26 Mar 2020 07:00
26 March 2020
Huntsworth plc
(Huntsworth or the Company)
Additional Listing
Huntsworth plc, the healthcare and communications group, announces that to partly satisfy a vested award over 1,472,392 shares under The Huntsworth Long Term Incentive Plan 2016 granted in March 2017 to the Company's Chief Executive Officer, Paul Taaffe, the Company is to issue 1,411,978 new ordinary shares of 1p each in the capital of the Company (New Shares). The balance of 60,414 shares to satisfy the above mentioned vested award will be sourced from the Company's employee benefit trust.
Hence an application has been made to the UK Listing Authority and to the London Stock Exchange for the New Shares to be admitted to the Official List and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities (Admission). It is expected that Admission will occur at 8.00am on 27th March 2020.
The New Shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares of 1p each.
Following Admission, the Company will hold nil ordinary shares in treasury and will have a total of 371,514,977 ordinary shares of 1p each in issue.
Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company will be 371,514,977. The figure of 371,514,977 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which to determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
For further information please contact:
Citigate Dewe Rogerson +44 (0)20 7638 9571
Angharad Couch
Nick Reading
Elizabeth Kittle