Share Issue/Capital Change • Oct 30, 2015
Share Issue/Capital Change
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Allocation to primary insiders
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KID ASA - ALLOCATION TO PRIMARY INSIDERS
Lier, 30 October 2015: Reference is made to the stock
exchange announcement published on 30 October 2015, in which
Kid ASA ("Kid" or the "Company") announced the successful
completion of the bookbuilding period for the initial public
offering of the shares (the "Offering").
The following primary insiders of Kid have been allocated
shares at a price of NOK 31 per share in accordance with the
terms set out in the prospectus dated 16 October 2015 and
supplement prospectus dated 26 October 2015:
- Kjersti Hobøl (CEO) has been allocated 64,516 shares in
the Offering and will own 64,516 shares in Kid following
completion of the Offering
- Petter Schouw-Hansen (CFO) has been allocated 32,258
shares in the Offering and will own 32,258 shares in Kid
following completion of the Offering
- Eva-Lena Wechselberger (Head of store operations) has been
allocated 6,451 shares in the Offering and will own 6,451
shares in Kid following completion of the Offering
- Robert Steen (Logistics Director) has been allocated 8,064
shares in the Offering and will own 8,064 shares in Kid
following completion of the Offering
- Stian Brandhagen (Business Controller) has been allocated
3,225 shares in the Offering and will own 3,225 shares in
Kid following completion of the Offering
- Espen Berge Kvam (Business Controller) has been allocated
338 shared in the Offering and will own 338 shares in Kid
following completion of the Offering
- Henrik Schüssler (Chairman of the Board) has been
allocated 32,258 shares in the Offering and will own 32,258
shares in Kid following completion of the Offering
- Pål F. Clausen (Board member) has been allocated 8,064
shares in the Offering and will own 8,064 shares in Kid
following completion of the Offering
- Karin Bing Orgland (Board member) has been allocated
16,129 shares in the Offering and will own 16,129 shares in
Kid following completion of the Offering
- Vilde Falck-Ytter (Board member) has been allocated 6,451
shares in the Offering and will own 6,451 shares in Kid
following completion of the Offering
ABG Sundal Collier ASA and Arctic Securities AS
(collectively the "Joint Bookrunners") are acting as Joint
Bookrunners in the IPO.
For further enquiries, please contact:
Petter Schouw-Hansen, CFO +47 482 24 534
ABOUT KID ASA
Kid is the leading and most profitable retailer in the
Norwegian home textile market, typified by products like
duvets, pillows, curtains, bed linens and other accessories
and decorating items. As of 30 September 2015, Kid operated
a total of 128 wholly-owned stores in Norway, in addition to
an established e-commerce platform. Kid traces its history
back to 1937, and has since the 1950s renewed Norwegian
homes by offering attractive and practical curtains, bed
linens and other interior articles. Kid is among the known
brands within retail in Norway, with 97% of Norwegian women
being familiar with the Company. Kid has approximately 900
employees with headquarters in new and modern facilities in
Lier, Norway. For more information visit www.kid.no
IMPORTANT NOTICE
This announcement is not and does not form a part of any
offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase,
any securities of the Company.
Copies of this announcement are not being made and may not
be distributed or sent into the United States, Australia,
Hong Kong, Canada, Japan or any other jurisdiction in which
such distribution would be unlawful or would require
registration or other measures.
The securities referred to in this announcement have not
been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and
accordingly may not be offered or sold in the United States
absent registration or an applicable exemption from the
registration requirements of the Securities Act and in
accordance with applicable U.S. state securities laws. The
Company does not intend to register any part of the offering
in the United States or to conduct a public offering of
securities in the United States. Any sale in the United
States of the securities mentioned in this announcement will
be made solely to "qualified institutional buyers" as
defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
Any offering of the securities referred to in this
announcement will be made by means of a prospectus. This
announcement is not a prospectus for the purposes of
Directive 2003/71/EC (as amended, together with any
applicable implementing measures in any Member State, the
"Prospectus Directive"). Investors should not subscribe for
any securities referred to in this announcement except on
the basis of information contained in a prospectus.
In any EEA Member State that has implemented the Prospectus
Directive, this communication is only addressed to and is
only directed at qualified investors in that Member State
within the meaning of the Prospectus Directive.
This communication is only being distributed to and is only
directed at persons in the United Kingdom that are (i)
investment professionals falling within Article 19(5) of the
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial
Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the "Order") or (ii) high
net worth entities, and other persons to whom this
announcement may lawfully be communicated, falling within
Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (all such persons
together being referred to as "relevant persons"). This
communication must not be acted on or relied on by persons
who are not relevant persons. Any investment or investment
activity to which this communication relates is available
only for relevant persons and will be engaged in only with
relevant persons. Persons distributing this communication
must satisfy themselves that it is lawful to do so.
Matters discussed in this announcement may constitute
forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are
statements that are not historical facts and may be
identified by words such as "believe", "expect",
"anticipate", "strategy", "intends", "estimate", "will",
"may", "continue", "should" and similar expressions. The
forward-looking statements in this release are based upon
various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon
further assumptions. Although the Company believes that
these assumptions were reasonable when made, these
assumptions are inherently subject to significant known and
unknown risks, uncertainties, contingencies and other
important factors which are difficult or impossible to
predict and are beyond its control. Actual events may differ
significantly from any anticipated development due to a
number of factors, including without limitation, changes in
public sector investment levels, changes in the general
economic, political and market conditions in the Norwegian
market, the Company's ability to attract, retain and
motivate qualified personnel, changes in the Company's
ability to engage in commercially acceptable acquisitions
and strategic investments, and changes in laws and
regulation and the potential impact of legal proceedings and
actions. Such risks, uncertainties, contingencies and other
important factors could cause actual events to differ
materially from the expectations expressed or implied in
this release by such forward-looking statements. The Company
does not guarantee that the assumptions underlying the
forward-looking statements in this presentation are free
from errors nor does it accept any responsibility for the
future accuracy of the opinions expressed in this
presentation or any obligation to update or revise the
statements in this presentation to reflect subsequent
events. You should not place undue reliance on the forward-
looking statements in this document.
The information, opinions and forward-looking statements
contained in this announcement speak only as at its date,
and are subject to change without notice. The Company does
not undertake any obligation to review, update, confirm, or
to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking
statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances
that arise in relation to the content of this announcement.
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