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Finsbury FoodAnnouncement

30/09/2015 15:02

RNS Number : 7830A
Finsbury Food Group PLC
30 September 2015
Date:
30 September 2015
On behalf of:
Finsbury Food Group Plc ('Finsbury', 'the Company' or 'the Group')
Finsbury Food Group Plc
Block Listing Interim Review
Finsbury Food Group Plc (AIM: FIF), a leading manufacturer of cake and bread bakery goods, provides the following information in connection with its block admission pursuant to AIM Rule 29 and Schedule 6 of the AIM Rules:
(a) Name of the company

Finsbury Food Group Plc
(b) Name of the Scheme

The Finsbury Food Group Sharesave Plan ("the Scheme")
(c) Period of return (from/to)

26 February 2015 to 31 August 2015
(d) Number and class of securities not issued under the scheme at the start of the period

152,640
(e) Number of securities issued under the Scheme during the period

113,400
(f) Number of securities cancelled forfeited or lapsed in the period

27,720
(g) Balance under the Scheme of securities not yet issued at the end of the period

11,520
(h) Number and class of securities originally admitted and the date of admission 

1,055,858 Ordinary Shares of 1p each on 26 February 2013
(i) Contact name and telephone number

Stephen Boyd, Finance Director. 02920 357 500
For further information: 
 
Finsbury Food Group Plc www.finsburyfoods.co.uk
John Duffy (Chief Executive) 02920 357 500
Stephen Boyd (Finance Director)
Cenkos Securities plc
Bobbie Hilliam (Corporate Finance)
Oliver Baxendale (Sales)
Redleaf Polhillfinsbury@redleafpr.com
Rebecca Sanders-Hewett  020 7382 4730
Harriet Lynch
 
Notes to Editors:
 Finsbury Food Group Plc (AIM: FIF) is a leading UK manufacturer of cake and bread bakery goods, supplying a broad range of blue chip customers within both the Grocery retail and'out of home eating'foodservice sectors including major multiples and leading foodservice providers.
 Following the acquisition of the Fletchers Group of bakeries, the Company is one of the largest speciality bakery groups in the UK with annualised sales approaching300 million.
 The Company's bakery product range is comprehensive and includes:
-Large premium and celebration cakes;
-Small snacking cake formats such as cake slices and bites;
-Artisan, healthy lifestyle and organic breads through to rolls, muffins (sweet and savoury) and morning pastries, all of which are available both fresh and frozen dependent on customer channel requirements.
 The Company is now the second largest manufacturer of ambient packaged cake (excluding In Store Bakery) in the UK, a market valued at951m (Source Symphony IRI 52 w/e 15 August 2015). The annual bread and morning goods market has a value in excess of4.8 billion (source Kantar Worldpanel). The UK foodservice bread and morning goods bakery sector is worth approximately900 million per annum, 70 per cent of which is in morning goods. The UK foodservice cake and sweet treat bakery sector is worth approximately 500m per annum.
 The Company comprises a UK Bakery division and an Overseas division:
-UK Bakery has manufacturing sites in Cardiff, East Kilbride, Hamilton, Twechar, Salisbury, Sheffield, London and Manchester.
The overseas sector comprise, the Company's 50% owned Company Lightbody Stretz Ltd that supplies and distributes the Group's UK manufactured products and third party products primarily to Europe.

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