Macfarlane Group PLC Result of Oversubscribed Placing (0514R)

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RNS Number : 0514R

Macfarlane Group PLC

18 September 2017

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18 September 2017

MACFARLANE GROUP PLC

("Macfarlane" or the "Company")

Result of Oversubscribed Placing

Following the earlier announcement this morning that Macfarlane has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire Greenwoods and is conditionally raising GBP8 million through a placing of new ordinary shares in the Company, Macfarlane is pleased to announce the completion of an oversubscribed Placing.

A total of 12,121,212 Placing Shares have been placed at a Placing Price of 66 pence per Placing Share (the "Placing Price"), representing a discount of approximately 1.1 per cent. to the closing price on 15 September 2017, being the last practicable date before this announcement.

Based on the Placing Price, the gross proceeds of the Placing are GBP8 million. The Placing Shares and the Vendor Shares will represent approximately 13.5 per cent. of the enlarged issued ordinary share capital of the Company.

Application will be made to the UKLA and the London Stock Exchange for the Placing Shares and Vendor Shares, a total of 21,212,121 Ordinary Shares, to be admitted to the Official List and to trading on the Main Market ("Admission").

It is expected that Admission will become effective and that dealings for normal settlement in the Placing Shares and Vendor Shares on the Main Market will commence at 8.00 a.m. on 21 September 2017.

Related party transactions

The Company has today been notified that the following substantial shareholders of the Company have agreed to acquire Placing Shares pursuant to the terms of the Placing at the Placing Price. Following Admission, their beneficial interests will be as follows:

 
 Shareholder                No. of Placing         Resulting        % of enlarged 
                            Shares acquired     holding following    issued voting 
                                pursuant            Admission        share capital 
                              to the terms 
                             of the Placing 
                             and aggregate 
                                value at 
                             Placing Price 
 Rights & Issues 
  Investment Trust              508,632 
  plc ("Rights 
  & Issues")                   GBP335,697          17,250,000           10.95% 
 
 Hargreave Hale                 833,333 
  Limited ("Hargreave")        GBP550,000          16,176,002           10.27% 
 
 Miton Asset 
  Management Limited           1,212,121 
  ("Miton")                    GBP800,000          16,427,358           10.43% 
 

The Placing is deemed to be a related party transaction as described in the Listing Rules. As the participation of Rights & Issues, Hargreave and Miton in the Placing is less than 5% under the relevant class tests in the Listing Rules, shareholder approval is not required under Listing Rule 11.

However the transaction falls within Listing Rule 11.1.10R and as such the Company is required to obtain from Arden as Sponsor to the Company confirmation the terms of the proposed transaction or arrangement with the related party are fair and reasonable as far as the shareholders of the Company (the "Shareholders") are concerned.

The Directors, who have consulted with Arden in its capacity as Financial Adviser and Sponsor to the Company, consider the Placing to be fair and reasonable insofar as Shareholders are concerned and to be in the best interests of the Company and its Shareholders as a whole.

Total voting rights

Post completion of the Acquisition, and the issue of the Placing Shares and Vendor Shares Macfarlane will have 157,547,618 Ordinary Shares in issue. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, on that basis, the total number of ordinary shares and voting rights in the Company will be 157,547,618 post Admission.

The above figure may be used by shareholders in the Company 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 share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

All terms in this announcement have the meaning given to them in the announcement made by the Company at 7 a.m. on 18 September 2017 unless otherwise defined herein.

 
 Further       Macfarlane Group                     Tel: 0141 
  enquiries:                                         333 9666 
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               Graeme Bissett     Chairman 
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               Peter Atkinson     Chief Executive 
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               John Love          Finance 
                                   Director 
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               Arden Partners                       Tel: 0207 
                                                     614 5900 
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               Steve Douglas      Corporate 
                / Ciaran Walsh     Finance 
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               Matt Groves        Corporate 
                                   Broking 
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               Spreng Thomson                       Tel: 0141 
                                                     548 5191 
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               Callum Spreng                        Mob: 07803 
                                                     970103 
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