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Efore Plc (‘Efore’ or the ‘Company’) announced today that the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority has approved the Company’s Finnish language prospectus (the ‘Prospectus’) relating to the rights offering of approximately EUR 11 million announced by the Company today (the ‘Offering’).
In this release, the Company is publishing a previously unpublished supplemented half-year report of the Efore Group, which is included in the Prospectus, has been prepared for the Prospectus and is appended to this release.
The Company has supplemented its half-yearly report for the six months ended on 30 June 2018 with updated information on its financial position, specified the classification of interest-bearing liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as at 30 June 2018, specified certain accounting policies of the half-yearly report, notes to the half-yearly report and the ROE indicator for 1–6/2018, added EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA figures and changed the term ‘operating result’ into ‘operating profit/loss’. In addition, the Company has reviewed the terminology in the 2018 profit forecast by changing the term ‘operative cash flow’ into ‘cash flow from operating activities’. The Company will apply this terminology in its future reporting.
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Helsinki, 28 November 2018
Efore Plc
Board of Directors
Further information:
CEO Jorma Wiitakorpi, Efore Plc, tel. +358 40 175 8510
CFO Vesa Leino, Efore Plc, tel. +358 40 759 8956
Distribution:
Nasdaq Helsinki
Principal media
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The information contained in this document shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the securities referred to herein in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration, exemption from registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. Investors must neither accept any offer for, nor acquire, any securities to which this document refers, unless they do so on the basis of the information contained in the applicable prospectus published by the Company.
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