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29 June 2020
Kropz Plc
("Kropz" or the "Company")
Results of Open Offer
Kropz Plc (AIM: KRPZ), announces the results of its Open Offer, which was announced on 1 June 2020 and closed for acceptances, in accordance with its terms, at 11.00 a.m. on 26 June 2020.
The Company announces that it has received valid acceptances and excess applications from Qualifying Shareholders for a total of 25,849,920 Open Offer Shares, amounting to approximately 50.7 per cent., pursuant to the terms of the Open Offer. Consequently, all excess applications have been accepted and allotted in full and the Company has raised gross proceeds of approximately £1.74 million.
Director's Participation in the Open Offer
Mark Summers, Interim CEO, has subscribed for 50,000 Open Offer shares and his beneficial interest following this subscription is set out below.
Existing Ordinary Shares | Open Offer Shares | Ordinary Shares following the Open Offer Admission | Options | |||
No. | % | No. | No. | % | ||
Mark Summers | 364,889 | 0.08 | 50,000 | 414,889 | 0.09 | 3,362,609 |
Details on this subscription are included at the end of this announcement in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.
ARC Subscription and Shareholding
As previously announced, ARC Fund, Kropz's major shareholder, subscribed for 25,481,482 Open Offer Shares (equal to approximately US$ 2 million) under the Open Offer which has been accepted and allocated in full. ARC Fund will be directly interested in 295,281,998 ordinary shares of the Company representing 66.51 per cent. of the issued share capital following issue of the Open Offer Shares.
In addition, ARC Fund holds call options over certain shares held by Kropz International S.a.r.l as set out in the announcement on 13 May 2020.
Admission to Trading on AIM and Total Voting Rights
Application has been made for the 25,849,920 Open Offer Shares, which will rank pari passu with the Company's issued Ordinary Shares, to be admitted to trading on AIM. It is expected that Admission will become effective and that dealings in the Open Offer Shares will commence at 8.00 a.m. on 30 June 2020.
On Admission, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 443,960,891 ordinary shares with voting rights. There are no shares held in treasury. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change of their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Capitalised terms used but not otherwise defined in this announcement bear the meanings ascribed to them in the circular of the Company dated 1 June 2020.
For further information visit www.kropz.com or contact:
Kropz Plc |
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Mark Summers (Interim CEO) | +27 (0)79 744 8708 |
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Grant Thornton UK LLP | Nominated Adviser |
Richard Tonthat Samantha Harrison Niall McDonald | +44 (0)20 7383 5100 |
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Hannam & Partners | Joint Broker |
Andrew Chubb Ernest Bell | +44 (0)20 7907 8500 |
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Mirabaud Securities Ltd | Joint Broker |
Rory Scott Edward Haig-Thomas | +44 (0)20 3167 7220 +44 (0)20 3167 7222 |
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Tavistock | Financial PR & IR (UK) |
Emily Moss Jos Simson Oliver Lamb | +44 (0)20 7920 3150 kropz@tavistock.co.uk |
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R&A Strategic Communications | PR (South Africa) |
James Duncan | +27 (0)11 880 3924 james@rasc.co.za |
About Kropz
Kropz is an emerging African phosphate explorer and developer, with an advanced stage phosphate project in South Africa and a phosphate project in the Republic of Congo. The vision of the Group is to become a leading independent phosphate rock producer and to develop into an integrated, mine-to-market plant nutrient company focusing on sub-Saharan Africa.
PDMR Notification made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.
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| Kropz plc | |||
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| Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument | Ordinary shares | |||
Identification code | GB00BZ1HLP69 | ||||
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| Subscription in open offer | |||
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| £0.0675 | 50,000 |
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- Aggregated volume | N/A | ||||
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| 26 May 2020 | |||
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| Outside a trading venue | |||
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