Freedom Foods Group Limited (ASX Code: FNP) (Company) announced a 2 for 25 pro rata accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer of new shares at an issue price of $4.45 per new share to raise approximately A$65 million (Entitlement Offer), together with a placement of approximately 2.2 million new shares at an issue price of $4.45 per new share to raise approximately A$10 million (Placement).

The Entitlement Offer has the following two components.

• An institutional entitlement offer, where offers have been made to qualifying institutional securityholders for them to apply for their pro-rata entitlement (Institutional Entitlement Offer).

• A retail entitlement offer, where offers will be made to qualifying retail securityholders for them to apply for their pro-rata entitlement (Retail Entitlement Offer).

New shares issued under the Entitlement Offer will rank equally with existing ordinary shares on issue.

The anticipated timetable in relation to the Entitlement Offer is set out below.

Settlement issues

Despite the fact that securities are trading ‘ex entitlement’ on ASX Trade, CHESS will not recognise for settlement purposes the ‘ex entitlement’ or the ‘cum entitlement’ tag on CHESS messages and CHESS will not maintain cum balances during the deemed ‘CHESS ex-period’, i.e. the period commencing on the deemed CHESS ex-date up to and including the record date. However, a record date cum balance will be available the business day following record date, which will be equal to the registered holding balance at CHESS end of day on the record date. As a result any transfer that occurs prior to record date will be effectively transferred on a ‘cum entitlement’ basis.

Therefore, Participants must ensure that any transfer, including the priming of Broker Entrepot Accounts, is conducted in accordance with the basis of quote. For example, a transfer in relation to a transaction conducted on an ‘ex entitlement’ basis should ordinarily only occur post record date.

CHESS will perform automatic diary adjustments to ‘cum entitlement’ settlement obligations outstanding as at the record date.

Trading issues

ASX will not price a ‘cum entitlement’ market with respect to trading in the Company’s securities. Persons who acquire the Company’s securities after the commencement of the trading halt on Wednesday, 7 December 2016 are not entitled to participate in the Entitlement Offer.

What do I need to do by when?

For further details, please refer to the Company’s announcements on Wednesday, 7 December 2016.

Need more information?

For further details, please call the Entitlement Offer Information Line on 1300 420 709 (within Australia) or +61 1300 420 709 (from outside Australia) Monday to Friday (Sydney time).

Issued by

Andrew Kabega, Senior Adviser, Listings Compliance (Sydney)

Contact information

Andrew Kabega
+61 (02)  9227 0000
info@asx.com.au

Disclaimer