ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE MADE BY THE AIM APPLICANT PRIOR TO ADMISSION IN
ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 2 OF THE AIM RULES FOR COMPANIES ("AIM RULES")
COMPANY NAME:
Victorian Plumbing Group plc ("Victorian Plumbing" or "the Group")
Proposed AIM TIDM: VIC
COMPANY REGISTERED OFFICE ADDRESS AND IF DIFFERENT, COMPANY
TRADING ADDRESS (INCLUDING POSTCODES) :
Registered office address:
22 Grimrod Place
Skelmersdale
WN8 9UU
COUNTRY OF INCORPORATION:
England and Wales
COMPANY WEBSITE ADDRESS CONTAINING ALL INFORMATION REQUIRED BY AIM
RULE 26:
www.victorianplumbingplc.com
(website content and copy to be updated ahead of
Admission to fully comply with Rule 26 obligations)
COMPANY BUSINESS (INCLUDING
MAIN COUNTRY OF OPERATION) OR, IN THE
CASE OF AN
INVESTING COMPANY, DETAILS OF ITS
INVESTING POLICY). IF THE
ADMISSION IS SOUGHT AS A RESULT OF A REVERSE TAKE-OVER UNDER RULE
14, THIS SHOULD BE STATED:
Victorian Plumbing is a digitally native retailer of bathroom products and accessories,
offering a wide range of over 24,000 products to B2C and trade customers. The Group has
grown rapidly in recent years and is now, according to Mintel, the UK's leading specialist
bathroom brand and the second largest retailer of bathroom products by revenue.
Victorian Plumbing offers its customers a one-stop shop solution for the entire bathroom
with more than 125 own- and third-party brands across a wide spectrum of price points.
The Group's product design and supply chain strengths are complemented by its creative
and brand-focused marketing strategy. Its marketing activities are undertaken by a
dedicated in-house team, which predominantly focus on online channels to drive
significant and growing traffic to its website (with an average of more than 2.3 million
unique visitors per month based on the 12 months ended March 2021).
DETAILS OF SECURITIES TO BE ADMITTED INCLUDING ANY
RESTRICTIONS AS TO
TRANSFER OF THE SECURITIES (i.e. where known, number and type of shares,
nominal value and issue price to which it seeks admission and the number and type to be
held as treasury shares):
Number of ordinary shares of £0.001 each in nominal value ("Ordinary Shares") for which
Admission will be sought:
324,427,481
Issue price per new Ordinary Share:
262 pence
There will be no restrictions as to transfer of Ordinary Shares.
No Ordinary Shares will be held as treasury shares on Admission to AIM.
CAPITAL TO BE RAISED ON ADMISSION (AND/OR SECONDARY OFFERING) AND
ANTICIPATED MARKET CAPITALISATION ON ADMISSION:
Capital to be raised on Admission:
£297,500,002
Primary to be raised on Admission: £11,600,000 / 4,427,481 shares
Secondary to be raised on Admission: £285,900,002 / 109,122,138 shares
Anticipated market capitalisation on Admission: £850,000,001
PERCENTAGE OF AIM SECURITIES
NOT IN PUBLIC HANDS AT ADMISSION:
Percentage of Ordinary Shares not in public hands on Admission:
65 per cent
DETAILS OF ANY OTHER EXCHANGE OR TRADING PLATFORM TO WHICH THE AIM
SECURITIES (OR OTHER SECURITIES OF THE COMPANY) ARE OR WILL BE
ADMITTED OR TRADED:
There are no other exchanges or trading platforms to which the Group has applied or
agreed to have the Ordinary Shares admitted or traded.
FULL NAMES AND FUNCTIONS OF
DIRECTORS AND PROPOSED DIRECTORS
(underlining the first name by which each is known or including any other name by which
each is known):
Directors:
Philip Hedley Bowcock (Chair)
Mark Andrew Radcliffe (Chief Executive Officer)
Paul Meehan (Chief Financial Officer)
Damian Robert Sanders (Senior Independent Non-Executive Director)
Kathryn ('
Kath') Louise Smith (Non-Executive Director)
FULL NAMES AND HOLDINGS OF
SIGNIFICANT SHAREHOLDERS EXPRESSED AS A
PERCENTAGE OF THE ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL, BEFORE AND AFTER ADMISSION
(underlining the first name by which each is known or including any other name by which
each is known):
As at 17 June 2021
On Admission
Shareholder
Number of
Ordinary
Shares
% Ordinary
Shares
Number of
Ordinary
Shares
% Ordinary
Shares
Mark Andrew
Radcliffe
229,457,795
72%
148,439,833
46%
Neil George
Radcliffe
45,891,560
14%
29,688,003
9%
JPMorgan Asset
Management (UK)
Limited
n/a
n/a
16,000,000
5%
Kayne Anderson
Rudnick
Investment
Management LLC
n/a
n/a
13,000,000
4%
Carole Elaine
Radcliffe
15,297,187
5%
10,708,031
3%
Martin John
Stewart
15,297,187
5%
10,708,031
3%
TOTAL
305,943,729
96%
228,543,898
70%
NAMES OF ALL PERSONS TO BE DISCLOSED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SCHEDULE 2,
PARAGRAPH (H) OF THE AIM RULES:
None - details of shares issued to management in the last twelve months will be included
within the Admission Document
(i) ANTICIPATED ACCOUNTING REFERENCE DATE
(ii) DATE TO WHICH THE
MAIN FINANCIAL INFORMATION IN THE ADMISSION
DOCUMENT HAS BEEN PREPARED (this may be represented by unaudited
interim financial information)
(iii) DATES BY WHICH IT MUST PUBLISH ITS FIRST THREE REPORTS
PURSUANT TO AIM RULES 18 AND 19:
i) 30 September 2021
ii) 31 March 2021
iii) 31 March 2022, 30 June 2022, 31 March 2023
EXPECTED ADMISSION DATE:
22 June 2021
NAME AND ADDRESS OF NOMINATED ADVISER:
GCA Altium Limited
1 Southampton Street
London
WC2R 0LR
NAME AND ADDRESS OF BROKER:
Barclays Bank PLC
5 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 4BB
Numis Securities Limited
10 Paternoster Square
London
EC4M 7LT
OTHER THAN IN THE CASE OF A
QUOTED APPLICANT, DETAILS OF WHERE
(POSTAL OR INTERNET ADDRESS) THE ADMISSION DOCUMENT WILL BE
AVAILABLE FROM, WITH A STATEMENT THAT THIS WILL CONTAIN FULL DETAILS
ABOUT THE APPLICANT AND THE ADMISSION OF ITS SECURITIES:
Copies of the Group's Admission Document will be available free of charge to the public
during normal business hours on any day (Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays
excepted) at the offices of Jones Day, 21 Tudor Street, London EC4Y 0DJ, and the
registered office of the Group, 22 Grimrod Place, Skelmersdale, WN8 9UU, from the date
of the Admission Document until one month from the date of Admission in accordance with
the AIM Rules.
A copy of the Group's Admission Document will also be available on the Group's website
at www.victorianplumbingplc.com.
The Admission Document will contain full details about the Group and the admission of the
Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM.
THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CODE THE APPLICANT HAS DECIDED TO APPLY
UK Corporate Governance Code
DATE OF NOTIFICATION:
17 June 2021
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