27th Jan 2009 11:13
Tribal Group plc
Completion of Acquisition of Newchurch
On 16 January 2009, Tribal Group plc ("Tribal" or the "Group"), the provider of consultancy, support and delivery services to the public sector in the UK and internationally, announced the acquisition of Newchurch Limited ("Newchurch"). Tribal confirms that completion of the acquisition has taken place today and Tribal now owns all of Newchurch's issued share capital.
As previously announced, as part of the initial and further consideration for the acquisition, Tribal will be issuing new ordinary shares of 5p each in Tribal ("New Tribal Shares").
At completion, as part of the initial consideration, Tribal became obligated to issue a total of 2,418,073 New Tribal Shares to various vendors.
Application will be made for the admission of the New Tribal Shares to trading on the Main Market of The London Stock Exchange ("Main Market"). It is expected that the New Tribal Shares will commence trading on the Main Market on 2 February 2009. The New Tribal Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares of 5p each in Tribal.
Except as disclosed in this announcement, there has been no significant change affecting any matter contained in the notification made by Tribal on 16 January 2009 and no other significant new matter has arisen which would have been required to be mentioned in the earlier notification if it had arisen at the time of that notification
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For further information, please contact:
Tribal Group plc Telephone: 020 7323 7100
Peter Martin, Chief Executive
Simon Lawton, Group Finance Director
Maitland Telephone: 020 7379 5151
Colin Browne
Anthony Silverman
Editors' note:
Tribal provides a range of consultancy, support and delivery services focused on improving the delivery of public services in the UK and internationally. Our core markets are in education, health, housing and regeneration, central government and local government. Tribal employs approximately 2,300 staff and its shares are quoted on the London Stock Exchange (TRB).
Links: Tribal Group plc website: www.tribalgroup.co.uk
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