Holmes Place 計画（する）s £31m cash call

By This Is Money
Updated: 00:00 BST, 16 November 2000

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Health club 操作者 Holmes Place is planning to tap the market for £31.5m to fund its 拡大 in the UK and across Europe. The group is calling a 1-for-5 権利s 問題／発行する at 195p a 株 - a 14% 割引 to its 現在の 株 price, a year low 227p. It has al so raised its bank 施設s to £130m.

'The 大きくするd bank 施設s and 逮捕する proceeds of the 権利s 問題／発行する will 供給する the group with the 柔軟性 to take advantage of the 付加 適切な時期s which have been 現在のd to it,' said chairman Graham 赤みを帯びた. CSFB has underwritten the cash call.

The company also 予測（する） a 税込みの 利益（をあげる） of £14m for the 現在の year to end December, an 前進する of 36%.

Holmes Place directors have undertaken not to follow their 権利s on 28.8% of the new 株. These will be placed with 会・原則s and other 投資家s. That means the directors' shareholding will 落ちる from nearly 32% to いっそう少なく than 27%.