Cooks Coffee Company - Issue of equity, Director/PDMR shareholding & TVR
Announcement provided by
Cooks Coffee Company Limited · COOK26/08/2025 11:35
26 August 2025
Cooks Coffee Company Limited
("Cooks Coffee", or the "Company")
Issue of equity, Director/PDMR shareholding and total voting rights
Issue of equity under master franchise agreement
Cooks Coffee Company (NZX:CCC; AQUIS:COOK), the international coffee focused café chain, announces that it has issued 1,680,672 ordinary shares in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to Jaspreet Singh at an issue price of NZ$0.20 per share pursuant to the master franchise agreement ("MFA") for
Director dealing
The Company has been notified that Nikau Trust, a trust in which the non-executive Chairman of the Company Keith Jackson is a trustee, agreed with the Company to reclassify 458,000 of their non-voting shares as Ordinary Shares quoted on the New Zealand Stock Exchange.
Following the reclassification, Nikau Trust now holds 13,275,345 Ordinary Shares representing 19.99% of the ordinary share capital of the Company. Nikau Trust also holds 42,000 non-voting shares.
The regulatory announcement made in accordance with the rules of the New Zealand Stock Exchange is available here.
Admission to trading and total voting rights
Application has been made for the 2,138,672 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on the AQSE Growth Market, which is anticipated to occur on or around 1 September 2025 ("Admission").
Following the issue of the new Ordinary Shares, the Company's issued share capital consists of 66,377,342 ordinary shares, each with one voting right. The Company also has 42,000 unquoted non-voting shares (which may be reclassified on written notice as quoted ordinary shares) in issue.
The figure of 66,377,342 may be used by shareholders in the Company 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 share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Authorised for release by the Chair of Cooks Coffee.
Enquiries:
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Cooks Coffee Company Limited |
+64 21 702 509 ( |
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Keith Jackson (Executive Chairman) Aiden Keegan (Chief Executive) |
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+44 (0) 7980 608 440 (
+44 (0) 20 3934 6630 ( |
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IFC Advisory Limited (Financial PR & IR) |
+44 (0) 20 3934 6630 |
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Graham Herring, Florence Staton
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Allenby Capital (AQSE Corporate Adviser and Broker) |
+44 (0) 20 3179 5300 |
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James Reeve, Dan Dearden-Williams, Ashur Joseph (Corporate Finance) Guy McDougall / Tony Quirke (Sales and Corporate Broking) |
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The following notification, made in accordance with the requirements of the
NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM
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Details of person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
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Name |
Keith Jackson |
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Reason for the notification |
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Position/status |
Non-Executive Director (Chairman) |
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Initial notification/Amendment |
Initial notification |
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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Name |
Cooks Coffee Company Limited |
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Legal Entity Identifier |
213800NQAFZRYYJDMN33 |
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Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted |
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Description of the financial instrument |
Ordinary Shares of zero nominal value |
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Identification code |
NZCFGE0001S7 |
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Nature of the transaction |
Reclassification of non-voting to ordinary shares
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Price(s) and volume(s) |
Price(s) N/A |
Volume(s) 458,000 |
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Aggregated information |
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- Aggregated volume |
N/A
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- Price |
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Date of the transaction |
26 August 2025 |
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Place of the transaction |
Outside a trading venue |
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