Placing
April 24 2009 - 11:09AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 1561R
Ludorum PLC
24 April 2009
LUDORUM PLC
24 April 2009
LUDORUM PLC (the 'Company')
Fundraising and Directors' Shareholdings
The Company is pleased to announce that it has successfully raised GBP0.45
million by way of a placing (the "Placing") of 324,000 new ordinary shares of 1p
each ("Ordinary Shares") in the capital of the Company at 140p per Ordinary
Share. The new Ordinary Shares were allotted on 24 April 2009.
The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing
issued ordinary share capital of the Company and application has been made for
the admission to AIM of the new Ordinary Shares and trading is expected to
commence on Friday 1 May 2009.
Following the Placing, the issued share capital of the Company will increase by
4% to 8,424,001 Ordinary Shares. In accordance with the Disclosure and
Transparency Rules, the Company confirms that its quoted issued share capital as
at the date of this announcement comprises 8,424,001 Ordinary Shares. This
figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by
which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a
change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Following the Placing, three of the directors of the Company increased their
holdings of Ordinary Shares, as set out in the table below:
+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| Director | Ordinary Shares acquired |
+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| Robert Lawes, Chief Executive | 50,000 |
| Officer | |
+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| Richard Rothkopf, Chairman | 71,429 |
+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| Charles Caminada, Chief Operating | 85,715 |
| Officer | |
+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
The directors acquired their Ordinary Shares at a price of 140p per Ordinary
Share.
Following the Placing the Directors will have the following interests in the
issued share capital of the Company:
+--------------+--------------+--------------+----------------+------------------+
| Director | Beneficial | % of issued | Non-Beneficial | % of issued |
| | Holding | share | Holding | share capital |
| | | capital | | |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+----------------+------------------+
| Robert Lawes | 650,471 | 7.72 | - | - |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+----------------+------------------+
| Richard | 460,900 | 5.47 | - | - |
| Rothkopf | | | | |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+----------------+------------------+
| Charles | 472,186 | 5.61 | - | - |
| Caminada | | | | |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+----------------+------------------+
For further information please contact:
Ludorum plc
Rob Lawes
Chief Executive
Tel: 020 8849 8735
Investec Investment Banking
Nominated Adviser to the Company
Ben Poynter
Tel: 020 7597 4000
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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