DGAP-News: Offering of shares in Matas to retail investors closes today
(firmenpresse) - Matas A/S
24.06.2013 14:00
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Company announcement 2/2013
Alleroed, 24 June 2013
NOT FOR PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR
INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AUSTRALIA, CANADA OR JAPAN
This announcement is not a prospectus but a company announcement and nothing
herein contains an offering of securities. No one should purchase or subscribe
for any securities in Matas A/S ('Matas' or the 'Company') except on the basis
of information in the Offering Circular published by Matas in connection with
the potential offering and admission of such securities to trading and official
listing on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen A/S ('NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen').
Following the announcement of its publishing of an Offering Circular on 13 June
2013, Matas today announces that it has decided that the offering of Matas
shares to retail investors in Denmark for individual orders up to and including
DKK 3 million each will be closed at 16:00 CET today, Monday, 24 June 2013.
The offering to retail investors is being closed as retail investors have
placed orders for Matas shares which in the aggregate exceed the expected
allocation of Offer Shares to orders up to and including DKK 3 million each in
the Offering.
Information about the offer price and allocation is expected to be announced on
Friday, 28 June 2013.
Enquiries
Terje List, CEO Matas A/S, tel +45 48 16 55 55
Soeren Vestergaard-Poulsen, CVC Capital Partners, tel +44 207 420 4200
Lars Frederiksen, Chairman, Materialisternes Invest Holding ApS tel +45 40 20
66 35
Investors:
Jesper Breitenstein, Investor Relations, tel +45 27 80 76 75
Media:
Henrik Engberg Johannsen, Information Manager, Matas A/S, tel +45 21 71 24 74
Per Bech Thomsen, Impact Communications, tel +45 31 37 31 33
About Matas
Matas is the largest health and beauty retailer in Denmark. Since its
incorporation in 1949 as an association of independently owned stores, the
Company has developed a strong reputation for professional advice and customer
service excellence that it has leveraged to establish one of the best-known
retail chains in Denmark. Matas offers a distinctive one-stop retail concept
which serves a broad range of health, beauty, household and personal care
needs. The Company has more than 2,400 employees and in the financial year
2012/13, revenue amounted to DKK 3,200 million.
The Offer Shares have not been and will not be registered under the U.S.
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the 'U.S. Securities Act') and are being
offered and sold (i) in the United States only to persons who are 'qualified
institutional buyers' in reliance on Rule 144A under the U.S. Securities Act or
pursuant to another available exemption from, or a transaction not subject to,
the registration requirements under the U.S. Securities Act, and (ii) outside
the United States in compliance with Regulation S under the U.S. Securities
Act. Prospective investors are hereby notified that sellers of the Offer
Shares may be relying on the exemption from the registration requirements of
Section 5 of the U.S. Securities Act provided by Rule 144A. For certain
restrictions on transfer of the Offer Shares, see 'Transfer Restrictions' in
the Offering Circular. The distribution of this document and the offer of the
Offer Shares in certain jurisdictions are restricted by law. Personsinto whose
possession this document comes are required by the Company, the Selling
Shareholders and the Managers to inform themselves about and to observe such
restrictions. For a description of certain restrictions on offers of Offer
Shares and on distribution of this document, see 'Selling Restrictions' in the
Offering Circular.
In any Member State of the EEA other than Denmark that has implemented the
Prospectus Directive, this announcement is only addressed to, and is only
directed at, investors in that EEA member state who fulfil the criteria for
exemption from the obligation to publish a prospectus, including qualified
investors, within the meaning of the Prospectus Directive as implemented in
each such EEA Member State.
This announcement is only directed at (i) persons who are outside the United
Kingdom, (ii) to investment professionals falling within Article 19(5) of the
U.K. Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005
(the 'Order') or (iii) high net worth entities falling within Article 49(2)(a)
to (d) of the Order (the persons described in (i) through (iii) above together
being referred to as 'relevant persons'). The securities are only available to,
and any invitation, offer or agreement to subscribe, purchase or otherwise
acquire such securities will be engaged in only with, relevant persons. Any
person who is not a relevant person should not act or rely on this announcement
or any of its contents.
Stabilisation/FCA
The Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners and the Co-lead Managers
and their affiliates are acting exclusively for Matas A/S and the selling
shareholders and no-one else in connection with the IPO. They will not regard
any other person as their respective clients in relation to the IPO and will
not be responsible to anyone other than Matas A/S and the selling shareholders
for providing the protections afforded to their respective clients, nor for
providing advice in relation to the IPO, the contents of this communication or
any transaction, arrangement or other matter referred to herein.
In connection with the IPO, the Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners
and the Co-lead Managers and any of their affiliates, acting as investors for
their own accounts, may purchase Shares and in that capacity may retain,
purchase, sell, offer to sell or otherwise deal for their own accounts in such
Shares and other securities of Matas A/S or related investments in connection
with the IPO or otherwise. Accordingly, references in the Offering Circular to
the Shares being offered, acquired, placed or otherwise dealt in should be read
as including any offer to, acquisition, placing or dealing by, such Joint
Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners and the Co-lead Managers and any of
their affiliates acting as investors for their own accounts. The Joint Global
Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners and the Co-lead Managers do not intend to
disclose the extent of any such investment or transactions otherwise than in
accordance with any legal or regulatory obligations to do so.
Matters discussed in this communication may constitute forward-looking
statements. Forward-looking statements are statements (other than statements of
historical fact) relating to future events and anticipated or planned financial
and operational performance and can be identified by words such as 'targets',
'believes', 'expects', 'aims', 'intends', 'plans', 'seeks', 'will', 'may',
'might', 'anticipates', 'would', 'could', 'should', 'continues', 'estimate' or
similar expressions. The forward-looking statements in this communication are
based upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further
assumptions. Although Matas A/S believes that these assumptions were reasonable
when made, these assumptions are inherently subject to significant known and
unknown risks, uncertainties, contingencies and other important factors which
are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond its control. Such risks,
uncertainties, contingencies and other important factors could cause actual
events to differ materially from the expectations expressed or implied in this
communication by such forward-looking statements.
The information, opinions and forward-looking statements contained in this
announcement speak only as at its date, and are subject to change without
notice.
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Language: English
Company: Matas A/S
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