28 Sep 2012 12:02
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For Immediate Release | 28 September 2012 |
Goals Soccer Centres Plc ("Goals" or the "Company")
Completion of Placing
Goals Soccer Centres plc ("Goals" or the "Company") the 5-a-side soccer centre operator, is pleased to announce that further to the announcement of 28 September the Company has raised approximately £2.8 million by way of a placing of 2,430,928 new shares of 0.25 pence each. The Placing proceeds will be used to provide additional balance sheet flexibility.
The price per Placing Share was set at 115 pence (the "Placing Price") and the Placing Shares represent approximately 5.0 percent. of Goals' issued share capital prior to the Placing.
The Placing Shares will be credited as fully paid and will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares of Goals, including the right to receive all dividends and other distributions declared, made or paid after Admission has occurred.
The Company has applied for Admission of the Placing Shares to trading on AIM, and it is expected that Admission will take place at 08:00 on 3 October 2012. Following Admission, the total number of shares in issue will be 51,049,520 Ordinary Shares.
Any terms in this announcement not explicitly defined herein carry the same meaning as those defined in the announcement of the Placing of 28 September 2012.
For further information on the Company, visit www.goalsplc.com or contact:
Enquiries:
Goals Soccer Centres plc | 01355 234 800 |
Keith Rogers, Chief Executive | |
Bill Gow, Finance Director | |
Canaccord Genuity Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)
Erik Anderson Rob Collins | 020 7523 8350 |
College Hill | 020 7457 2020 |
Matthew Smallwood | |
Jamie Ramsay |
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
This announcement has been issued by and is the sole responsibility of the Company. No representation or warranty, express or implied, is or will be made as to, or in relation to, and no responsibility or liability is or will be accepted by Canaccord Genuity Limited or by any of their respective affiliates or agents as to, or in relation to, the accuracy or completeness of this announcement or any other written or oral information made available to or publicly available to any interested party or its advisers, and any liability therefore is expressly disclaimed.
Canaccord Genuity Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the UK Financial Services Authority ('FSA'), is acting as nominated adviser and broker to the Company and for no-one else in connection with the Placing, and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to its clients or for providing advice to any other person in relation to the Placing or any other matter referred to herein.
The distribution of this announcement and the offering of the Placing Shares in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. No action has been taken by the Company or its advisers that would permit an offering of such shares or possession or distribution of this announcement or any other offering or publicity material relating to such shares in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required. Persons into whose possession this announcement comes are required by the Company and its advisers to inform themselves about, and to observe such restrictions.
The information in this announcement shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of, the securities referred to herein in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would require preparation of a prospectus or other offer documentation, or be unlawful prior to registration, exemption from registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
No public offer of securities of the Company is being made in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States or elsewhere. The information in this announcement does not constitute or form a part of any offer or solicitation to purchase or subscribe for securities in the United States. The securities mentioned herein have not been, and will not be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933 as amended ('the Securities Act') and the securities may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. There will be no public offer of securities in the United States.
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