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Deutsche EuroShop AG generates approx. EUR 123 million from its successful rights offering - Approx. 5-times oversubscribed
Deutsche EuroShop AG / Capital Increase/Corporate Action
01.02.2010
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Deutsche EuroShop AG generates approx. EUR 123 million from its successful
rights offering - Approx. 5-times oversubscribed
Hamburg, February 1, 2010 - The shareholders of Deutsche EuroShop AG (ISIN
DE0007480204) have exercised subscription and oversubscription rights for
all 6,302,082 new shares offered in connection with the company's rights
offering, the subscription period ended as planned on January 29, 2010.
Following the exercise of 90.9 % of the shareholders' subscription rights,
574,965 shares remain available for oversubscriptions. In total,
oversubscriptions for 25,321,943 shares were submitted. Due to the high
rate of oversubscription, approx. 2.3 % of the shares for which effective
oversubscriptions were submitted will be fulfilled. The total subscriptions
and oversubscriptions amounted to over EUR 600 million, which corresponds
to a 4.9-times oversubscription rate.
Deutsche EuroShop AG will receive gross proceeds from the rights offering
of approximately EUR 123 million. The proceeds are to be used primarily to
finance the acquisition of the A10 Center in Wildau, near Berlin, which was
agreed in early January 2010.
'We are pleased with the decidedly positive response to our rights
offering,' said Claus-Matthias Böge, CEO of Deutsche EuroShop. 'We had long
wished to give our many loyal shareholders the opportunity to participate
in a capital increase. We believe we found a good way to do so through our
choice of a rights offering.'
Olaf Borkers, CFO of Deutsche EuroShop, added: 'We see the high take-up
rate as a clear show of trust by our shareholders and the capital markets
in the strategy and future of Deutsche EuroShop.'
Upon the registration of the capital increase in the commercial register,
which is expected to occur by February 3, 2010, the total number of
outstanding shares of the company will rise to 44,114,578. Delivery and
payment for the new shares is expected to take place on Thursday, February
4, 2010, but at the earliest upon their admission to stock exchange
trading.
The Co-Lead Managers for the transaction were COMMERZBANK
Aktiengesellschaft and DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank,
Frankfurt am Main.
Deutsche EuroShop AG
Management Board
This publication constitutes neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of
an offer to buy securities. In particular, this document constitutes
neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to purchase
securities in the United States. The shares in Deutsche EuroShop AG (the
'Shares') may not be offered or sold in the United States or to or for the
account or benefit of 'U. S. persons' (as such term is defined in
Regulation S under the U. S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
'Securities Act')) absent registration or an exemption from registration
under the Securities Act. The Shares have not been and will not be
registered under the Securities Act. There will be no public offering of
Shares in the United States.
01.02.2010 Ad hoc announcement, Financial News and Media Release distributed by DGAP.
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Language: English
Company: Deutsche EuroShop AG
Oderfelder Straße 23
20149 Hamburg
Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0)40 413 579-0
Fax: +49 (0)40 413 579-29
E-mail: ir@deutsche-euroshop.de
Internet: www.deutsche-euroshop.de
ISIN: DE0007480204
WKN: 748020
Indices: MDAX
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
in Berlin, München, Hannover, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart
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