RE: Disgruntled PR1 investors15 Jul 2025 08:50
Testing you are not in the loop here PRIM made announcement of buy back for their AGM keep up the reason being they stated in RNS as liquidity
The buyback authority was obtained to allow the Company to purchase Ordinary Shares through the London Stock Exchange if there was limited liquidity in the market, and if the Directors considered that it was in the best interests of the Company and Shareholders as a whole. Any purchased Ordinary Shares would be cancelled (in which case the number of shares in issue would thereby be reduced) or, alternatively, held as treasury shares depending on which course of action is considered by the Directors to be in the best interests of the Company and Shareholders as a whole at that time.
Although no purchases by the Company of its Ordinary Shares have yet been made, the Company intends to seek Shareholder approval at the AGM to be held on 8 July 2025 of a new buyback authority for the Company to make on market purchases of up to 40 per cent. of its Issued Share Capital implemented by way of a share buyback. Accordingly, the Company will seek Shareholder approval of the Share Buyback Authority ("Share Buyback Resolution").
The Company has agreed with the Panel that the following persons are acting in concert in relation to the Company: Rupert Labrum and Hedley Clark, being the Executive Chairman and a Non-Executive Director respectively. Accordingly they (together with their close relatives and the related trusts of any of them) make up a concert party as defined by the Takeover Code (the "Concert Party"). As at the date of the Notice of AGM, the Concert Party has a combined interest in 41,780,673 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 29.88 per cent. of the Existing Issued Share Capital.
Any purchases by the Company of its own Ordinary Shares will reduce the Issued Share Capital and may thereby increase the Concert Party's holding to 30 per cent. or more of the resultant Issued Share Capital.
Under Rule 9 of the Takeover Code, when any person acquires an interest in shares which (taken together with shares in which the person or any person acting in concert with that person is interested) carry 30 per cent. or more of the voting rights of a company, such person shall extend offers to the holders of the other shares in company. Under Rule 37.1 of the Takeover Code, when a company redeems or purchases its own voting shares, any resulting increase in the percentage of shares carrying voting rights in which a person or group of persons acting in concert is interested will be treated as an acquisition for the purpose of Rule 9. Subject to prior consultation, the Panel will normally waive any resulting obligation to make an offer under Rule 9 if there is a vote of independent shareholders.
The Panel has agreed to waive the obligation to make an offer that would otherwise arise under Rule 9 as a result of the Share Buyback Programme, subject to the approval of the Independent Shareholders.