First Day of Dealings
RNS Number:7083O
India Outsourcing Services PLC
26 February
2008
For immediate
release
26 February 2008
INDIA OUTSOURCING SERVICES PLC
(to be
renamed INDIAN RESTAURANTS GROUP plc)
First Day of Dealings of Enlarged
Share Capital on AIM
Acquisition of the Mela Group
Change of name
from India Outsourcing Services plc to Indian Restaurants Group
plc
India Outsourcing Services plc (to be renamed Indian
Restaurants Group plc) is pleased to announce its first day of dealings on AIM
today following its acquisition of the Mela Group. The Company's new ticker
symbol will be 'IRGP'. It is expected that the change in the Company's name and
ticker symbol will become effective at 8.00am on 27 February 2008.
India
Outsourcing Services plc announced on 29 January 2008 that it had conditionally agreed to acquire the London-based Mela Group of three
Indian restaurants and a catering business ("Acquisition") for a Consideration
of £1,998,999 to be satisfied by £100,000 in cash and by the issue of up to
7,201,365 new ordinary shares at 26.37p per share ("Consideration Shares"), some
of which are conditional on the achievement of certain targets ("Deferred
Consideration Shares").
The Initial Consideration Shares represent 27.53
per cent of the Enlarged Share Capital, and the Consideration Shares in total
will represent up to 43.17 per cent of the further enlarged share capital
assuming the issue of the Deferred Consideration Shares.
As at 25 January
2008 (being the date on which the Ordinary Shares were suspended from trading on
AIM), the closing mid market price of an Existing Ordinary Share was 20.5p. At
this price the Mela Group was valued at approximately £1.48 million and India
Outsourcing at approximately £1.94 million.
Dealings in the Enlarged
Share Capital consisting of 9,479,167 Existing Ordinary Shares and 3,600,683
Initial Consideration Shares commence on AIM today.
Commenting on the
successful completion of the Acquisition, Haresh Kanabar, the Company's
Non-Executive Chairman and Finance Director, said: "I am delighted that trading
has commenced in the new ordinary shares. We look forward to updating
shareholders in due course on our plans to roll out the Mela and Chowki
restaurant brands to create the UK's first national, branded provider of Indian
cuisine."
Full details of the Proposals were set out in the Admission
Document posted to shareholders dated 28 January 2008 and which is available
from the Company's website at www.indianrestaurantsgroup.com.
For further
information please contact:
India Outsourcing Services Plc (to
be 020 7297 0012
renamed Indian Restaurants Group
plc)
Amit Pau, Chief
Executive
www.indianrestaurantsgroup.com
W. H. Ireland
Limited
0121 265 6330
Tim Cofman-Nicoresti / Katy Birkin
Buchanan
Communications
020 7466 5000
Mark Court
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