Publication of Prospectus

RNS Number : 5310B

Premier Foods plc

04 March 2014

 



4 March 2014

Premier Foods plc

NOT FOR PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND, JAPAN OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. OTHER RESTRICTIONS ARE APPLICABLE. PLEASE SEE THE IMPORTANT NOTICE AT THE END OF THE PRESS RELEASE.

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS AN ADVERTISEMENT AND NOT A PROSPECTUS AND INVESTORS SHOULD NOT SUBSCRIBE FOR OR PURCHASE ANY SECURITIES REFERRED TO IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT EXCEPT ON THE BASIS OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE PROSPECTUS.

PUBLICATION OF PROSPECTUS AND CIRCULAR

Further to the announcement made by Premier Foods plc (the "Company") earlier today relating to the Capital Refinancing Plan, the Company announces that the Prospectus in respect of the proposed Placing and Rights Issue has been approved by the Financial Conduct Authority and will shortly be available for viewing on the Company's website at http://www.premierfoods.co.uk.  The Circular, containing a notice convening a General Meeting to be held at Hilton London West End, 92 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4BH at 10.00 a.m. on 20 March 2014, will be posted to shareholders today.

The Prospectus and the Circular will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism, where they will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.  The Company's financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2013 have also been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism.

Copies of the Prospectus and the Circular are also available at the Company's registered address.

Capitalised terms used in this announcement have the meanings given to them in the Prospectus.

For further information, please contact:

Institutional investors and analysts:
Alastair Murray, Chief Financial Officer	[phone]
Richard Godden, Head of Investor Relations	[phone]
Media enquiries:
Richard Johnson, Group Corporate Affairs Director	[phone]
Maitland Liz Morley Tom Eckersley	[phone]
Enquiries on the Capital Refinancing Plan
Jefferies International Limited Paul Nicholls Neil Collingridge Lee Morton	[phone]
Credit Suisse Ian Carnegie-Brown Stuart Field Kaan Kesedar	[phone]
HSBC Nick Donald Stuart Dickson James Horsburgh	[phone]

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A PROSPECTUS OR ANY OFFER OF SECURITIES FOR SALE OR A SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO PURCHASE ANY SECURITIES IN THE UNITED STATES (AS DEFINED IN THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (the "SECURITIES ACT")), OR IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.

Any securities referred to in this announcement have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act"), or with any securities regulatory authority of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States, and may not be offered, sold, resold, pledged, taken up, delivered, distributed or transferred, directly or indirectly, into or within the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and in compliance with any applicable securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States. No public offering of any securities is being made in the United States.

 

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