Bilby PLC Spokemead Maintenance Limited Consideration (0037S)

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RNS Number : 0037S

Bilby PLC

27 September 2017

27 September 2017

Bilby Plc

("Bilby" or the "Company")

Spokemead Maintenance Limited Consideration

Bilby Plc (AIM: BILB.L), the holding company for P&R Installation Company Limited, Purdy Contracts Limited, Spokemead Maintenance Limited (Spokemead), and DCB (Kent) Limited, a leading gas heating and building services provider, confirms pursuant to the 'earn out' terms of the acquisition of Spokemead, as announced on 24 March 2016, Spokemead has satisfied the performance criteria in respect of the year ending 30 June 2017and accordingly the Company will settle deferred consideration of GBP497,115 .

The Company will pay Spokemead GBP250,000 from its cash reserves, with the balance of GBP247,115 being settled via the issue of the Company's ordinary shares of 10p ("Ordinary Shares"). Bilby will therefore issue 393,183 Ordinary Shares to the vendors of Spokemead at an issue price of 62.85p per Ordinary Share (the "Spokemead Consideration Shares").

Application has been made for the Spokemead Consideration Shares, which will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares, to be admitted to trading on AIM and it is expected that this will take place on or around 28 September 2017 ("Admission").

Following the Admission of the Spokemead Consideration Shares, Bilby will have 40,290,027 Ordinary Shares in issue which will also represent the total number of voting rights in the Company. The above figure should be used by shareholders 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 Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014.

Enquiries

Bilby Plc 020 8269 3777

Phil Copolo, Deputy Executive Chairman

Sangita Shah, Non-Executive Chairman

David Ellingham, Finance Director

Northland Capital Partners 020 3861 6625

(Nominated Adviser and Broker)

Corporate Finance:

David Hignell

Matthew Johnson

Patrick Claridge

Sales and Broking:

Bob Pountney

John Howes

Hudson Sandler 020 7796 4133

(Financial PR)

Charlie Jack

Emily Dillon

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