CMS: Wienerberger AG: Other admission duties to follow
January 29, 2024 at 05:01 am
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EQS Post-admission Duties announcement: Wienerberger AG
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Wienerberger AG: Other admission duties to follow
29.01.2024 / 11:00 CET/CEST
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Wienerberger AG intends to use 6,000,000 treasury shares
The Managing Board of Wienerberger AG (the "Company") intends to use treasury shares (own shares) on the basis of the authorisation for the use (resale authorisation) of treasury shares granted by the 153rd Annual General Meeting on May 3, 2022 under agenda item 9 (the "Use Authorisation").
In December 2022, Wienerberger announced its intention to acquire significant parts of the Terreal Group, a European provider of innovative roofing and solar solutions in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the USA (the "Terreal Acquisition"). Following the conclusion of a put option agreement in December 2022, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Issuer seated in France (the "Acquirer") entered into a share purchase agreement under French law on 13 and 14 March 2023. This agreement pertained to the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Terreal Holding SAS, France (the "Acquisition") with the existing shareholders as sellers (the "Sellers"). The purchase price for the Terreal Acquisition is payable (i) by delivery of treasury shares of the Company and (ii) by a cash purchase price component.
Wienerberger intends to use the treasury shares as additional non-cash purchase price component for the Acquisition in addition to the cash purchase price component and will publish a report on the use of own shares excluding purchase rights (subscription rights) on the basis of the Use Authorisation via a pan-European electronic distribution system, on Wienerberger's website (www.wienerberger.com) and in accordance with joint stock company laws (the "Report").
Prior to the actual use of treasury shares, a Managing Board resolution for the corresponding use of treasury shares and an authorisation resolution by the Supervisory Board, which can be granted at the earliest two weeks after publication of the Report, will be obtained.
Wienerberger AG is one of Europe's largest building materials producers. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- walls, ceilings and roofing (54%): perforated bricks, facing bricks, tiles (clay, concrete or chimney tiles). Wienerberger AG is the world's leading producer of bricks;
- pipes (27%): pipes for water conveyance and sewers and concrete floor tiles.
The remaining sales (19%) relate to activity in North America.
At the end of 2022, the group operated 216 industrial sites worldwide.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Germany (6%), the United Kingdom (8.2%), the Netherlands (8%), Austria (5.8%), Poland (5.5%), France (5%), Europe (30.5%), the United States (17.4%) and other (13.6%).