Block Listing - Allotment of New Shares
23/03/2023 16:35
For best results when printing this announcement, please click on link below: http://newsfile.refinitiv.com/getnewsfile/v1/story?guid=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20230323:nRSW0677Ua&default-theme=true RNS Number : 0677U Merchants Trust PLC 23 March 2023 LEI: 5299008VJFXCUD2EG312 23 March 2023 The Merchants Trust PLC In accordance with the policy announced on 19 March 2019, the Company has today issued 100,000 new ordinary shares of 25p each from the Company's general corporate purposes block listing facility at the prices below. The issuances each represented a premium of at least 1% to the prevailing current net asset value. These shares are issued under the waiver of pre-emption rights authorised by shareholders at the general meeting and rank pari passu with existing shares in issue. 1. 50,000 at 557.99p per share 2. 50,000 at 558.21p per share Following this issue, the Company has the ability to issue 14,964,921 ordinary shares under its block listing facility. As a result of this allotment, the total number of ordinary shares in issue now stands at 142,129,887. Shareholders may use the figure 143,307,887 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 information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com (mailto:rns@lseg.com) or visit www.rns.com (http://www.rns.com/) . RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy (https://www.lseg.com/privacy-and-cookie-policy) . END IOEQXLFLXXLXBBZ