9 Mar 2018 18:00
9 March 2018
Big Sofa Technologies Group plc
("Big Sofa" or the "Company")
Replacement - Completion of Investment by Ipsos
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Appointment of Director
The following replaces the "Completion of Investment by Ipsos & Appointment of Director" announcement released on 9 March 2018 at 8.12 a.m. under RNS Number 2373H. The only change relates to correcting the spelling of one of Ms Stoclet's previous directorships in the Appendix to this announcement.
The full amended text is shown below.
Big Sofa (AIM: BST), a fast-growing international video analytics provider to consumer brands and market research agencies, announces the completion of the Investment of £3 million in Big Sofa by Ipsos following Admission of the Subscription Shares to AIM.
Admission of Shares and Total Voting Rights
The 16,402,143 Subscription Shares were admitted to trading on AIM at 8:00 a.m. today ("Admission"). Ipsos is now interested in approximately 20 per cent of the Company's total issued ordinary share capital. The Company's total issued ordinary share capital is now 82,010,723 Ordinary Shares. No ordinary shares are held in treasury. This figure 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, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Appointment of Director
Big Sofa is pleased to confirm the appointment of Ms Laurence Stoclet, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Group Chief Financial Officer and Support Functions Director at Ipsos, as a Non-executive Director of the Company with immediate effect. Further information relating to the appointment of Ms Stoclet appears below in the appendix to this announcement.
Capitalised terms in this announcement have the same meaning given to them as defined in Big Sofa's announcement dated 2 March 2018.
Enquiries
Big Sofa Technologies Group plc | via Vigo Communications |
Simon Lidington, CEO |
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Matt Lynch, CSO |
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Joe MacCarthy, CFO |
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Vigo Communications (Financial Public Relations) | +44 (0) 20 7830 9700 |
Ben Simons / Jeremy Garcia / Antonia Pollock | |
SPARK Advisory Partners (NOMAD) | +44 (0)20 3368 3554 |
Neil Baldwin / Mark Brady |
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Hobart Capital Markets (Broker) | +44 (0) 20 7070 5656 |
Lee Richardson / Phillip Worton |
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About Big Sofa Technologies Group plc
Big Sofa is a B2B technology business servicing the marketing and consumer insight industries with video analytics.
Our software platform collates, analyses and organises large volumes of raw/unstructured video content enabling companies to perform detailed and sophisticated consumer insight analysis; and make genuine use of their video content.
Until recently, video has been difficult and expensive to capture, upload, store, manage and analyse as a consumer insight tool. However, proliferation of smart phones has empowered consumers to speak directly to brands resulting in an evolution of consumer insight and data analytics techniques, with video emerging as a key platform in a massive $33 billion consumer research market.
Big Sofa's shares are admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market under the ticker BST.L.
To find out more, visit www.bigsofatech.com
Follow us on twitter at @bigsofatech
Appendix - Appointment of Ms Laurence Stoclet
Save for the information disclosed below, there are no further disclosures to be made in accordance with Schedule Two paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies in respect of Ms Stoclet.
Full name: Laurence Catherine Dubois Usage Stoclet
Age: 51
Current directorships:
Ipsos SA
Ipsos Group GIE
Ipsos Stat
Ipsos Strategic Plus
Ipsos Proprietary Ltd
Ipsos Public Affairs Pty Ltd
I-View Proprietary Ltd
Synovate (Asia-Pacific-BVI) Ltd
Ipsos-Insight Corporation
Ipsos NPD, Inc.
Ipsos Napoleon Franco & Cia SAS
Ipsos AS (Denmark)
Ipsos GmbH
Ipsos Asia Limited
Ipsos Limited (Hong Kong)
Synovate Limited (Hong Kong)
Ipsos China Limited
Ipsos Observer Limited
Ipsos Research Private Limited
PT Ipsos Market Research Ltd
PT Field Force Indonesia
Ipsos Limited (Ireland)
Ipsos S.r.l
Ipsos Co. Ltd
Ipsos Sdn Bhd
Synovate Sdn Bhd
Ipsos SA de CV
Ipsos Ltd (New Zealand)
Ipsos AS (Norway)
Ipsos Opinion y Mercado S.A.
Ipsos Spolka z Ograniczona Odpowiedzialoscia,Ipsos Iberia S.A.U.
Ipsos Understanding Unlimited S.A.U.
Ipsos Ltd (Thailand)
IJD Ltd
Synovate Ltd (Thailand)
Recon Arastirma Danismanlik AS
Ipsos Arastirma ve Danismanlik AS
Synovate Holding BV
Ipsos BV
Ipsos Insight LLC
Ipsos Interactive Services US LLC
Research Data Analysis, Inc
Ipsos MMA, Inc.
Ipsos Public Affairs, LLC
Ipsos America Inc
Ipsos MORI UK Ltd
Ipsos Interactive Services Limited
Livra Europe Ltd
Ipsos Pan Africa Holding Ltd
Synovate Healthcare Ltd
Ipsos Pte Ltd
DT & Partners
SCI Bon
SCI La Villa du Set
SCI Le Gîvre
Ipsos EMEA Holdings Ltd
Previous directorships (last 5 years):
Synovate Treasury BV
Ipsos Latin America BV
Synovate Management Services Ltd
LT Participations