Issue of Ordinary Shares and PDMR Shareholdings

RNS Number : 5474Z

Tritax Big Box REIT plc

18 September 2015

 

18 September 2015

TRITAX BIG BOX REIT PLC

(the "Company")

Issue of Ordinary Shares under the Investment Management Agreement and PDMR Shareholdings

The Board of Tritax Big Box REIT plc (ticker: BBOX) announces that, in accordance with the terms of the management fee arrangements with Tritax Management LLP (the "Manager") pursuant to which 25 per cent. of the management fee is payable in new ordinary shares of £0.01 each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), it has today issued 290,795 Ordinary Shares (the "Management Ordinary Shares"), subject only to Admission (defined below).

The issue price per Management Ordinary Share is 114.68p (being the most recently published net asset value of 116.68p per Ordinary Share as at 30 June 2015, less the two interim dividends of 1.5p and 0.5p per Ordinary Share declared on 8 June 2015 and 21 August 2015 respectively).

Application has been made for the Management Ordinary Shares to be admitted to the premium segment of the Official List and to trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange. It is expected that dealings in the Management Ordinary Shares will commence at 8.00 a.m. on 21 September 2015 ("Admission").

The Ordinary Shares allotted and issued to the Manager set out above are subject to a minimum lock-in period of 12 months from Admission.

Director and PDMR Shareholdings

In accordance with DTR 3.1.4(1)(a), on Admission the beneficial interests of the directors of the Company and senior executives of the Investment Team with day-to-day management responsibility in connection with services provided to the Company will be as follows:

PDMR	Position	Number of Ordinary Shares held	% of issued share capital
Mark Shaw	Non-executive director and a member of Investment Team	320,094	0.05%
Colin Godfrey	Investment Team	248,535	0.04%
James Dunlop	Investment Team	248,535	0.04%
Henry Franklin	Investment Team	196,436	0.03%

Total Voting Rights

Immediately following Admission, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 677,840,088 Ordinary Shares with voting rights. 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 FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

Tritax Group Colin Godfrey (Partner, Fund Manager)	via Newgate (below)
Newgate (Financial PR) James Benjamin Andre Hamlyn	Tel: [phone] Email: [e-mail]
Jefferies International Limited Gary Gould Stuart Klein Alex Collins	Tel: [phone]
Akur Limited Anthony Richardson Tom Frost Siobhan Sergeant	Tel: [phone]

NOTES:

Tritax Big Box REIT plc is a real estate investment trust to which Part 12 of the UK Corporation Tax Act 2010 applies ("REIT"). The Company invests in and asset manages a portfolio of well-located, modern "Big Box" assets, typically targeting buildings greater than 500,000 sq. ft., let to institutional-grade tenants on long-term leases (typically between 12 and 25 years in length) with upward-only rent reviews (providing the potential for inflation linked earnings growth), and with geographic and tenant diversification throughout the UK. The Company seeks to exploit the significant opportunity in this sub-sector of the UK logistics market owing to strong tenant demand in high growth areas of the economy and limited stock supply. The Company is the first listed vehicle to give pure exposure to the "Big Box" asset class in the UK.

Further information on Tritax Big Box REIT is available at www.tritaxbigbox.co.uk

 

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