Ultimate Products - Transaction in Own Shares and Total Voting Rights
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Announcement PDF
RNS Number : 6578Q
Ultimate Products PLC
19 December 2024
Ultimate Products plc
("Ultimate Products", "Company" or "the Group")
Transaction in Own Shares
and
Total Voting Rights
Further to its announcement on 10 May 2024 of the commencement of a share buyback programme, Ultimate
Products, the owner of a number of leading homeware brands including Salter (the UK's oldest houseware brand,
est.1760) and Beldray (est.1872), announces that it has purchased for cancellation, through Cavendish Securities
plc, the following ordinary shares of 0.25 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares").
Date of purchase:
18/12/2024
Number of Ordinary Shares purchased (aggregated volume):
8,500
Highest price paid per Ordinary Share (pence):
118.98
Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share (pence):
118.98
Volume weighted average price paid per share Ordinary Share (pence):
118.98
Following the cancellation of the Ordinary Shares, the Company's issued share capital will consist
of87,903,810Ordinary Shares. This figure represents the total voting rights in the Company may be used by
shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify
their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company, under the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency
Rules of the FCA.
In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the UK version of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 which is part of UK law by
virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, a detailed breakdown of individual trades is available below:
Number of shares purchased
8,500
Transaction price
(pence per share)
118.98
Time of transaction
Venue
11:35
XLON
The person responsible for arranging the release of this announcement on behalf of the Company is Chris Dent,
CFO.
For more information, please contact:
Ultimate Products +44 (0) 161 627 1400
Andrew Gossage, CEO
Chris Dent, CFO
Shore Capital +44 (0) 20 7408 4090
Mark Percy
Malachy McEntyre
David Coaten
Harry Davies-Ball
Isobel Jones
Cavendish Capital Markets Limited + 44 (0)20 7220 0500
Carl Holmes (Corporate Finance)
Matt Goode (Corporate Finance)
Abigail Kelly (Corporate Finance)
Charlie Combe (ECM)
Sodali & Co +44 (0) 207 250 1446
Rob Greening
Sam Austrums
Oliver Banks
Notes to Editors
Ultimate Products is the owner of a number of leading homeware brands including Salter (the UK's oldest
houseware brand, established in 1760) and Beldray (a laundry, floor care, heating and cooling brand that was
established in 1872). According to its market research, nearly 80% of UK households own at least one of the
Group's products.
Ultimate Products sells to over 300 retailers across 38 countries, and specialises in five product categories: Small
Domestic Appliances; Housewares; Laundry; Audio; and Heating and Cooling. Other brands include Progress
(cookware and bakeware), Kleeneze (laundry and floorcare), Petra (small domestic appliances) and Intempo
(audio).
The Group's products are sold to a broad cross-section of both large national and international multi-channel
retailers as well as smaller national retail chains, incorporating discount retailers, supermarkets, general retailers
and online retailers.
Founded in 1997, Ultimate Products employs over 370 staff, a significant number of whom have joined via the
Group's graduate development scheme, and is headquartered in Oldham, Greater Manchester, where it has
design, sales, marketing, buying, quality assurance, support functions and warehouse facilities across two sites.
Manor Mill, the Group's head office, includes a spectacular 20,000 sq ft showroom that showcases each of its
brands. In addition, the Group has an office and showroom in Guangzhou, China and in Paris, France.
Please note that Ultimate Products is not the owner of Russell Hobbs. The company currently has licence
agreements in place granting it an exclusive licence to use the "Russell Hobbs" trademark for cookware and
laundry (NB this does not include Russell Hobbs electrical appliances).
For further information, please visit www.upplc.com.
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