Smiths Group Regulatory News (SMIN)

18 Jun 2007 07:56

Smiths Group PLC18 June 2007 Listing of New Ordinary Shares and B Shares and Application for Block Listings The Board of Smiths Group plc is pleased to announce that the Return of Cash toShareholders is now being implemented and it is expected that New OrdinaryShares and B Shares in Smiths Group plc will be admitted to the Official Listmaintained by the Financial Services Authority and will commence trading at 8.00a.m. today. Further details of the Return of Cash are contained in the circularto Shareholders dated 16 May 2007 (the "Circular"). On admission, a total of 385,047,430 New Ordinary Shares of 37.5 pence each and577,571,145 B Shares of 1 penny each will be in issue. In addition, application has been made to the Financial Services Authority andthe London Stock Exchange for block listings totalling 1,308,646 New OrdinaryShares of 37.5 pence each to trade on the London Stock Exchange and to beadmitted to the Official List upon issuance. The block listings consist of 41,745 shares to be issued under the Smiths GroupSharesave Scheme, 821,111 under the Smiths Industries 1995 Executive ShareOption Scheme, 133,279 under the TI Group 1990 Executive Share Option Scheme,82,806 under the TI Group 1999 Executive Share Option Scheme and 229,705 sharesto be issued under the TI Group 1994 Savings Related Share Option Scheme. Terms defined in the Circular have the same meaning when used in thisannouncement. Enquiries: Smiths Group 020 8458 3232 Investors Russell Plumley Media Chris Fox JPMorgan Cazenove 020 7588 2828 Edmund Byers Matthew Lawrence Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited 020 7888 8888 James Leigh-Pemberton Tristan Lovegrove This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange