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On 7 April 2022, The Merchants Trust PLC issued 75,000 new ordinary shares from its general corporate purposes block listing facility at a price of 577.12p per share, which represented a 1% premium to the current net asset value. Following this issue, the total number of ordinary shares in issue now stands at 129,899,887, with 5,194,921 ordinary shares remaining available under its block listing facility. Shareholders are to use 131,077,887 as the denominator for FCA Disclosure and Transparency Rules calculations.
| Date | 7 Apr 2022 |
| Time | 14:57:34 |
| Category | Capital structure |
| ID | 6920H |
LEI: 5299008VJFXCUD2EG312
7 April 2022
The Merchants Trust PLC
In accordance with the policy announced on 19 March 2019, the Company has today issued 75,000 new ordinary shares of 25p each from the Company's general corporate purposes block listing facility at a price of 577.12p 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 5,194,921 ordinary shares under its block listing facility. As a result of this allotment, the total number of ordinary shares in issue now stands at 129,899,887.
Shareholders may use the figure 131,077,887 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.