Placing/Admission/TVR Update

18 Jan 2008 16:30

Merchant House Group PLC18 January 2008 18th January 2008 Merchant House Group PLC ("MHG" or the "Company") (GB 0000577386) PLACING, ADMISSION & TVR UPDATE Following the announcement made on 24th December, 2007 regarding a placing ofshares to raise up to £650,000, the Board of Merchant House Group PLC is pleasedto announce the placing of the final tranche of 10,000,000 Ordinary Shares of0.5p at a price of 1.7832p each, raising £178,320, with each share issuedcarrying a warrant that is convertible into one share at a conversion price of2p per warrant, exercisable for two years. The total raised to date is£697,129. Application has today been made to the AIM market of the London Stock Exchangefor the admission of 10,000,000 new Ordinary Shares of 0.5p each, to satisfythis final tranche of the placing and dealings are expected to commence onFriday 25th January 2008. As a result of the issue of the new Ordinary Shares, the issued share capital isnow 81,446,600. The Company does not hold any shares in treasury and there isno other class of share in issue which has voting rights. Consequently MHG'stotal number of voting rights is 81,446,600 and this figure may be used byshareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they willdetermine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to theirinterest in MHG, under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules. Press enquiries: Merchant House Group PLCMartin EberhardtTel: 020 7332 2200 Shore Capital and Corporate LimitedAlex BorrelliTel: 020 7408 4090 First City Financial Public RelationsAlan Piper0207 242 2666 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange