Helsinki, Finland, 2015-11-17 16:40 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Talentum Stock Exchange Release 17 November 2015 at 5.40 p.m.
THE FINAL RESULT OF ALMA MEDIA CORPORATION'S EXCHANCE OFFER
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On 29 September 2015, Talentum Corporation (“Talentum”) and Alma Media Corporation (“Alma Media”) announced their plan to combine their businesses by means of a public exchange offer made by Alma Media to Talentum's shareholders and option right holders. According to the final result of the exchange offer, the shares tendered in the exchange offer represent approximately 94.4 per cent of all the shares and votes in Talentum and approximately 95.2 per cent of the issued and outstanding shares in Talentum.
The offer period of the exchange offer ended on 12 November 2015. On 13 November 2015, Alma Media announced that it will complete the exchange offer subject to the conditions to the completion of the exchange offer remaining fulfilled at the time of completion in accordance with the terms and conditions of the exchange offer. As all the conditions to the completion of the exchange offer have been and remain fulfilled, pursuant to Alma Media it will complete the exchange offer in accordance with its terms and conditions preliminarily today, 17 November 2015.
Pursuant to Alma Media, the Board of Directors of Alma Media resolved on 17 November 2015, based on the authorisation granted by the General Meeting on 17 March 2015, to issue a total of 6,896,329 new Alma Media shares to Talentum's shareholders as the share consideration of the exchange offer and to pay a total of EUR 19.3 million as cash consideration. Payment for the subscribed shares will be made by assigning shares in Talentum in accordance with the terms and conditions of the exchange offer. The share capital of Alma Media will not be increased as a result of the share issue, but instead the amount deemed payable for the new shares, will be recorded in the invested unrestricted equity fund. The number of shares in Alma Media will increase from 75,486,853 to 82,383,182. The new shares will correspond approximately 8.4 per cent of the share capital and votes in Alma Media following the completion of the share issue.
In accordance with Alma Media, the new shares in Alma Media issued in the exchange offer will be delivered to the book-entry accounts of Talentum shareholders who have validly accepted the exchange offer, and who have not validly withdrawn their acceptance, on or about 20 November 2015. Trading in the new shares in Alma Media is expected to commence on the official list of Nasdaq OMX Helsinki (the “Helsinki Stock Exchange”) preliminarily on 20 November 2015.
Pursuant to Alma Media, holders of Talentum 2013A and 2013B option rights have accepted the exchange offer in accordance with the terms and conditions of the exchange offer. Alma Media shall pay a total of EUR 0,1 million as option consideration to the option right holders.
Alma Media has informed that it intends to acquire all shares in Talentum. To achieve this, Alma Media will acquire Talentum shares through the Helsinki Stock Exchange up to the price equivalent to the consideration in the exchange offer.
Immediately after Alma Media has acquired more than nine-tenths (9/10) of all of the shares in Talentum and votes conferred by the shares, Alma Media will present a redemption demand to Talentum shareholders in accordance with the Finnish Limited Liability Companies Act. Thus, shares that have not been tendered in the exchange offer or acquired otherwise prior to the commencement of the redemption proceeding will be redeemed by Alma Media in the manner set forth in the Finnish Limited Liability Companies Act.
TALENTUM CORPORATION
The Board of Directors
Further information will be given by:
Henri Österlund, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Talentum Corporation
henri.osterlund@accendofund.com
+358 50 348 9600
Aarne Aktan, CEO, Talentum Corporation
aarne.aktan@talentum.com
+358 40 342 4440
Distribution:
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
Principal media
www.talentum.fi
TALENTUM IN BRIEF
Talentum Corporation focuses on professionals with main products of magazines, books, digital services, trainings and events. Talentum produces contents from various fields of economy, law, management, HR, sales and marketing, ICT, technology and health care with the mission to help professionals succeed.
In 2014, Talentum's net sales totalled EUR 72.3 million. The company employs 720 persons in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia and Latvia. Talentum Corporation is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. Read more: www.talentum.fi.
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