REG - Cooks Coffee Company - Issue of equity, Director/PDMR shareholding & TVR

Cooks CoffeeAnnouncement

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RNS Number : 7022W  Cooks Coffee Company Limited  26 August 2025

26 August 2025

Cooks Coffee Company Limited

("Cooks Coffee", or the "Company")

 

Issue of equity, Director/PDMR shareholding and total voting rights

 

Issue of equity under master franchise agreement

 

Cooks Coffee Company (NZX:CCC; AQUIS:COOK), the international coffee focused
café chain, announces that it has issued 1,680,672 ordinary shares in the
Company ("Ordinary Shares") to Jaspreet Singh at an issue price of NZ$0.20 per
share pursuant to the master franchise agreement ("MFA") for India with
Sterling Coffee House Limited, details of which were announced on 8 May 2025.
Pursuant to the MFA, it was agreed that Mr Singh, owner of Sterling Coffee
House Limited, would subscribe for new Ordinary Shares in order to align the
interests of the master franchisee with those of shareholders of Cooks Coffee.
The subscription for the new Ordinary Shares by Mr Singh has raised NZ$334k
for the Company. There are no further shares to be issued pursuant to the MFA.

 

Director dealing

 

The Company has been notified that Nikau Trust, a trust in which the
non-executive Chairman of the Company Keith Jackson is a trustee, agreed with
the Company to reclassify 458,000 of their non-voting shares as Ordinary
Shares quoted on the New Zealand Stock Exchange.

 

Following the reclassification, Nikau Trust now holds 13,275,345 Ordinary
Shares representing 19.99% of the ordinary share capital of the Company. Nikau
Trust also holds 42,000 non-voting shares.

 

The regulatory announcement made in accordance with the rules of the New
Zealand Stock Exchange is available here
(https://api.nzx.com/public/announcement/457544/attachment/450551/457544-450551.pdf)
.

 

Admission to trading and total voting rights

 

Application has been made for the 2,138,672 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted
to trading on the AQSE Growth Market, which is anticipated to occur on or
around 1 September 2025 ("Admission").

 

Following the issue of the new Ordinary Shares, the Company's issued share
capital consists of 66,377,342 ordinary shares, each with one voting right.
 The Company also has 42,000 unquoted non-voting shares (which may be
reclassified on written notice as quoted ordinary shares) in issue.

 

The figure of 66,377,342 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.

 

Authorised for release by the Chair of Cooks Coffee.

Enquiries:

 Cooks Coffee Company Limited                                         +64 21 702 509 (New Zealand)
 Keith Jackson (Executive Chairman)                                   keith.jackson@cookscoffeecompany.com

                                                                    (mailto:keith.jackson@cookscoffeecompany.com)
 Aiden Keegan (Chief Executive)
                                                                      +44 (0) 7980 608 440 (UK)

                                                                      aiden@esquirescoffee.co.uk (mailto:aiden@esquirescoffee.co.uk)

                                                                      +44 (0) 20 3934 6630 (UK)
                                                                      ukinvestorrelations@cookscoffeecompany.com
                                                                      (mailto:ukinvestorrelations@cookscoffeecompany.com)

 IFC Advisory Limited (Financial PR & IR)                             +44 (0) 20 3934 6630
 Graham Herring, Florence Staton                                      cookscoffee@investor-focus.co.uk (mailto:cookscoffee@investor-focus.co.uk)

 Allenby Capital (AQSE Corporate Adviser and Broker)                  +44 (0) 20 3179 5300
 James Reeve, Dan Dearden-Williams, Ashur Joseph (Corporate Finance)

 Guy McDougall / Tony Quirke (Sales and Corporate Broking)

 

 

The following notification, made in accordance with the requirements of the UK
Market Abuse Regulation, gives further detail.

 

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING
MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

 

 1   Details of person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely
     associated
 a)  Name                                     Keith Jackson
 2   Reason for the notification
 a)  Position/status                          Non-Executive Director (Chairman)
 b)  Initial notification/Amendment           Initial notification
 3   Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
     platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
 a)  Name                                     Cooks Coffee Company Limited
 b)  Legal Entity Identifier                  213800NQAFZRYYJDMN33
 4   Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of
     instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each
     place where transactions have been conducted
 a)  Description of the financial instrument  Ordinary Shares of zero nominal value
     Identification code                      NZCFGE0001S7
 b)  Nature of the transaction                Reclassification of non-voting to ordinary shares

 c)  Price(s) and volume(s)                   Price(s) N/A               Volume(s) 458,000
 d)  Aggregated information
     -     Aggregated volume                  N/A

     -     Price
 e)  Date of the transaction                  26 August 2025
 f)  Place of the transaction                 Outside a trading venue

 

 

 

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