15 Dec 2017 07:00
15 December 2017
Stride Gaming plc
("Stride Gaming", the "Company", or "the Group")
Blocklisting Application
Stride Gaming plc (AIM: STR), a leading online gaming operator, has made a blocklisting application to AIM for up to 5,510,000 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares"). These Ordinary Shares will be available to satisfy the future exercises of options over Ordinary Shares under the Company's Staff Option Plan. These shares, when issued, will rank pari passu in all respects with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares. It is expected that the blocklisting will become effective on 19 December 2017.
Enquiries:
Stride Gaming plc Eitan Boyd (Chief Executive Officer) Ronen Kannor (Chief Financial Officer) www.stridegaming.com
| +44 (0) 20 7284 6080 |
Shore Capital (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) Mark Percy Toby Gibbs
| +44 (0) 20 7408 4090
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Canaccord Genuity Limited (Joint Broker) Bruce Garrow Emma Gabriel Richard Andrews
| +44 (0) 20 7523 8000
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Hudson Sandler (Financial PR) Alex Brennan Hattie O'Reilly Bertie Berger | +44 (0) 20 7796 4133 |
About Stride Gaming
Stride Gaming plc, listed on AIM, is a leading online gaming operator. The Company operates a multi-branded strategy, using a combination of its proprietary and licensed software to provide online bingo and slot gaming and a social gaming mobile application.
Stride Gaming's real money offering is presently focused on the UK market, where it is licensed and only operates from the regulated jurisdictions of the UK and Alderney. The Company has an international reach in the mobile social gaming market with a focus on North America. With a diverse portfolio of 143 brands, Stride Gaming is the fourth largest online bingo operator in the UK, and has over 25% share of the UK online bingo landscape.
Stride operates a B2B platform, Stride Together, through which the company licences its proprietary platform to gaming operators, media partners and retailers in the UK and globally, enabling them to create an online presence for their customers and enabling Stride to penetrate new and non-bingo verticals both within UK markets and overseas territories.
Further information on the Group is available at: http://www.stridegaming.com/
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSES OF ARTICLE 7 OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU) 596/2014.