EGM

Property & Capital Group PLC 2 May 2000 PROPERTY & CAPITAL GROUP PLC Property & Capital Group PLC (the 'Group') is today convening an Extraordinary General Meeting to be held on 25 May 2000 to consider the following Resolutions to: 1. Create Convertible Shares of 20p each and to apply funds derived from share premium account to pay up Convertible Shares by way of bonus issue to holders of Ordinary Shares at 31 May 2000; 2. Amend the Articles of Association to reflect Resolution 1; 3. Change the name of the Company to 'CapitalTech plc'; 4. Approve the purchase by the Company of 194,594 Ordinary Shares from Raven Close Nominees Limited; 5. Authorise the Directors to acquire PCG Residential Lettings (No. 7) Limited from the Adair Trusts; and 6. Authorise the Directors to acquire up to 10% of the BCL Group from the Adair Trusts. The text of the accompanying Chairman's Letter and of 'The CapitalTech Strategy', also circulated to shareholders, are appended:- The Chairman's Letter: Introduction Your Directors propose the creation of Convertible Shares ('Convertible Shares') having a nominal value of 20p each, and their issue (for no monetary consideration) by way of a bonus issue of one Convertible Share for every 10 Ordinary Shares (of nominal value 2p each) held, to all holders of Ordinary Shares on 31 May 2000 (excepting those referred to in Resolution 4 below). The Company continues to make good progress towards acquisition of further property for shares, in contemplation of which the share capital was increased on 10 March 2000. The strategy of the Company is described in the booklet 'The CapitalTech Strategy' enclosed with this document. As you are aware, the Company has made investments in the 'high-tech' sector. This has led to several press articles and an increase in the liquidity of our shares has been evident. The Directors consider that there is significant upside potential in certain of the high-tech investments due to transactions in contemplation. Until these transactions take place it is not possible to properly revalue these investments in the balance sheet. Resolution 1 - Creation of Convertible Shares Therefore, prior to making the further property acquisitions referred to above, it is desired to make a bonus distribution in the form of new Convertible Shares to existing holders of Ordinary Shares. The Convertible Shares will, subject to the maximum number of New Ordinary Shares into which they may be converted, carry all increase in value of the relevant Investments after 8 February 2000, or, if later, the date of acquisition of the Investments in respect of high-tech investments made up to 31 May 2000. The date of 8 February 2000 is considered appropriate as it was the date of acquisition by the Company of PCG which was the occasion of the last publication of a pro forma balance sheet of the Group. The Convertible Shares will be convertible into New Ordinary Shares on the basis of increase in value of Investments relative to group net asset value on 31 May 2001, or, in part, earlier upon certain events, for example a listing of one of the Investments. Dates and Numbers of Convertible Shares The Record Date for issue of the Convertible Shares will be close of business on 31 May 2000 and will exclude the Ordinary Shares referred to in Resolution 4 below (which are to be purchased by the Company). Convertible Shares will be issued to holders of Ordinary Shares on the Register of Members on that date and such issue will be pro rata to their respective holdings of Ordinary Shares. It is intended to issue one Convertible Share of nominal value 20p for every 10 Ordinary Shares (of nominal value 2p) then held. Each Convertible Share will be capable of conversion and subdivision - depending upon the future performance of the relevant Investments - into a maximum of 10 New Ordinary Shares. Any balance will be converted into Deferred Shares which may be redeemed by the Company for a nominal consideration. Thus, subject to that performance, your shareholding may, for each 10 Ordinary Shares currently held, give rise to an entitlement to up to 10 New Ordinary Shares. Convertible Shares, Conversion and New Ordinary Shares The Convertible Shares will convert on 31 May 2001, or partially earlier upon certain events, for example a listing of one of the Investments. They will convert into New Ordinary Shares at a rate determined by the relationship which the increase in value of the relevant Investments (or one of them on such a partial conversion occasion) bears to the net asset value of the Company under deduction of such total increase. On a Conversion, in part or in whole, the appropriate proportion of each Convertible Share will automatically be converted into New Ordinary Shares. The balance, if a partial Conversion, will remain as a Convertible Share with a lesser nominal value than 20p, or if upon (final) Conversion on 31 May 2001, will convert