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Nanoco Group PLC

22 April 2015

 
 For immediate release   22 April 2015 
 

NANOCO GROUP PLC

("Nanoco" or the "Company")

Result of General Meeting, Move to Main Market

and Placing to raise GBP20 million gross

Nanoco Group plc (AIM: NANO), a world leader in the development and manufacture of cadmium-free quantum dots and other nanomaterials, announces that all resolutions were duly passed at its General Meeting held earlier today in connection with the Company's proposed move from AIM to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and the Placing announced on 31 March 2015.

Following the outcome of the General Meeting, the Company will now proceed with the proposed move to the Main Market and the Placing to raise gross proceeds of GBP20 million.

A summary of the votes cast on the Resolutions put to Shareholders at the General Meeting is shown below:

 
     Resolutions                            For              Against       Withheld 
    -----------------------------  --------------------  ---------------  --------- 
                                      Number        %     Number     %      Number 
---------------------------------  ------------  ------  --------  -----  --------- 
     THAT, conditionally 
      upon Admission, the 
      New Articles of Association 
      (as defined in the 
      Circular) be approved 
      and adopted as the 
      new articles of association 
      of the Company in 
      substitution for, 
      and to the exclusion 
      of, the existing 
      articles of association 
 1    of the Company.               140,776,175   99.95   72,957    0.05   578 
    -----------------------------  ------------  ------  --------  -----  --------- 
 
     THAT, conditionally 
      upon the passing 
      of Resolution 1 and 
      in addition to the 
      authority conferred 
      on the Directors 
      at the annual general 
      meeting of the Company 
      held on 11 December 
      2014, the Directors 
      be generally and 
      unconditionally authorised, 
      in accordance with 
      section 551 of the 
      Companies Act 2006, 
      to allot up to 19,047,619 
      Ordinary Shares in 
      aggregate in the 
      capital of the Company, 
      such authority to 
      expire at the end 
 2    of 31 July 2015.              140,776,753   99.94   80,400    0.06   0 
    -----------------------------  ------------  ------  --------  -----  --------- 
 
     THAT, conditionally 
      upon the passing 
      of Resolutions 1 
      and 2 and in addition 
      to the authority 
      conferred on the 
      Directors at the 
      annual general meeting 
      of the Company held 
      on 11 December 2014, 
      the Directors be 
      given power to allot 
      up to 19,047,619 
      Ordinary Shares for 
      cash pursuant to 
      the authority referred 
      to in Resolution 
      2 other than on a 
      pro-rata basis to 
      shareholders as if 
      section 561 of the 
      Companies Act 2006 
      did not apply, such 
      authority to expire 
      at the end of 31 
 3    July 2015.                    140,761,553   99.86   201,664   0.14   15,200 
    -----------------------------  ------------  ------  --------  -----  --------- 
 

The issued share capital of the Company on the date of the meeting was 217,330,383 ordinary shares of 10 pence each ("Ordinary Shares").

In accordance with the Disclosure Rules and Transparency Rules, a copy of the Resolutions proposed and passed at the General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and will also be available for inspection at www.nanocotechnologies.com.

Notification of the Company's intention to de-list from AIM has been submitted to the London Stock Exchange. It is expected that the last day of dealings in the Ordinary Shares on AIM will occur on 30 April 2015.

Applications will shortly be made to the Official List and to the London Stock Exchange for 236,378,002 Ordinary Shares, fully paid and conditional upon Admission, to be admitted to listing on the premium segment of the Official List and to be admitted to trading on the Main Market. It is expected that Admission of the 236,378,002 Ordinary Shares will occur at 8.00 a.m. on 1 May 2015.

Completion of the Placing and Admission remains subject to certain conditions. A further announcement will be made in due course.

All capitalised terms in this announcement have the meaning given to them in the Circular, unless otherwise defined herein.

For further information, please contact:

 
 Nanoco                             Tel: +44 (0) 161 
                                            603 7900 
 Michael Edelman, Chief Executive 
  Officer 
 Mark Sullivan, Interim Chief 
  Financial Officer 
 
 Canaccord Genuity - Nomad,          Tel: +44 (0) 20 
  Sponsor and Joint Broker                 7523 8000 
 Simon Bridges 
 Cameron Duncan 
  Mark Whitmore 
 
 Liberum - Joint Broker              Tel: +44 (0) 20 
                                           3100 2000 
 Simon Atkinson 
 Richard Bootle 
 
 Buchanan                            Tel: +44 (0) 20 
                                           7466 5000 
 Mark Court / Sophie Cowles 
  / Stephanie Watson 
 

Notes for editors:

About Nanoco Group plc

Nanoco is a world leader in the development and production of cadmium-free quantum dots and other nanomaterials for use in multiple applications including LCD displays, lighting, solar cells and bio-imaging. In the display market, it has an exclusive manufacturing and marketing licensing agreement with The Dow Chemical Company.

Nanoco was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Manchester, UK. It has production facilities in Runcorn, UK, and a US subsidiary, Nanoco Inc, based in Concord, MA. Nanoco also has business development executives in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Its technology is protected worldwide by a large and growing patent estate.

Nanoco began trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in May 2009 under the ticker symbol NANO. For further information please visit: www.nanocotechnologies.com.

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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