Last checked at 6 Mar 2015 11:55
AFC Energy PLC
("AFC Energy" or "the Company")
Issuance of Shares
AFC Energy (AIM: AFC), the industrial fuel cell power company, announces that further to the announcement made on 3 December 2014, the second tranche of Adam Bond's signing bonus payable in Ordinary Shares of the Company has come due.
Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for this second tranche of 1,000,000 shares to be admitted to trading at 8am on 12 March 2015.
Following issuance of these shares, Adam Bond's interest will be as follows:
Tranche | Number of shares acquired | Number of shares owned post acquisition
| % Holding of Enlarged Share Capital | |
Adam Bond
| Second | 1,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 0.69% |
Adam is currently employed at Linc Energy who themselves hold 22,000,705 Ordinary Shares in the Company.
Following admission of the second tranche of shares, the total number of ordinary shares and voting rights in the Company will be 287,833,534. The Company does not hold any shares in treasury.
The above figure may be used by shareholders in the Company 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, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
The issuance of shares to Adam Bond constitutes a related party transaction in accordance with AIM Rule 13. The Independent Directors, having consulted with the Company's nominated adviser Zeus Capital, consider the terms of the transaction to be fair and reasonable insofar as its shareholders are concerned.
For further information, please contact:
AFC Energy plc Adam Bond (Chief Executive Officer)
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+44 (0) 20 3697 1209 |
Zeus Capital Limited - Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker John Depasquale, John Treacy Alex Davies, John Goold
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+44 (0) 20 7533 7727
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M C Peat & Co LLP - Joint Broker Charlie Peat |
+44 (0) 20 7104 2334 |
Lionsgate Communications - Public Relations Jonathan Charles, Rachel Rigby
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+44 (0) 20 3697 1209 |
About AFC Energy
Founded in 2006, AFC Energy plc is re-engineering proven alkaline fuel cell technology to reduce the cost of electricity. Alkaline fuel cells have been used on US and Russian manned space missions for decades to provide electrical power and drinking water. By using advanced materials, design tools and manufacturing processes at scale, AFC Energy is developing fuel cells that will compete with conventional technologies such as turbines for electrical power generation. Today, AFC Energy is pursuing opportunities in several sectors where hydrogen is readily available including the chlorine, clean coal and waste-to-energy industries as well as applications for distributed/back-up power. For further information, please visit our website: www.afcenergy.com.