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Bagir Group Ltd
Strategic Partnership and Notice of EGM
RNS Number : 4912Z
Bagir Group Ltd
03 September 2018
3 September 2018
Bagir Group Ltd.
("Bagir" or the "Company")
Proposed Strategic Partnership with Shandong Ruyi and $16.5 million investment
Posting of Circular and Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting
Bagir (AIM: BAGR), a designer, creator and provider of innovative tailoring is pleased to announce that further to its announcement on 23 November 2017, that it had agreed terms with Shandong Ruyi Technology Group for a proposed investment and strategic partnership under which Shandong Ruyi will invest $16.5 million into the Company in return for 359,560,310 New Ordinary Shares representing 53.7 per cent of the Company's Enlarged Share Capital. The Company has today posted a circular to its shareholders containing further details of the Proposed Investment and notice to convene an Extraordinary General Meeting at which the resolutions required to enact the Proposals will be tabled.
The Proposed Investment values each New Ordinary Share at approximately 3.5 pence per Ordinary Share and represents a premium of 155 per cent. to the mid-price at 12:10 on 20 November 2017, being the point at which trading in the Ordinary Shares was suspended ahead of the announcement of the Proposed Investment on 23 November 2017.
The Board considers the Proposals and the passing of the Resolutions to be in the best interests of the Company, its Shareholders and its Depositary Interest Holders as a whole for the reasons set out below:
· The use of the investment by Shandong Ruyi, to directly target expediting the development and expansion of the manufacturing facility in Ethiopia, will significantly accelerate the timetable for the operational potential in Ethiopia to be realised enabling the facility to attract and compete for major apparel manufacturing contracts from large international retailers which generate an acceptable level of return to Bagir.
· Shandong Ruyi, as a result of its significant international textile and retail investments, is well positioned to provide the Group with significant new commercial opportunities.
· The strategic partnership has the potential to have a transformational effect on the operations and the prospects of the Group from which all Shareholders and Depositary Interest Holders will benefit.
· The strategic partnership with Shandong Ruyi will increase the Company's own profile and reputation.
Accordingly, the Directors unanimously recommend that you vote in favour of the Resolutions to be proposed at the Extraordinary General Meeting as the Directors, who have an interest in Ordinary Shares, have irrevocably undertaken to do in respect of their own and connected persons beneficial shareholding.
The Extraordinary General Meeting is to be held at the offices of N+1 Singers, One Bartholomew Lane, London EC2N 2AX at 10:00 a.m. on 9 October 2018.