
Share Capital
1. Share Capital
The main events in the capital history of the Company from 1 December 2002 to the date of this document are as follows:
- On 1 December 2002, the authorised share capital of the Company was £2,000,000 divided into 8,000,000 ordinary shares of 25p each, of which 857,142 ordinary shares of 25p each were in issue fully paid or credited as fully paid
- Between December 2002 and May 2004, 5,662,220 ordinary shares of 25p each were issued to raise approximately £3.6 million.
- On 31 January 2006 the Company converted its CULS into ordinary shares of 25p on 31 January 2006 at a rate of £2.00 per share
- On 7 February and 3 March 2006, 13,311,990 new Ordinary Shares were placed to raise approximately €39 million
- 27 January 2006 the authorised share capital of the Company was increased to £5,000,000 divided into 20,000,000 ordinary shares of 25p each
- 24 February 2006 the authorised share capital of the Company was increased to £30,000,000 divided into 120,000,000 ordinary shares of 25p each
- On 20 June 2006 the authorised and issued share capital of the Company was subdivided into 600,000,000 Ordinary Shares of 5p each
- On 12 June 2009 96,760,349 new Ordinary Shares were placed to raise approximately £11.6 million.
- On 16 July 2009 the new Chief Executive Officer, Rowen Bainbridge, subscribed for 180,000 new ordinary shares of 5 pence each at the 14 pence per share.
- On 3 February 2010, 106,433,438 new Ordinary Shares were placed to raise approximately €39 million.
- On 3 December 2010, 146,888,231 Ordinary Shares were placed to raise approximately €100 million.
Under the terms of the resolutions passed on 2 December 2010, the directors have power to allot a further 324,389,000 shares of which 162,194,500 can only be allotted in a Rights Issue. 500,000 shares have so far been issued under these powers.
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Note: On 20 June 2006 each ordinary share of 25p was subdivided into 5 Ordinary Shares; the issues post that date therefore are expressed in relation to 5p Ordinary Shares.
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2. Substantial Shareholding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
At 2 December 2011.
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3. Directors Declarable Interests
◦ Dariusz Mioduski and Manoj Madnani are jointly interested non-beneficially in the shares shown – they are therefore only included once in the total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In August 2006, the Company issued warrants to advisers pursuant to the listing of the entire issued share capital on AIM. On 21 August 2011 the remaining warrants were either exercised or lapsed.
There are currently 6,043,954 options to management and staff outstanding. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5. Shares under Control of the Board | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
At the General Meeting held on 3 February 2010, the following resolution was passed: 3 That in substitution for all subsisting authorities to the extent unused, the Directors be and they are hereby empowered pursuant to section 570 and section 573 CA 2006 to allot equity securities (within the meaning of section 560 CA 2006) as if section 561 CA 2006 did not apply to any such allotment, provided that this power shall be limited to:
and this Resolution 3 shall expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company after the passing of this Resolution 3 or 30 June 2011, whichever is the earlier, except that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the power conferred hereby had not expired.. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There are currently no restrictions on the transfer of AIM Securities. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||