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Staffline Group PLC
09 June 2021
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(WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018 ("MAR").
9 June 2021
Staffline Group plc
("Staffline", the "Company" or the "Group")
Result of Open Offer
Staffline, the recruitment and training group, is pleased to
announce that further to the announcement of the Open Offer on 21
May 2021, it has conditionally raised total gross proceeds of
GBP4.4 million via the Open Offer.
Staffline is pleased to announce that it has received valid
acceptances under the Open Offer and the Excess Application
Facility significantly in excess of the 8,837,242 Open Offer Shares
available. Qualifying Shareholders who have validly applied for
Open Offer Shares will receive their full Basic Entitlement,
applications for New Ordinary Shares under the Excess Application
Facility will be scaled back as outlined in the Circular.
Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the
New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. On the
assumption that, amongst other things, the Resolutions are passed
by Shareholders at the General Meeting, it is expected that
Admission will become effective and that dealings in the New
Ordinary Shares will commence at 8.00 a.m. on 10 June 2021 (being
the business day following the General Meeting). The New Ordinary
Shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares.
New Ordinary Shares in uncertificated form are expected to be
credited to Shareholders who hold their Ordinary Shares in CREST
accounts on 10 June 2021. Definitive share certificates for New
Ordinary Shares are expected to be despatched to Shareholders who
hold their Ordinary Shares in certificated form within 10 business
days of Admission.
Related Party Transaction
Henry Spain Investment Services Limited is considered to be a
related party of the Company (the "Substantial Shareholder") for
the purposes of the AIM Rules by virtue of its status as a
substantial shareholder of the Company.
The Substantial Shareholder has agreed to subscribe for
10,081,616 New Ordinary Shares as part of the Placing and Open
Offer.
The Directors, having consulted with the Company's Nominated
Adviser, Liberum, consider that the terms of the participation in
the Placing and Open Offer by the Substantial Shareholder is fair
and reasonable insofar as the shareholders of the Company are
concerned.
Capitalised terms not otherwise defined in the text of this
announcement have the meanings given in the Company's announcement
of 21 May 2021 .
Enquiries:
Staffline Group plc via Vigo Consulting
www.stafflinegroupplc.co.uk
Albert Ellis, Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Quint, Chief Financial Officer
Liberum (Nominated Adviser and Sole
Bookrunner)
www.liberum.com
Bidhi Bhoma / Richard Lindley / William
Hall / Christopher Whitaker 020 3100 2222
Vigo Consulting ( Financial PR) 020 7390 0230
www.vigoconsulting.com staffline@vigoconsulting.com
Jeremy Garcia / Antonia Pollock
Market Abuse Regulation:
For the purposes of MAR, Article 2 of Commission Implementing
Regulation (EU) 2016/1055 and the UK version of such implementing
regulation, the person responsible for arranging for the release of
this Announcement on behalf of the Company is Daniel Quint, Chief
Financial Officer
About Staffline - Recruitment, Training and Support
Enabling the Future of Work(TM)
Staffline is the UK's market leading Recruitment and Training
group. It has three divisions:
Recruitment GB
Staffline is the UK's leading provider of flexible blue-collar
workers, supplying approximately 40,000 staff per day on average to
around 450 client sites, across a wide range of industries
including agriculture, supermarkets, drinks, driving, food
processing, logistics and manufacturing.
Recruitment Ireland
The recruitment Ireland business is a leading end to end
solutions provider operating across twenty industries, ten branch
locations, fifteen onsite customer locations and offering RPO, MSP,
temporary and permanent solutions across the island of Ireland.
PeoplePlus Division
Staffline is the leading adult skills and training provider in
the UK, delivering adult education, prison education and
skills-based employability programmes across the country.
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