Aggreko PLC TOKYO 2020 OLYMPICS UPDATE (4072H)

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Aggreko PLC

24 March 2020

AGGREKO PLC

24 MARCH 2020

TOKYO 2020 OLYMPICS UPDATE

Aggreko plc notes the recent announcement by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (TOCOG) postponing the 2020 Tokyo Olympic & Paralympic Games (the Games) until a date beyond 2020, but not later than summer 2021. Following this decision, we will now enter detailed discussions with our client, TOCOG, regarding our role in supporting the Games to a later timetable. While we have a contract that provides a framework for these discussions, the commercial terms and operational impact surrounding the postponement will need to be worked through in detail with TOCOG. As a reminder, the initial contract value was c.$200 million although, as we confirmed at the time of our results announcement on 3 March, following various scope changes we expected the contract value to increase to around $250 million. At this point, we have received $98 million in milestone payments under the contract.

As noted in our announcement of 23 March, we are in a strong financial position. We have considered a range of scenarios to stress-test the Group's liquidity position through to the end of this year, including the situation in which the Games do not take place this year. These show that even in a reasonably probable worst case scenario, with appropriate mitigating actions, we expect to remain within the Group's financial covenants, while maintaining headroom under our existing committed facilities.

A short conference call will be held today for investors and analysts at 15:00 (GMT) hosted by Chris Weston, CEO; dial-in details are below.

 
 Enquiries 
 
 Investors and analysts 
 Louise Bryant, Aggreko plc      [phone] 
 Richard Foster, Aggreko plc     [phone] 
 Financial media 
 Andy Rivett-Carnac, Headland    [phone] 
 Sophie O'Donoghue, Headland     [phone] 
 
 Conference call 
 

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