Result of Open Offer
20/12/2001 1:00pm
UK Regulatory
RNS Number:0353P
Vocalis Group PLC
20 December 2001
NOT FOR RELEASE IN OR INTO THE US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA OR THE REPUBLIC OF
IRELAND
Vocalis Group plc ("Vocalis" or the "Group")
Result of Open Offer
The Board of Vocalis announces that the Open Offer to Qualifying Shareholders,
announced on 28 November 2001, closed at 3.00 p.m. yesterday, Wednesday 19
December 2001. Valid applications in respect of 24,177,902 Open Offer Shares
(representing 53.1 per cent. of the Open Offer Shares) have been received from
Qualifying Shareholders. The balance of 21,343,813 Open Offer Shares will
accordingly be taken up by institutional and other investors with whom they
were originally placed subject to clawback.
The Open Offer remains conditional upon the passing of the resolutions to be
proposed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company to be held at
10.00 a.m. tomorrow, Friday, 21 December 2001 and upon admission of the New
Ordinary Shares to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to
trading on the London Stock Exchange's market for listed securities, which is
expected to take place on Friday, 28 December 2001.
On Admission, the interests of the Directors will be as follows:
Name Number of Ordinary Percentage of Enlarged Issued Share
Shares Capital
Kenneth Hill 111,000 0.080
Roy Cotterill 190,000 0.137
Colin Garrett 100,000 0.072
Stephan 50,000 0.036
Lawrenson
Paul Wright 125,400 0.090
Dr Minesh Patel 1,105,778 0.796
The New Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the Existing Ordinary Shares
in all respects.
20 December 2001
Enquiries
Vocalis Group plc 01223 846177
Paul Wright, Chief Operating Officer
Credit Lyonnais Securities 020 7588 4000
Simon Bennett
Weber Shandwick Square Mile 020 7950 2800
Nick Oborne/Stephanie Smart