meeting.
6. Following the Cancellation
Whilst the Board believes that the Cancellation is in the
Shareholders’ interests, it recognises that the Cancellation will
make it more difficult for the Shareholders to buy and sell
Ordinary Shares should they so wish.
The Company is not currently proposing to establish a trading
platform, although a third party may offer such service to
Shareholders and the Board recommends that any Shareholders seeking
to trade Ordinary Shares following Cancellation should directly
contact the Board or other Shareholders to enquire if there are any
parties interested in purchasing such shares. In the event a
trading facility is arranged at some point in the future, details
will be made available to Shareholders on the Company’s website at
www.impactholdings.net.
7. General
Meeting
A General Meeting is to be held at 8.30
a.m. on 31st October
2016 at which the Resolution will be proposed.
8.
Recommendation
For the reasons set out above the Directors consider that the
Cancellation is in the best interests of the Company and its
Shareholders as a whole. Accordingly, the Directors unanimously
recommend Shareholders to vote in favour of the Resolution as they
intend to do (and have provided irrevocable undertakings to do so)
in respect of their shareholding of 1,080,602 Ordinary
Shares, representing approximately 41.21 per cent. of the
entire issued share capital of the Company.
TIMETABLE
2016
Dispatch of this
document
|
5th October |
Latest date and time for receipt of
Forms of Proxy |
12 noon on
29th October |
General Meeting |
8.30 a.m. on
31st October |
Expected date of cancellation of
Ordinary
Shares from Admission |
7:00 a.m. on
8th November |
DEFINITIONS
|
|
“Act” |
the Companies Act
2006 |
"Admission" |
the admission of the
Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM |
"AIM" |
a market operated by
London Stock Exchange plc |
"AIM Rules" |
the AIM Rules for
Companies published by the London Stock Exchange from time to time
(including, without limitation, any guidance notes or statements of
practice) which govern the rules and responsibilities of companies
whose shares are admitted to trading on AIM |
"Board" |
the board of directors
of the Company at the date of this document |
"Cancellation" |
the proposed
cancellation of the Company's Ordinary Shares from admission to
trading on AIM, subject to the passing of the Resolution |
"Company" or "Impact" |
Impact Holdings (UK)
PLC |
"CREST" |
the computer based
system established under the Uncertificated Securities Regulations
2001 (SI 2001 No. 3755) which enables title to units of relevant
securities to be evidenced and transferred without a written
instrument and in respect of which Euroclear UK & Ireland is
the operator |
"Directors" |
the directors of the
Company |
"General Meeting" or " GM" |
the extraordinary
general meeting of the Company, convened for 8.30 am on
31st October 2016, and any adjournment thereof, notice
of which is set out at the end of this document, which will
consider the Resolutions |
“Group” |
Impact Holdings (UK)
PLC and it subsidiaries |
"Form of Proxy" |
the Form of Proxy for
use by Shareholders in connection with the GM |
|
|
"Ordinary Shares"
|
ordinary shares of 50p
each in the capital of the Company |
"Resolution" |
the special resolution
to be proposed at the General Meeting |
"RIS" |
Regulatory Information
Service |
"Shareholders" |
holders of Ordinary
Shares and "Shareholder" means any one of them |
|
|
"UK" |
the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland |