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16 August 2019
UNIPHAR PLC
Exercise of Over-Allotment Option
Uniphar plc (the "Company") today announces that, in connection with its Placing and Admission (the "Offering"), J&E Davy, as stabilisation manager, has given notice to exercise the over-allotment option granted by Uniphar plc in respect of 3,818,004 Ordinary Shares in the Company (the "Over-allotment Shares") amounting to €4.39 million of further gross proceeds payable to the Company resulting in total gross proceeds of €139 million from the Placing.
Application has been made for 3,818,004 Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on Euronext Growth, a market operated by Euronext Dublin and AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. It is expected that such admission will occur at 8.00 a.m. (Dublin time) on 21 August 2019.
Following the exercise of the Over-allotment Option and issue of the 3,818,004 Over-allotment Shares, the total issued share capital of the Company will be 273,015,254 Ordinary Shares.
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For further details contact:
Uniphar
Brian O'Shaughnessy Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Development
| +353 (0) 1 428 7777
investor.relations@Uniphar.ie
|
Davy (Joint Broker, Nominated Adviser and Euronext Growth Adviser)
Fergal Meegan Barry Murphy Tom Tynan
| +353 (0) 1 679 6363 |
RBC Capital Markets (Joint Broker) Darrell Uden Jonathan Hardy Thomas Debrosse
| +44 (0) 20 7653 4000 |
Q4 PR (Public Relations Adviser to Uniphar)
Iarla Mongey
| +353 (0) 1 475 1444 or +353 87 235 6461 |
About Uniphar plc
Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Uniphar plc is a diversified healthcare services business servicing the requirements of more than 200 multinational pharmaceutical and medical technology manufacturers across three divisions - Commercial & Clinical, Product Access, and Supply Chain & Retail. With a workforce of more than 2,000, the Group is active in Ireland, the UK, the Benelux and the US.
In Commercial & Clinical, the Group provides sales, marketing and distribution solutions to pharmaceutical and medical devices manufacturers on an outsourced basis.
In Product Access, the Group is growing two distinct service offerings: 1) sourcing and supplying unlicensed medicines to meet the needs of pharmacy customers (On-Demand Access); and 2) managing the release of speciality medicines for pharmaceutical manufacturers to specifically approved patient populations (Exclusive Access).
Supply Chain & Retail is an Irish only business for the Group, with Uniphar being an established market leader in Ireland with c.50% of the wholesale market servicing retail pharmacy, supported by a network of 235 owned and franchised pharmacies.
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