DGAP-News: UNIWHEELS AG: IPO - ALLOTMENT OF UNIWHEELS AG

DGAP-News: UNIWHEELS AG / Key word(s): IPO/Capital Increase UNIWHEELS AG: IPO - ALLOTMENT OF UNIWHEELS AG SHARES OFFERED IN A PUBLIC OFFERING 29.04.2015 / 14:59 --------------------------------------------------------------------- NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, JAPAN OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD BE UNLAWFUL Warsaw, 29th April 2015 UNIWHEELS AG has approved the allotment of 4,800,000 shares in the Offering, including 2,400,000 new shares from a share capital increase (the "New Shares") and 2,400,000 existing shares from the holding of the Selling Shareholder (the "Sale Shares"). 240,000 (5%) of the Offer Shares have been allocated to Retail Investors and 4,560,000 (95%) of the Offer Shares have been allocated to Institutional Investors. The Offer Price (the same for the New Shares and the Sale Shares) was PLN 105, and the total proceeds from the Offering (the New Shares and the Sale Shares) amounted to PLN 504.0 mln gross (EUR 125.4 mln 1). From the issue of the New Shares, the Company will receive the amount of PLN 252.0 mln (EUR 62.7 mln ) gross. Expected debut date on WSE is May 8th, 2015. - We would like to thank all investors, both institutional and individual ones, who took the time to attend the meeting, analyze our company and finally decided to invest in UNIWHEELS AG shares. During roadshows we had met approx. 70 institutions, and almost all of them took part in the book building. What is also worth adding - foreign institutional investors from 8 countries decided to take part in the offering. It is a great success and a proof that our company, the business model and long term prospects are very attractive from the European markets perspective. Finally the demand from institutions was so high that we had to allocate to them much more shares than initially expected. At the price of PLN 105 per share, demand substantially exceeded the number of offered shares. We are also very pleased with the significant interest in our shares shown by the Polish retail investors - says Ralf Schmid, UNIWHEELS AG CEO. We are very satisfied with the achieved price level of PLN 105 per share which is fully in line with our internal pricing goal. As a result of this success, we have collected gross proceeds amounting to approx. EUR 62.7 mln which will be invested into financing of our third plant in Stalowa Wola. The facility will start its operations by mid of 2016 as scheduled. In the final stage, this additional capacity of approx. 1.9 mln wheels will lead to a group capacity of nearly 10 mln wheels in the next years. - says Dr. Karsten Obenaus, UNIWHEELS AG CFO. UNIWHEELS AG is the 3rd largest wheel producer in Europe in terms of turnover. It is therefore also one of Europe's largest OEM wheel suppliers to the automotive industry and the leading manufacturer of alloy wheels in the European aftermarket sector. The Company's market capitalization after the issue of the new shares will amount to approx. PLN1.3 bln (approx. EUR 324 mln). New investors will have a stake of approx. 38.7% in the share capital, while approx. 61.3% will remain at UNIWHEELS Holding (Malta) Ltd, owned by Ralf and Michael Schmid. For more information please contact: Oliver Madsen Head of Investor Relations o.madsen@de.uniwheels.com UNIWHEELS AG Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 10 67098 Bad Dürkheim Germany www.uniwheels.com Piotr Piotrowski Corporate Communications p.piotrowski@ccgroup.com.pl CC Group sp. z o.o. Tel (+48) 22 440 1 440, 697 613 010 This announcement is not an offer of securities for sale in Australia, Canada, Japan or the United States. Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or an exemption from registration. The securities referred to herein have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act. No public offering of the securities will be made in the United States. This announcement is for promotional purposes only and under no circumstances shall constitute the basis for a decision to invest in the shares of UNIWHEELS AG (the "Company"). The prospectus (the "Prospectus") prepared in connection with the public offering and admission of the Company's shares to trading on the Warsaw Stock Exchange ("WSE") and approved by Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht ("BaFin") shall be the sole legally binding announcement containing information on the Company and the offering of its shares in Poland (the "IPO"). For the purposes of the IPO and admission of the Company's shares to trading on the WSE, the Company has made the Prospectus available on the Company's website www.uniwheels.com Statements contained herein may constitute "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements are generally identifiable by the use of the words "is likely to", "aim", "may", "will", "should", "plan", "expect", "anticipate", "estimate", "believe", "intend", "project", "goal" or "target" or the negative of these words or other variations on these words or comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause the Company's or its industry's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake publicly to update or revise any forward-looking statement that may be made herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. It may be unlawful to distribute this announcement in certain jurisdictions. This announcement is not for distribution in Canada, Japan or Australia. The information in this announcement does not constitute an offer of securities for sale in Canada, Japan or Australia. The Global Coordinator, Joint Bookrunners Joint Offering Agents or Underwriters do not intend to disclose the extent of any individual investments or transactions otherwise than in accordance with any legal or regulatory obligations to do so. None of the Global Coordinator, Joint Bookrunners, Joint Offering Agents or Underwriters or any of their respective subsidiary undertakings, affiliates or any of their respective directors, officers, employees, advisers, agents or any other person accepts any responsibility or liability whatsoever for, or makes any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the truth, accuracy, completeness or fairness of the information or opinions in this announcement or any other information relating to the Company, its subsidiaries or associated companies, whether written, oral or in a visual or electronic form, and howsoever transmitted or made available, or for any loss howsoever arising from any use of this announcement or its contents or otherwise arising in connection therewith. 1 On April 23, 2015 the exchange rate of Polish Zloty to Euro was 1 PLN to 0.2488 Euro according to exchange rates published by the European Central Bank., https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/exchange/euro...ex.en.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- 29.04.2015 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. 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