Terms for rights issue in Royal Unibrew A/S
Terms for rights issue in Royal Unibrew A/S
November 16, 2009 at 12:00 AM EST
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Company announcement No 30/2009 16 November 2009 Royal Unibrew A/S (the “Company” or “Royal Unibrew”) publishes the terms for rights issue Following the Company's Interim Report for Q1-Q3 2009 and Notice of an Extraordinary General Meeting the Supervisory Board of Royal Unibrew has today resolved the terms for the rights issue conditional to approval of the authorisation to increase the Company's share capital at the Extraordinary General Meeting today and to the market conditions until Thursday 19 November 2009, where the prospectus for the rights issue is ex-pected to be published. The terms are described below. Royal Unibrew will offer 5,600,000 new shares with pre-emptive rights to the Company's shareholders. The subscription ratio will be 1 for 1, which means that shareholders will be allocated one (1) pre-emptive right for every existing share held, and one (1) pre-emptive right entitle shareholders to subscribe for one (1) new share against payment of the offer price of DKK 75 per offer share. The trading period for the pre-emptive rights will commence on 23 November 2009 and closes on 4 December 2009. The subscription period for the offer shares will commence on 26 November 2009 and closes on 9 De-cember 2009. Royal Unibrew A/S will receive gross proceeds from the offering of approximately DKK 420 million if the of-fering is fully subscribed. The offering will not be underwritten. The detailed terms for the offering will be described in the prospectus. The Supervisory Board will as a result of the above at the Extraordinary General Meeting today propose that the proposed authorisation to the Supervisory Board to increase the Company's capital is reduced from a nominal amount of DKK 120,000,000 (12,000,000 shares of DKK 10 each) to a nominal amount of DKK 56,000,000 (5,600,000 shares of DKK 10 each), whereby the authorisation corresponds to the number of new shares to be offered. For additional information regarding this announcement, please contact: Henrik Brandt, CEO, tel. +45 56 77 15 13 Information on the potential rights issue does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities of Royal Unibrew A/S in Australia, Canada, Japan or the United States or in any other jurisdiction. This announcement contains “forward-looking statements”. Undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements because they relate to and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future and actual results may differ mate-rially to those in forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding our business, financial condition, strategy, results of operations, financing and other plans, objectives, assumptions, expectations, prospects, beliefs and other future events and prospects. We undertake no obligation, and do not intend, to publicly update or revise any of these forward-looking statements, whether to reflect new information or future events or circumstances or other-wise.