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Admission to Official List
Admission to Official List.
About this update from Genus Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n Genus PLC\n12 November 2007\n\n\n 12 November 2007\n\n\n\n NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR\n INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, JAPAN, CANADA, AUSTRALIA OR THE\n REPUBLIC OF IRELAND\n\n\n Genus plc\n ('Genus' or 'the Company')\n\n Commencement of trading on the Official List\n\n\nGenus plc, a world leading animal genetics company, is pleased to announce that\nadmission to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and the London Stock\nExchange's main market for listed securities of 59,204,190 ordinary shares of 10\npence ('Ordinary Shares') has occurred ('Admission') and that trading in its\nOrdinary Shares became effective from 8.00 am today. The Company's FTSE\nclassification is Biotechnology.\n\n\n\nCopies of the prospectus dated 6 November 2007, published in connection with\nAdmission are available from the 'Investors' section of the Company's website at\nwww.genusplc.com. The prospectus has also been submitted to the UKLA's Document\nViewing Facility situated at: Financial Services Authority, 25 The North\nColonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5HS.\nEnquiries:\n\n\n\nGenus plc Tel: 01256 345970\nRichard Wood, Chief Executive\nMartin Boden, Finance Director\n\nLandsbanki Securities (UK) Limited Tel: 020 7426 9000\nSponsor & Joint Broker\nShaun Dobson\n\nBuchanan Communications Tel: 020 7466 5000\nCharles Ryland / Suzanne Brocks\n\n\n\nAbout Genus\n\n\n\nGenus creates and sells added value products for livestock farming and food\nproducers by creating advances to animal breeding through biotechnology. Its\nnon-Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) technology is applicable across all\nlivestock species but is only commercialised by Genus in the bovine and porcine\nfarming sectors.\n\n\n\nGenus' worldwide sales are made in seventy countries under the trade marks 'ABS'\n(dairy and beef cattle) and 'PIC' (pigs) and comprise semen and breeding animals\nwith superior genetics to those animals currently in production. Customers\nproduce offspring with greater production efficiency, milk and meat output and\nquality and use these to supply the global dairy and meat supply chain.\n\n\n\nGenus' competitive edge has been created from the ownership and control of\nproprietary lines of breeding animals, the biotechnology used to improve them\nand the Group's global production an...