into Deferred Shares which will be repurchased by the Company at nominal consideration. The Convertible Shares will not carry right to dividends except out of revenue from the relevant Investments (which is not expected as the Investments comprise companies at an early stage of development). The New Ordinary Shares arising from Conversion will rank in all respects pari passu with existing Ordinary Shares after conversion including as to dividend. Each Convertible Share will carry the right to one vote (whatever its nominal value) at general meetings of members. Resolution 2 - Amendment of Articles of Association The Articles of Association will be amended to reflect the creation of the Convertible Shares. Resolution 3 - Change of name to 'CapitalTech plc' As indicated to you previously, the Directors are of the view that the Company name should be changed to 'CapitalTech plc' to reflect the strategy as described in the enclosed booklet - the bedrock of a sound property portfolio and the making of further investments in the high-tech sector. Resolution 4 - Purchase of Own Shares from Raven Close Nominees Limited Raven Fulham Limited, later renamed PCG Fulham Limited, was purchased by the Company from Raven Close Nominees Limited in May 1999 for a combination of loan stock and shares. Following the profitable sale by the Company of all property so acquired and the repayment of the loan stock, the Directors consider that it would be appropriate to utilise part of the profit from this transaction to repurchase 194,594 Ordinary Shares issued as part of the consideration. While the Company has the general power to purchase its own shares, each contract to do so requires specific approval by members and the terms of the contract for the proposed purchase are summarised in Resolution 4 in the Notice of EGM. The price per share has been fixed at £1.85 being the mid market price on 28 April 2000. Raven Close Nominees Limited will not vote on this Resolution 4. Resolution 5 - To Authorise the Directors to acquire PCG Residential Lettings (No.7) Limited from the Adair Trusts This is an enabling Resolution. Your executive Directors are considering the possible purchase from the Adair Trusts, of which your chairman Robert Adair is a beneficiary, of PCG Residential Lettings (No.7) Limited, which is in the course of acquiring a former BES company holding inter alia a residential portfolio in the South East of England. Your executive Directors consider that it could be appropriate for the Company to make this purchase for the purpose of adding the residential portfolio to our present residential holdings. The basis for purchase - at a price not exceeding its net asset value, which is not expected to exceed £5 million, to be satisfied by cash, loan stock or shares or a mix thereof - reflects that negotiations are not yet advanced. In terms of the Companies Acts, such a transaction with a party connected with a Director cannot take place unless approved in advance by members. Hence the advance approval is sought. If the transaction is to proceed, a further Announcement will be made and sent to members with the view of the Nominated Adviser thereon. None of Robert or his wife Lucy Adair or the Adair Trusts, having an interest therein, will vote on this Resolution. Resolution 6 - To Authorise the Directors to acquire up to 10% of the BCL Group from the Adair Trusts Again this is an enabling resolution, on which none of Robert or Lucy Adair or the Adair Trusts will vote, required under the Companies Acts. If this transaction is to proceed, a further Announcement would be made and circulated with the view of the Nominated Adviser. 'BCL Group' means BCL International Holdings plc, its subsidiaries and associates and includes Earlycall Limited through which the Adair Trusts hold part of their interest therein. Our subsidiary MSS has just commenced some work for the BCL Group which may assist it towards a public listing. If this is the path to be followed by the BCL Group, your executive Directors would wish the Company to have an interest, to be acquired from and held alongside a larger holding by the Adair Trusts, particularly if this can be acquired at a pre-flotation value. We would not acquire more than 10% of the BCL Group and would not wish to invest more than £1.5 million, and again this might be by shares, loan stock or cash or a mix thereof. While we have put a maximum on the percentage and cost of a prospective holding, these should each be considered as a maximum, not indicating a valuation of the BCL Group. The BCL Group is an established contractor in information technology recruitment with a turnover of some £13 million per annum, principal offices in London and Warrington and some very exciting projects under advanced development. Resolutions 1-4 (inclusive) will be proposed as special resolutions, and Resolutions 5 and 6 as ordinary resolutions. The CapitalTech Strategy: The most significant event in our recent history occurred on February 8, 2000 when we acquired PCG Residential Lettings Holdings plc, adding its residential property portfolio of £55 million to our own £21 million portfolio. These additional resources have given us credibility in terms of market capitalisation. Since then we have made selective disposals to reduce gearing, improve portfolio balance and to make alternative investments towards achieving our corporate strategy. That strategy consists of two elements. 