21st Aug 2012 10:30
ILX Group PLC
("ILX" or "the Group" or "the Company")
Issue of Equity
Result of General Meeting
Appointment of Executive Chairman
ILX Group plc (AiM: ILX), the AIM quoted provider of e-learning software and business training, is pleased to announce that at today's General Meeting, all resolutions were duly passed.
Accordingly, and further to the announcement released by the Company on 1 August 2012, 8,290,000 new ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the share capital of the Company have been issued and allotted ("New Ordinary Shares"). Of these New Ordinary Shares, 7,890,000 have been issued and allotted to Praxis Trustees and 400,000 have been issued and allotted to Ken Scott, Chief Executive of ILX.
Application has been made for the New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). Admission is expected to take place at 8.00 a.m. on 28 August 2012. Following Admission, the Company will have 39,933,376 ordinary shares of 10 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") in issue. Praxis Trustees will hold 11,940,000 Ordinary Shares in total, representing 29.9 per cent. of the enlarged issued share capital. Ken Scott will hold 818,062 Ordinary Shares in total, representing 2.05 per cent. of the enlarged issued share capital.
Appointment of Executive Chairman
As detailed in the announcement of 1 August 2012, Wayne Bos has now joined the Board as Executive Chairman. Paul Lever remains on the Board as a non-executive director.
Wayne Malcom Bos, aged 46, has over 20 years' experience managing and investing in business over a wide range of sectors, with particular expertise in the software and technology sector. His career includes 3 years as Chief Executive of Sausage Software, an Australian public company, which he grew to a market capitalisation of A$2.5bn in 2001, and President and CEO of Natrol, a Nasdaq listed Nutraceutical company, sold to Plethico, an Indian public company, in 2008. In the last four years, he has made several public and private company investments. Wayne Bos is a discretionary beneficiary of the DNY Trust. As detailed above, following Admission, Praxis Trustees will hold 11,940,000 Ordinary Shares as trustee of the DNY Trust.
Wayne Bos holds and has held the following directorships over the past five years:
Current Directorships
Amad Holdings Pty Ltd
Comms Aust No 1 Pty Ltd
Comms Aust Pty Ltd
Communications Australia Pty Ltd
Garden Drive Corner Properties Pty Ltd
Sixville Pty Ltd
Tahoe Lane Pty Ltd
WMB Consulting Pty Ltd
Yarra Business Investments Pty Ltd
Former Directorships
Aviation Training Australasia Pty Ltd
BDL Family Pty Ltd
Catalina Drive Properties Pty Ltd
Dama Equities Pty Ltd
Dama Management Pty Ltd
Garden Drive Properties Pty Ltd
Tahoe Farms Pty Ltd
Tomorrow Corporation Pty Ltd
Yamala Pty Ltd
There are no other disclosures required pursuant to Schedule 2, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.
Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2012
The Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2012 has today been published and sent to shareholders. It is available to view on www.ilxgroup.com.
21 August 2012
For more information:
ILX Group plc 020 7751 7100
Ken Scott, Chief Executive
FinnCap 020 7220 0500
Marc Young/ Charlotte Stranner
Lothbury Financial Services Limited 020 7868 2010
Michael Padley / Chris Roberts
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