Placing30 Nov 2015 18:11
taken from a recent interview with Paul Scott and ST.
Will you need to do any more Placings? And if so, will you be including an Open Offer for existing shareholders?
ST:
No, and Yes.
PS:
Right, so you don’t envisage more Placings, but if there are, you would do an Open Offer.
ST:
Absolutely, and talking openly, I’ve pushed to include private investors in the past. We’ve had some private investors who’ve emailed us in the past, and said, if that situation arises, contact me. As you know Paul, that needs to be done in a controlled way. The broker will say, “If you tell Bill, then he might tell his wife, who tells somebody else, and all of a sudden it’s out”.
To me that’s not a reason to not include everybody. We don’t have different classes of share, we have one class of share, so everybody is equal, whether you’re the biggest institution, or a chap with 10 shares. So absolutely, it would be open.
I think everyone is forgetting about our deal in the Middle East, that’s recently happened, the rest of the core business, and everything else - I don’t foresee us needing to raise anything.