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NewRiver Retail Limited
("NewRiver" or the "Company")
Conversion of Loan Stock
The Company has received notices to convert £6,500,000 of its 5.85 per cent. B Convertible Loan Stock 2015 ("B CULS") into ordinary shares of no par value ("Ordinary Shares") from State Street Nominees Limited and Harewood Nominees Limited. At a conversion price of 245 pence per Ordinary Share this will result in the issue of 2,653,061 Ordinary Shares. Accordingly, the Company has applied to the London Stock Exchange for the 2,653,061 Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will occur at 8.00am on 2 July 2015. The Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares in the capital of the Company then in issue.
Following the conversion, the Company's issued share capital will be 130,227,456 ordinary shares of no par value. The Company holds 479,345 ordinary shares of no par value in the Company's Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT"). As the EBT is consolidated, these shares are treated as treasury shares.
The total number of voting rights in the Company is therefore 129,748,111. 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 FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Following the conversion, there will be no B CULS outstanding.
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NewRiver Retail Limited David Lockhart, Chief Executive Mark Davies, Finance Director | Tel: 020 3328 5800 |
Bell Pottinger David Rydell / James Newman / David Bass | Tel: 020 3772 2500 |
Liberum Richard Crawley / Jamie Richards | Tel: 020 3100 2000 |
Peel Hunt LLP Capel Irwin / Alex Vaughan / Hugh Preston | Tel: 020 7418 8900 |
About NewRiver
NewRiver Retail Limited is an AIM listed REIT. The Company is a specialist real estate investor and asset manager focused solely on UK retail with a particular focus on food and value retailing. NewRiver Retail was named Property Company of the Year - Retail & Leisure at the Estates Gazette Awards at the close of 2014.
The management team, with over 100 years combined experience in the UK commercial property market, actively engages with retailers, stakeholders and consumers. NewRiver Retail is one of the UK's largest shopping centre owner/managers with assets under management of £848 million principally comprising 29 UK wide shopping centres, further nationwide retail assets and a portfolio of 202 public houses principally suitable for conversion to alternative uses. The portfolio has 1,377 occupiers, a total of over 5.5 million sq ft, total annual footfall of over 121 million and a retail occupancy rate of 96 per cent.
The Company's activities include active and entrepreneurial asset management and risk-controlled development, utilising both its own balance sheet and co-investment joint venture structures.
Founded in 2009, NewRiver has become the UK's leading retail-focused property investment business. The Company's shares were admitted to London's AIM in September of the same year. For more information on NewRiver, please visit www.nrr.co.uk .