REG - Ultimate Products - Share buyback programme update

Ultimate ProductsAnnouncement

01/11/2024 07:00

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RNS Number : 5005K  Ultimate Products PLC  01 November 2024

 

Ultimate Products plc

("Ultimate Products", "Company" or "the Group")

 

Share buyback programme update

 

Ultimate Products, the owner of a number of leading homeware brands including
Salter (the UK's oldest houseware brand, est.1760) and Beldray (est.1872),
announces the following updates to its share buyback programme ("Share Buyback
Programme").

 

Share Buyback Programme

The Company intends to continue with the rolling programme of share buybacks
as previously announced on 10 May 2024. The programme will continue on an
ongoing basis, in accordance with the terms of the Company's general authority
to purchase a maximum of 8,931,245 ordinary shares ("Ordinary Shares") gained
at the Company's General Meeting held on 2 May 2024 ("General Meeting"). Any
Ordinary Shares purchased under the Share Buyback Programme will be cancelled
and the number of Ordinary Shares in issue reduced accordingly.

 

As previously announced, the Company is completing the Share Buyback Programme
in tranches. Tranche 1 was completed on 31 July 2024 whilst Tranche 2 was
completed on 31 October 2024. Tranche 3 commences from 1 November 2024 and is
intended to consist of a maximum consideration of up to £1 million to
purchase Ordinary Shares until 31 January 2024 ("Tranche 3").  Any purchases
made prior to the Company's Annual General Meeting at 1.00 p.m. on Friday,13
December 2024 (the "AGM") will be made pursuant to the terms of the
authorities previously granted in the General Meeting held on 2 May 2024.
Any purchases made after the AGM will only be made subject to the passing of
the buyback resolutions to be proposed at the AGM.  If the resolutions to be
proposed at the AGM are not approved by shareholders Tranche 3 of the buyback
will cease at the commencement of the AGM.

 

The Company has given irrevocable and non-discretionary instructions to
Cavendish in relation to Tranche 3. Cavendish will act as principal during
Tranche 3 and will make trading decisions concerning the timing of the
purchases of Ordinary Shares independently of the Company. The Company will
announce subsequent tranches of the Share Buyback Programme prior to the
initiation of each new tranche. These tranches are expected to alternate
between the Company's joint brokers, in each case acting as principal.

 

The maximum price which may be paid for an Ordinary Share pursuant to the
Share Buyback Programme is an amount equal to the higher of: (i) 105 per cent.
of the average of the middle market quotations for an Ordinary Share for the
five dealing days immediately preceding the day on which the Ordinary Share is
purchased; and (ii) the value of an Ordinary Share calculated on the basis of
the higher of the price quoted for: the last independent trade of, and the
highest current independent bid for, any number of the Ordinary Shares on the
trading venue where the purchase is carried out. The minimum price which may
be paid for an Ordinary Share is an amount equal to its nominal value.

 

It is the intention that the Share Buyback Programme will be conducted within
the pricing parameters of the Market Abuse Regulation. However, given the
limited liquidity in the issued Ordinary Shares, the Company has agreed that,
on any trading day, a buyback of Ordinary Shares under the Share Buyback
Programme may exceed 25 per cent. but remain below 50 per cent. of the average
daily trading volume in the Ordinary Shares in the 20 trading days preceding
the date on which a buy-back of Ordinary Shares is carried out. Accordingly,
the Company may not benefit from the exemption contained in the Regulations.

 

Any market repurchase of Ordinary Shares will be announced no later than
7:30am on the business day following the calendar day on which the repurchase
occurred.

Details of the authority granted at the General Meeting can be found on the
Company's website
under:  https://upplc.com/investor-relations/annual-meeting/
(https://upplc.com/investor-relations/annual-meeting/)

 

 

For more information, please contact:

 

Ultimate Products +44 (0) 161 627 1400

Andrew Gossage, CEO

Chris Dent, CFO

 

Shore Capital +44 (0) 20 7408 4090

Mark Percy

Malachy McEntyre

David Coaten

Harry Davies-Ball

Isobel Jones

 

Cavendish Capital Markets Limited + 44 (0)20 7220 0500

Carl Holmes (Corporate Finance)

Matt Goode (Corporate Finance)

Abigail Kelly (Corporate Finance)

Charlie Combe (ECM)

 

Sodali & Co +44 (0) 207 250 1446

Rob Greening

Sam Austrums

Oliver Banks

 

 

 

Notes to Editors

 

Ultimate Products is the owner of a number of leading homeware brands
including Salter (the UK's oldest houseware brand, established in 1760) and
Beldray (a laundry, floor care, heating and cooling brand that was established
in 1872). According to its market research, nearly 80% of UK households own at
least one of the Group's products.

 

Ultimate Products sells to over 300 retailers across 38 countries, and
specialises in five product categories: Small Domestic Appliances; Housewares;
Laundry; Audio; and Heating and Cooling. Other brands include Progress
(cookware and bakeware), Kleeneze (laundry and floorcare), Petra (small
domestic appliances) and Intempo (audio).

 

The Group's products are sold to a broad cross-section of both large national
and international multi-channel retailers as well as smaller national retail
chains, incorporating discount retailers, supermarkets, general retailers and
online retailers.

 

Founded in 1997, Ultimate Products employs over 370 staff, a significant
number of whom have joined via the Group's graduate development scheme, and is
headquartered in Oldham, Greater Manchester, where it has design, sales,
marketing, buying, quality assurance, support functions and warehouse
facilities across two sites. Manor Mill, the Group's head office, includes a
spectacular 20,000 sq ft showroom that showcases each of its brands. In
addition, the Group has an office and showroom in Guangzhou, China and in
Paris, France.

 

Please note that Ultimate Products is not the owner of Russell Hobbs. The
company currently has licence agreements in place granting it an exclusive
licence to use the "Russell Hobbs" trademark for cookware and laundry (NB this
does not include Russell Hobbs electrical appliances).

 

For further information, please visit www.upplc.com
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