Pre-emption Offers to Shareholders
OMNIMEDIA PLC
(Registered in England and Wales, No. 2939938)
6 for 1 Rights issue of 4,999,998 new Ordinary Shares of 60p each (“Ordinary Shares”)
at 60 pence per share payable in full on acceptance.
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to section 90(5) of the Companies Act 1985, to persons
who were registered at the close of business in London on 19th June 1998 (“the Record
Date”) as holders of Ordinary Shares of 1p each who have no registered address within
the United Kingdom and who have not supplied to the Company an address within the
United Kingdom for the service of notices on them (“Relevant Shareholders”) that in
connection with an offer by way of rights (“the Rights Issue”) of 4,999,998 new Ordinary
Shares at 60 pence per share, payable in full on acceptance, on the basis of 6 new
Ordinary Shares for each Ordinary Share (arising upon consolidation from the ordinary
shares of 1 pence each) held by shareholders on the register on the Record Date (which
new Ordinary Shares, when fully paid, will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary
Shares in the Company), the following documents relating to and constituting the Rights
Issue may be inspected at, or (subject as below provided) obtained on personal application
by or on behalf of Relevant Shareholders from the Company’s Registrars, Connaught
St. Michaels Limited, PO Box 30, Victoria Street, Luton, Bedfordshire LU1 2PZ, during
usual business hours on any weekday (Saturdays and public holidays excepted) from
12th June 1998, up to and including 22nd July 1998:
1. copies of the circular letter dated 12th June 1998, published in connection
with the Rights Issue, addressed to the ordinary shareholders of the Company, constituting
a Prospectus relating to the Company in accordance with the Public Offers of Securities
Regulations 1995 and chapters 16 and 17 of the rules of the London Stock Exchange
Limited (“Circular”); and
2. the provisional allotment letters (“Provisional Allotment Letters”) in respect
of the new Ordinary Shares provisionally allotted to Relevant Shareholders, pursuant
to the Rights Issue, provided that, in the case of those Relevant Shareholders to
whom originals thereof have been despatched, copies of such Provisional Allotment
Letters may not be obtained but may only be inspected, unless the relative originals
so despatched are surrendered to the Company’s Registrars at the above address.
Neither the Provisional Allotment Letters nor the new Ordinary Shares have been
or will be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
nor under the securities legislation of any state of the USA or any province or territory
of Canada or of Australia or of The Republic of South Africa or the Republic of Ireland
and accordingly, subject to certain exceptions, they may not be offered, sold, taken
up, renounced or delivered or transferred within the USA, Canada, Australia, Republic
of South Africa or the Republic of Ireland. The Company reserves the right to refuse
to register any acceptance, renunciation or registration in the name of any person
who provides an address for registration in the USA, Canada, Australia, Republic of
South Africa or the Republic of Ireland or any other territory in which it is unlawful
to make an offer for or subscribe for the new Ordinary Shares.
Persons resident, or who are citizens of, any state or territory other than the
United Kingdom, should consult their professional advisers as to whether they require
governmental or other consents, or need to follow any other formalities to enable
them to take up their rights pursuant to the Rights Issue. The attention of any person
not resident in the United Kingdom is drawn to paragraph 3 of Part 3 of the Circular.
By Order of the Board. G. K. Urquhart, Secretary Registered Office: 61 Woodside Park,
New Malden, Surrey KT3 3AW.
30th June 1998.