NewRiver Retail Limited
("NewRiver" or the "Company")
Result of Extraordinary General Meeting ("EGM") and Total Voting Rights
The Directors of NewRiver Retail Limited are pleased to announce that at its EGM held on Tuesday 14 July 2015, all of the proposed resolutions, as set out in the EGM notice despatched to shareholders on 24 June 2015, were passed. Full details of the voting results are available on the Company's website at www.nrr.co.uk.
Accordingly, the Company has applied to the London Stock Exchange for 50,000,000 new ordinary shares of no par value each (the "New Ordinary Shares") to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will occur at 8.00am on 17 July 2015. The New Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares in the Company.
The New Ordinary Shares will not be eligible for the first quarterly dividend of 4.5 pence per ordinary share, which is payable on 31 July 2015 to shareholders who were on the Company's register of members at the close of business on 3 July 2015.
Following Admission, NewRiver's share capital will consist of 180,227,456 ordinary shares of no par value each, of which 479,345 are held in treasury. The total number of voting rights in the Company, excluding treasury shares, is therefore 179,748,111.
The above figure (179,748,111) may be used by shareholders 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, NewRiver under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
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For further information:
NewRiver Retail Limited David Lockhart, Chief Executive Mark Davies, Finance Director |
Tel: 020 3328 5800 |
Bell Pottinger David Rydell/David Bass/James Newman |
Tel: 020 3772 2500 |
Liberum (Nomad and Joint Bookrunner) Richard Crawley /Jamie Richards Peel Hunt (Joint Bookrunner) Capel Irwin/Hugh Preston/Jock Maxwell Macdonald Kinmont (Financial Adviser) Mat Thackery |
Tel: 020 3100 2000 Tel: 020 7418 8900 Tel: 020 7087 9100 |
About NewRiver
NewRiver Retail Limited is an AIM listed REIT. The Company is a specialist real estate investor and asset manager focused solely on UK retail with a particular focus on food and value retailing. At the close of 2014 NewRiver Retail was named Property Company of the Year - Retail & Leisure at the Estates Gazette Awards.
The management team, with over 100 years combined experience in the UK commercial property market, actively engages with retailers, stakeholders and consumers. NewRiver Retail is one of the UK's largest shopping centre owner/managers with assets under management of £849 million principally comprising 29 UK wide shopping centres, further nationwide retail assets and a portfolio of 202 public houses principally suitable for conversion to alternative uses. The portfolio has 1,376 occupiers, a total of over 5.6 million sq ft, total annual footfall of over 121 million and a retail occupancy rate of 96 per cent.
The Company's activities include active and entrepreneurial asset management and risk-controlled development, utilising both its own balance sheet and co-investment joint venture structures.
Founded in 2009, NewRiver has become the UK's leading retail-focused property investment business. The Company's shares were admitted to London's AIM in September of the same year. For more information on NewRiver, please visit www.nrr.co.uk.