1. The foundation of our plan is to maintain our substantial residential property portfolio at around £40 million. We seek good rental yield on this to be sufficient both to cover all interest on loans taken to acquire property AND to meet the WHOLE of the Group overheads. In addition, the property must be of a standard to realise steady capital growth. Our portfolio is a comparatively safe investment and is geographically spread throughout the United Kingdom which allows the Group to benefit from local market conditions. For example, for the Glasgow properties the objective is yield on steady value. In Manchester it is growth and reasonable yield. While in London, as you might expect, it is growth. Our wide range of contacts in the property world will continue to give us opportunities to increase shareholder value by selective property deals. By undertaking an ambitious acquisition programme of residential property companies the Group has acquired a great deal of expertise and experience in these fields. These skills will be invaluable in driving forwards a strong property portfolio which the Group is also using as a launch-pad for diversification. 2. From these bedrock strengths we now propose to allocate resources to identify sound investments in the high-tech sector. Currently, the most significant aspect of these is our co-investor arrangement with Skye Capital Partners. Skye Capital Partners over the past three years has made over £14 million of such investments and commitments in a portfolio concentrated on Internet protocol (IP) telephony, telematics and information technology contracting, including an investment in the US public company Science Dynamics Corporation. Science Dynamics is in strategic alliance with Hewlett Packard and Cisco Systems, two of the leaders and dominant names in the information technology and Internet fields. As an example of the advantages we derive from this relationship with Skye Capital, we have been able to accept an opportunity to invest in Telematix before it becomes publicly available. Telematix, of Hampshire, has developed a leading edge core telematics systems which has wide application. The first of these uses satellite and GSM cellular links, for the purpose of monitoring vehicles and moving objects - vehicle security (e-Guard) and fleet management (e-Matix). We have been able to invest at an early stage just after it started to sell its initial product range in December 1999 after years of development. Again, as a close associate of Skye Capital we invested in @IPBell Holdings - one of the first next generation operations for simultaneous transport of multi-media traffic, including voice, video, fax and data, across a worldwide network of nodes. @IPBell will provide the backbone equipment, marketing and worldwide presence enabling individual in-country operators to offer their customers access to the most technologically advanced network in the world, marketed under the one brand name. The network will use Internet protocols to provide a carrier-class telephony service at a fraction of the cost of current call charges. In addition to Skye Capital and the Group, @IPBell strategic funders include Cisco, Hewlett Packard and Iceland Telecom. OPERATIONS In moving the above strategy forward the Group relies on three internal components: Specialist Group Service Companies An Executive Team An Investment Committee SPECIALIST COMPANIES The specialist companies are particularly relevant. They allow the Group to react quickly and cost-effectively to any opportunity. And they enable the Group to do this at a fraction of the cost and time which would be involved in instructing others. Mercantile Securities (Scotland) Limited is a Corporate Finance subsidiary, regulated by the Securities and Futures Authority, which can draft, verify and approve for the Group offers for shares in companies or offers to acquire the whole of other companies. This is an area in which the Group has been very active over the last year. Park Circus Registrars Limited provides receiving agent services in the course of acquisitions. Both these companies are themselves profitable and carry out services - when time permits - for outside clients. For example, Park Circus Registrars acts as registrars to a number of public companies, several of which, like the Group, are traded on AiM or the full list. THE EXECUTIVE TEAM CapitalTech