12 Jul 2016 13:45
Frontier Resources International Plc
("Frontier" or the "Company")
12 July 2016
Issue of Equity
The Board of Frontier (AIM Ticker: FRI) announces that the Company has today allotted and issued 40,143,351 new Ordinary Shares.
This comprises the following:
1. Exercise of Warrants
As at close of business on 7 July 2016, valid exercise notices were received from holders of 40,139,630 warrants which were issued in February 2016 ("Warrants"). The exercise price is 0.03p per ordinary share of 0.01p ("Ordinary Share") and the gross proceeds of exercise amounted in aggregate to £12,041.89, which provides additional working capital for the Company.
Included in the figures above are the following exercises of warrants by Directors which are shown in the table at the bottom of this announcement.
The next, and final, exercise date for the outstanding warrants is 7 October 2016. If the proposed share consolidation (in which one New Ordinary Share of 2.5p will replace every 250 Ordinary Shares) ("Share Consolidation") is approved at the General Meeting scheduled for 25 July 2016, holders of remaining Warrants will have to divide the number of their Warrants by 250 to calculate the number of New Ordinary Shares the subject of the Warrants, and the exercise price of such Warrants will be 7.5p per New Ordinary Share.
2. Issue of new Ordinary Shares to purchase the outstanding deferred shares
As also announced on 7 July, the Company intends to tidy up its capital structure by acquiring, as it is entitled, all the outstanding deferred shares (which are effectively worthless) in the Company for consideration of £1. Once these deferred shares are cancelled, the Ordinary Shares will constitute the only class of share capital in the Company.
In order to achieve this, the Company has therefore allotted 3,721 Ordinary Shares at an issue price of 0.03p per Ordinary Share to Barbara Spurrier to create the share premium necessary.
The new Ordinary Shares will, on issue, rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares in issue, other than in respect of the following : they will not be eligible for participation in the Open Offer announced on 7 July. Application will be made for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. Admission and trading in the new Ordinary Shares on AIM is expected to commence on or around 18 July 2016.
Director | No of warrants exercised | No of shares issued to facilitate the purchase of the Deferred Shares | No of Ordinary Shares held post exercise | No of Ordinary Shares held as a % of enlarged issued ordinary share capital |
Neil Herbert | 24,674,571 | - | 382,682,475 | 7.36 |
Barbara Spurrier* | 5,747,618 | 3,721 | 11,514,457 | 0.22 |
* included in the figures above are the exercise of 4,285,714 warrants by CFPro Limited, a company with which Barbara Spurrier is connected. The resultant shareholding of CFPro Limited is 8,571,428 shares.
Total voting rights
Following the issue of the new Ordinary Shares, the Company's issued share capital consists of 5,200,000,000 Ordinary Shares, with voting rights. This figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculation 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 Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Enquiries:
Frontier Resources International Plc
Adam Reynolds, Chairman
Tel: +44 (0) 7785 908158
SPARK Advisory Partners Limited (Nomad)
Neil Baldwin/Mark Brady
Tel: +44 (0)20 368 3550
Beaufort Securities Limited (Broker)
Jon Belliss
Tel: +44 (0)20 7382 8300
Yellow Jersey PR Limited (Financial PR)
Felicity Winkles/ Joe Burgess/ Josh Cole
Tel: +44 (0) 7748 843 871
A copy of this announcement is available from the Company's website www.friplc.com