RNS Number : 1056A
Real Good Food PLC
28 May 2021
 

Real Good Food plc

("RGF" or "the Group")

 

Loan Note Waiver

 

Real Good Food plc, (AIM: RGD) the diversified food business announces that further to the disposal of Brighter Foods Limited, as announced on 22 April 2021 and completing on 11 May 2021 (the "Disposal"), each of NB. Ingredients Limited ("Napier Brown"), Omnicane International Investors Limited ("Omnicane"), and certain funds managed by Downing LLP ("Downing") (together the "Major Shareholders") have each agreed to contribute £180,000 towards the costs incurred by the Group in relation to the Disposal.

 

The total contribution of £540,000 is by way of a waiver of certain of the outstanding loan notes held by each of the Major Shareholders (the "Loan Note Waivers") reducing the amount of loan notes outstanding to £22.0 million.  This waiver has been agreed with respect of certain costs related to the Disposal. The £540,000 attributable to waiver is split between c.£350,000 of capital, £100,000 relating to certain management compensation with the remainder being in respect of interest and redemption premium.

 

As Napier Brown and Omnicane are substantial shareholders of the Company and Judith MacKenzie, a director of the Company, is also a Partner of Downing, each of the Loan Note Waivers are deemed to be related party transactions pursuant to the AIM Rules for Companies. Maribeth Keeling, Mike Holt, and Gail Lumsden, the Independent Directors of the Company for this purpose, having consulted with the Company's Nominated Adviser, finnCap Ltd, consider the terms of the Loan Note Waivers to be fair and reasonable insofar as the Company's shareholders are concerned.

 

Enquiries :
Real Good Food plc

Mike Holt, Executive Chairman

Maribeth Keeling, Chief Finance Officer

Tel: 0151 541 3790

 



finnCap Limited (Nomad and Broker)

Carl Holmes / James Thompson (Corporate Finance)

Tel: 020 7220 0500



MHP Communications (Financial PR) 

Reg Hoare / Katie Hunt

 

Tel: 020 3128 8100

rgf@mhpc.com

About Real Good Food

Real Good Food plc is a food manufacturing business serving a number of market sectors including retail (own label and private label), manufacturing and export. The Company has one business, Cake Decoration (Renshaw and Rainbow Dust Colours) with leading brands in their chosen markets.

 

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com or visit www.rns.com.

RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy.
 
END
 
 
MSCFLFERETIDFIL