QNI Offer - Publication of Target's Statement
October 05 2010 - 3:38AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 8598T
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited
05 October 2010
5 October 2010
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED
(ACN 104 261 887)
QNI Takeover Offer - Publication of Target's Statement
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited ("GPNL" or the "Company") announces that it has
lodged with the Australian Securities & Investments Commission ("ASIC") the
Company's Target's Statement, in response to the takeover offer by QNI Resources
Pty Ltd ("QNI") for all the shares in GPNL that it does not already own (the
"Offer"), which was announced on 12 August 2010.
Shareholders should carefully consider the Target's Statement, including the
recommendations of the Independent Director and the accompanying Independent
Expert's Report, before making a decision regarding QNI's Offer.
The Target's Statement contains a recommendation to GPNL shareholders by Dominic
Martino, as the only independent director of GPNL. Mr Martino recommends
shareholders REJECT the Offer if you have a medium to long term investment
horizon and you are prepared to accept the significant and material ongoing
risks of an investment in GPNL. However, if you do not wish to accept those
significant and material ongoing risks of an investment in GPNL or have a
shorter term investment horizon, you may wish to CONSIDER ACCEPTING QNI's Offer.
The key reasons for Mr Martino's recommendation are set out in the Target's
Statement.
The Target's Statement contains an Independent Expert's report. The Independent
Expert has concluded that the Offer is not fair and not reasonable.
The Target's Statement also contains draft unaudited accounts for GPNL for the
year ended 30 June 2010. Audited financial statements are expected to be
released on or around 8 October 2010.
The takeover offer period commenced on 21 September 2010 and unless withdrawn or
extended in accordance with the Corporations Act is open until 5:00pm (Sydney
time) on 25 October 2010.
A copy of the Target's Statement is available on the Company's website
www.gladstonepacific.com.au and will be despatched to GPNL Shareholders by
5:00pm (Brisbane time) Wednesday, 6 October 2010.
ENDS
For more information or comment
Julien McInally - Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd
Tel:+61(0)7 3231 7100
Fiona Owen / Robert Beenstock - Grant Thornton Corporate Finance
Tel:+44 20 7383 5100
Richard Johnson - Arbuthnot Securities
Tel: +44 20 7012 2000
Email: info@gladstonepacific.com.au
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited is an Australian mining development company
presently undertaking an Integrated Definitive Feasibility Study for the
Gladstone Nickel Project. The Company's vision is to build a major long-life
nickel cobalt refinery at the deepwater Port of Gladstone, in Central
Queensland, Australia, treating abundant high grade nickel laterite ores from
New Caledonia and other south-west Pacific islands, underpinned by beneficiated
ores from its own Marlborough deposits. The Project has the potential to be one
of the largest of its type in the world producing some 126,000 tpa nickel (8 -
10% of global nickel demand) and 10,400 tpa of cobalt metal from its first two
stages.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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