Rns...17 Sep 2013 08:20
17 September 2013
DDD Group PLC
DDD receives GBP575,500 investment from InterDigital
Los Angeles, California and Wilmington, Delaware: DDD Group plc (AIM: DDD; OTCQX: DDDGY), the 3D solutions company ("DDD" or the "Company"), announces that on 16 September 2013 it placed 7,039,760 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Placing Shares") with a wholly owned subsidiary of InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDCC) at a placing price of 8.175 pence per share raising approximately GBP575,500 before expenses (the "Placing") equivalent to the average closing mid-market price of 8.175 pence per share on the five days before and including 16 September 2013 (being the latest practicable date before this announcement).
The net proceeds from the Placing of approximately GBP568,500 will allow the Company to continue to develop its business activities related to the HD and UHD video processing technologies recently announced by the Company.
The Placing Shares have been placed with InterDigital which has made this strategic investment at the same time as entering into a joint technology development agreement with DDD as separately announced today.
Following the issue of the Placing Shares, the Company's existing issued share capital has increased by 5% from 136,628,812 shares to 143,668,572 shares. In accordance with the requirements of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules, DDD's issued share capital as at 23 September 2013 will consist of 143,668,572 ordinary shares with a nominal value of GBP0.01 each, with voting rights. DDD does not hold any ordinary shares in Treasury; therefore, the total number of voting rights in DDD is 143,668,572. 143,668,572 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, DDD under the Financial Service Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Application for the Placing Shares to be admitted to AIM has been submitted to London Stock Exchange, and it is expected that admission will take place on or around 23 September 2013.
Commenting on the Placing, Nicholas Brigstocke, Chairman of DDD, said:
"It is a pleasure to welcome InterDigital as a strategic investor in this placing, which validates the latest technologies that have been developed by our research and development team to address key requirements in the growing markets for streaming high definition and ultra high definition video content.
"The separate development agreement announced today with InterDigital provides the Company with a strong partner with whom we can further develop these new technologies."
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