Issue of Equity
2003年7月2日 - 4:00PM
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UBC Media Group PLC
02 July 2003
UBC Media Group plc
Placing of 3,500,000 ordinary shares and Directors' Shareholdings
The Board of UBC is pleased to announce that they have today placed a total of
3,500,000 new ordinary shares at 29.5p per share to raise an additional
#1,032,500 (before expenses) of working capital for the Company, which
represents 2.26% of the enlarged issued share capital of the Company. In
addition, the Directors of UBC have on 1 July 2003, in aggregate, sold
18,110,000 ordinary shares at 29.5p per share to satisfy institutional demand
for the Company's shares.
In addition, two directors of UBC are exercising options. Matthew Honey is
exercising options to acquire 3,600,000 shares at 1p-1.33p per share. Jennifer
Donald is exercising options to acquire 500,000 shares at 6.4p per share. Both
Matthew Honey and Jennifer Donald are selling sufficient shares to cover the
exercise price and the tax liability arising on exercise of their options.
Details of the Directors' shareholdings following the exercise of options, the
Directors share sales and the placing are shown below.
Director No. of shares Remaining Percentage of
sold Ordinary Shares Issued share
capital
Michael Peacock 1,800,000 9,431,000 6.10
Simon Cole 1,800,000 26,602,884 17.20
Tim Blackmore 7,500,000 20,080,857 12.98
Matt Honey 3,240,000 4,481,429 2.90
John Quinn 675,000 2,850,000 1.84
Keith Harris 800,000 3,700,000 2.39
Jenny Donald 410,000 108,800 0.07
1. *Of the ordinary shares shown as beneficially held by I.M. Peacock, 3,411,000
are registered under the name of J.M. Hayden and R.A. Clifford as trustees
of the I.M. and D.J.I. Peacock Voluntary Settlement.
2. *Of the ordinary shares shown as beneficially held by T.J. Blackmore,
3,481,500 are registered in the name of his wife Margaret Blackmore.
3. *Of the ordinary shares shown as beneficially held by M.A. Honey, 26,000 are
registered in the name of his wife, Shona Paterson.
In addition, Unique Communications Limited have disposed of 1,885,000 shares of
the Company, as a result of which its shareholding in the company is reduced
to 8.95%. The beneficial owner of the shares registered in the name of Unique
Communications is N. E. Edmonds.
The 7,600,000 new ordinary shares issued pursuant to the placing and the
exercise of options are expected to be admitted to trading on AIM on 7 July
2003.
This information is provided by RNS
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