intends to rely on a small, compact, easy-to-work-together executive team, presently comprising substantial input from the Chairman Robert Adair and four full time executives. The team is: Robert Adair, MA, ACA, ATII, aged 43, Chairman of the Group, has wide professional and commercial experience. He graduated in Geology from Oxford University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co where he specialised in Oil and Gas Taxation, then spending time in Corporate Finance in the City. He is Chairman of Melrose Resources PLC, Terrace Hill Holdings Limited, a manufacturing holding company, and of Terrace Hill Limited, a property development group. Ross Macdonald, BL, NP, aged 61, Chief Executive, is a Solicitor and SFA Corporate Finance Representative. With much experience in Corporate Finance, he has over the last twelve years been heavily involved in residential property as promoter and then director of many residential property companies formed under the Business Expansion Scheme. Sean Cufley, BA, FCA, aged 44, Group Finance Director, is a Chartered Accountant. Since 1986 he has worked in the property sector and is a former Finance Director of Tarmac Properties Limited. Before joining the Group he was a Director of Commercial Management Limited, which specialised in commercial property management and investment. Miranda Kelly, LLB, NP, aged 30, an SFA Securities Representative, is a Director of the Group and Group Company Secretary, qualified as a Solicitor at Strathclyde University and with McGrigor Donald, Glasgow. Since joining the Group in 1996 she has had substantial involvement in corporate finance transactions, with particular emphasis on property company acquisition. Charlotte Reynolds, LLB, aged 23, is a Law Graduate of the University of Manchester and an SFA Securities Representative, who joined the Group in 1998, since when she too has substantial corporate finance experience, again with an emphasis on property company acquisition. THE INVESTMENT COMMITTEE John Minshull-Beech, ACA, aged 44, also qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Arthur Andersen. John spent four years in Morgan Grenfell's corporate finance department, then ten years at Chelsfield plc with senior executive responsibility for its larger joint ventures and venture capital investments. He has been Managing Director of Skye Capita Partners since 1998. Guy Brennan, MA, aged 39, a shareholder in the Group, is a former Managing Director, Corporate Finance, of ABN Amro Bank NV. Guy is currently Senior Adviser to RBB Bank A.G. (Austria), a Director of US Value Investment Company Limited (New York), Cedar Audio Limited (Cambridge) and director/designate of Macroplay.com (San Francisco). Nicolas Shulman, LLB, aged 22, winner of the Helen S. Gibbons Prize (Commercial Law) and Jelf Medal at King's College, London, is Joint MD of Adrenaline Media Ltd. FURTHER INVESTMENTS The Group holds an investment of some 600,000 shares in Auxinet Ltd (having made a part disposal at 65p), which were acquired at 3p and carried at 2p. Small investments are also held in Birchin International plc (also turning to the Internet) and a start-up investment, recently increased, in The East India Company (Holdings) plc. The Group intends to seek new opportunities in e-commerce, with a keener interest in new technology or expansion of existing businesses than in potentially transient dot.com super-novas. In contemplating new opportunities, the Group reckons that it is as important to select the right people as to read yet another business plan. The first small investments are: DiversityNow Ltd, at an early stage of development in graduate recruitment, but with a user-friendly web-site and original business features, whose founding principals include Peter Harrison (ex Goldman Sachs), known to Miranda Kelly. Adrenaline Media Ltd, of which one of the founders is our Investment Committee member Nicolas Shulman - with his family known to the Group through years of business - will shortly launch an international student web-site AnythingStudent.com. Clearly these two investments have a potential relationship with each other and with information technology contracting in which Skye Capital Partners is invested - and in which the Group is taking more than a passing interest. Our property contacts have also given us the opportunity to make a most interesting investment in e-commerce in the property sector. We have agreed to acquire, in part consideration for the transfer of a subsidiary which (presently by contracting out) manages our residential property, 5% of the equity of Spacetorent.com Limited, a company equally owned by its management and by Delancey Estates plc. Spacetorent.com Limited plans to be the largest property rental web-site in the UK and Europe and is likely to be publicly quoted itself in the relatively near future.

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