Last checked at 14 May 2008 13:24
| Press Release | 14 May 2008 |
STM Group Plc
("STM" or "the Company")
Issue of Equity/Director PDMR Shareholding
STM Group Plc (AIM:STM), the cross border financial services provider, today announces that 11,450 new ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") have been issued to Mr Bernard Gallagher, the Company's Non-Executive Chairman, in payment of his Chairman's fees for the quarter commencing on 1 April 2008. The number of new Ordinary Shares issued is based upon the share price of 65.5 pence per Ordinary Share, being the average closing mid-market price per Ordinary Share in the five trading days prior to the commencement of the relevant quarter date.
Following this issue, the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue is 42,269,450 and Mr Gallagher's total shareholding in the Company will be 365,523 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.9 per cent of the issued share capital of the Company. All of these shares are held by STM Fidecs Nominees Limited.
Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM on 19th May 2008
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For further information, please contact:
| STM Group Plc | |
| Tim Revill, Chief Executive Officer | Tel: 00 350 51610 |
| Matt Wood, Non-executive director | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7752 0215 |
| www.stmgroupplc.com |
| Daniel Stewart & Co. Plc | |
| Lindsay Mair / Tessa Smith | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7776 6550 |
Media enquiries:
| Abchurch | |
| Henry Harrison-Topham / Charlie Jack | Tel: +44 (0) 20 7398 7706 |
| henry.ht@abchurch-group.com | www.abchurch-group.com |
Notes to editors
STM was formed in 2007 specifically to become a leading financial services group operating in the Corporate and Trustee Service Provider (CTSP) sector. The Company listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange on 28 March 2007. The traditional business of CTSPs is to administer and manage personal, family and commercial assets and income streams in tax efficient offshore jurisdictions. The Company's aim is to grow through acquiring and consolidating high quality existing CTSPs which offer complementary products and services and that operate in complementary tax efficient jurisdictions to those provided by STM's first acquisition, the Gibraltar based CTSP, Fidecs Group Limited ("Fidecs"). Fidecs was acquired by STM upon its Admission to AIM.
Fidecs is the second largest financial services firm in Gibraltar and employs over 100 people. It specialises in financial planning for both High Net Worth individuals ("HNWI") moving to work, living or retiring overseas or making cross-border investments, and for entrepreneurial, predominantly, owner-managed businesses, expanding into or re-locating to other, frequently lower tax, jurisdictions. It also includes an insurance management division, specialising in providing set up and management services to newly formed insurance companies operating out of Gibraltar. For the nine months of trading, since the acquisition of Fidecs Group on 28 March 2007, to 31 December 2007, STM Group reported revenue of £5.29 million with pre tax profit of £1.78 million.
In June and August 2007 STM acquired two Gibraltar based CTS providers, the Atlas Group of companies and Parliament Corporate Services Limited. These two acquisitions further consolidated STM's leading position in Gibraltar. The Group expanded into the Channel Islands in December 2007, with the purchase of Compagnie Fiduciaire Trustees Limited.
The CTSP market is fragmented in nature, comprising a small number of very large international financial services groups and a large number of relatively small trust and company management businesses regulated by, and operating out of, a single jurisdiction.
Further information on STM Group can be found at www.stmgroupplc.com