Block Listing - Allotment of New Shares
17/05/2023 16:36
For best results when printing this announcement, please click on link below: http://newsfile.refinitiv.com/getnewsfile/v1/story?guid=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20230517:nRSQ7778Za&default-theme=true RNS Number : 7778Z Merchants Trust PLC 17 May 2023 LEI: 5299008VJFXCUD2EG312 17 May 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 a price of 567.04p per share. This represents a premium of 1% to the 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. Following this issue, the Company has the ability to issue 11,459,921 ordinary shares under its block listing facility. As a result of this allotment, the total number of ordinary shares in issue now stands at 145,634,887. Shareholders may use the figure 146,812,887 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 IOEEDLFFXELXBBZ