Completion of the sale of France Galva SA
4 October 2022
Hill & Smith Holdings PLC
Completion of the sale of France Galva SA
Hill & Smith Holdings PLC is pleased to announce that the sale of France Galva SA to a consortium comprising ZINQ France SAS and Sofigalva SAS completed on 4 October 2022.
ENDS
For further information, please contact:
Hill & Smith Holdings PLC Tel: +44 (0)121 704 7434
Alan Giddins, Executive Chair
Hannah Nichols, Chief Financial Officer
MHP Communications Tel: +44 (0)20 3128 8613
Andrew Jaques
Rachel Farrington
Catherine Chapman
Rothschild & Co (Financial Adviser and Sponsor to Hill & Smith) Tel: +44 (0)20 7280 5000
Alistair Allen
Notes to Editors
Hill & Smith Holdings PLC creates sustainable infrastructure and safe transport through innovation. The Group employs c. 3,700 people worldwide with the majority employed by its autonomous, agile, customer focussed operating businesses based in the UK, USA, Australia, India and Sweden. The Group office is in the UK and it is quoted on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: HILS.L).
The Group's operating businesses are organised into three main business divisions:
Galvanizing Services: dramatically increasing the sustainability and maintenance free life of steel products including structural steel work, lighting, bridges, agricultural and other products for the industrial and infrastructure markets.
Engineered Solutions: supplying engineered steel and composite solutions with low embodied energy for a wide range of infrastructure markets including energy generation and distribution, marine, rail and housing. The division also supplies engineered pipe supports for the water, power and liquid natural gas markets and seismic protection solutions.
Roads & Security: supplying products and services to support road and highway infrastructure including temporary and permanent road safety barriers, renewable energy lighting and power solutions, Intelligent Traffic Solutions, street lighting columns and bridge parapets. The security portfolio includes hostile vehicle mitigation solutions, high security fencing and automated gate solutions.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement, oral statements made regarding the Disposal, and other information published in connection with the Disposal contain statements which are, or may be deemed to be, "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements are prospective in nature and are not based on historical facts, but rather on current expectations and projections about future events and are therefore subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from the future results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "plans", "is expected", "estimates", "forecasts", "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "should", "would", or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved.
Although Hill & Smith believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, Hill & Smith can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. There are a number of factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include factors such as future market conditions, currency fluctuations, the behaviour of other market participants, the actions of regulators and other factors such as changes in the political, social and regulatory framework in which Hill & Smith operates or in economic or technological trends or conditions. Other unknown or unpredictable factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements should therefore be construed in the light of such factors.
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Important information relating to the financial adviser and sponsor
N.M. Rothschild & Sons Limited ("Rothschild & Co"), which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom, is acting exclusively for Hill & Smith and no one else in connection with the matters described in this announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other than Hill & Smith for providing the protections afforded to clients of Rothschild & Co nor for providing advice in connection with any matter referred to herein. Neither Rothschild & Co nor any of its affiliates (nor their respective directors, officers, employees or agents) owes or accepts any duty, liability or responsibility whatsoever (whether direct or indirect, whether in contract, in tort, under statute or otherwise) to any person who is not a client of Rothschild & Co in connection with this announcement, any statement contained herein or otherwise.
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