26.03.2018 – 07:26

Goldbach Group AG

EQS-Adhoc: Goldbach Group AG: Definitive interim result regarding the Goldbach acquisition: close to 90 percent of the shares have already been tendered to Tamedia

EQS Group-Ad-hoc: Goldbach Group AG / Key word(s): Offer/Interim Report
Goldbach Group AG: Definitive interim result regarding the Goldbach acquisition:
close to 90 percent of the shares have already been tendered to Tamedia

26-March-2018 / 07:19 CET/CEST
Release of an ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 KR
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

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AD HOC PRESS RELEASE  
 
Definitive interim result regarding the Goldbach acquisition: close to 90
percent of the shares have already been tendered to Tamedia

Küsnacht, 26.03.2018.The definitive interim result of Tamedia's takeover offer
for the Goldbach Group is now available: A total of 89.48 percent of the
Goldbach Group's shares have already been tendered. The grace period begins
tomorrow, Tuesday, 27 March and ends on 11 April 2018 at 4:00 pm. Tamedia
expects that over 90 percent of the Goldbach shares will be tendered by the end
of the grace period and, in this case, intends to have the Goldbach Group
delisted.

On 22 December 2017, the Swiss media group Tamedia made a preliminary
announcement for a public tender offer to purchase all shares issued by the
Goldbach Group AG (ISIN CH0004870942). On 2 February 2018, Tamedia AG published
the detailed Offer Prospectus for the takeover of the Goldbach Group AG, with an
offer of CHF 35.50 for each registered share. As confirmed by the definitive
interim result, a total of 5,631,725 shares of the Goldbach Group had been
tendered to Tamedia by the end of the offer period on 20 March 2018, 4:00 pm.
This represents 89.48 percent of the maximum number of 6,293,876 Goldbach shares
subject to the offer.

Maximum number of shares issued by Goldbach Group Number of shares tendered by
the offer Participation rate and

success rate

6,293,876                                         5,631,725
89.48%

Shareholders who have not yet tendered their shares may do so during the grace
period of 10 trading days between 27 March and 11 April 2018, 4:00 pm CET.
Tamedia expects that over
90 percent of the Goldbach shares will be tendered by the end of the grace
period. In this case, Tamedia plans to pay a cash compensation to the remaining
minority shareholders upon execution and to have the Goldbach Group delisted.

Subject to fulfilment of certain conditions, Tamedia has declared that the offer
has been successful. The offer remains subject to the offer restrictions and
conditions in the Offer Prospectus, among other things including the approval of
the Swiss Federal Competition Commission. Tamedia and Goldbach expect to be
granted this approval in May or, in the case of an in-depth review, at the
latest by September 2018. It is therefore expected that the completion of the
offer, subject to the fulfilment of all terms and conditions of the offer, will
be postponed accordingly as published in the Offer Prospectus.

The text of the pre-announcement, the Offer Prospectus and all information
concerning the offer restrictions may be downloaded at www.tamedia.ch/goldbach


Further information:
Investor Relations 
Goldbach Group AG
Lukas Leuenberger
CFO
T +41 44 914 91 00  
lukas.leuenberger@goldbachgroup.com
www.goldbachgroup.com 

Corporate Communication
Goldbach Group AG
Jürg Bachmann
Head of Communications & Marketing / Public Affairs
M +41 79 600 32 62 
juerg.bachmann@goldbachgroup.com
www.goldbachgroup.com


The corporate profile of the Goldbach Group
The Goldbach Group companies market and represent advertising in private
electronic media in the areas of television, radio, digital-out-of-home, online,
search engine and mobile marketing. As an independent aggregator, Goldbach
offers its clients advertising windows where selected target groups receive
commercial information at the right time irrespective of their location. The
Group's core business comprises planning, consulting, creation, concept
development, purchasing and implementation through to assessment of the
deployment of electronic offline and online media and cross-media campaigns
based on data-driven technologies.

The Goldbach Group is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (Swiss Reporting
Standard, security number 487094, ISIN CH0004870942, ticker symbol: GBMN), is
based in Switzerland (Küsnacht ZH) and is active in German-speaking countries.

Further information:
http://www.goldbachgroup.com/en-us/investor-relations/ad-hoc-press-releases

Additional features:


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Document title: Ad hoc_Definitive interim result_ENG
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Language: English

Company:  Goldbach Group AG

          Seestrasse 39

          8700 Küsnacht-Zürich

          Switzerland

Phone:    +41 44 914 91 00

Fax:      +41 44 914 93 60

E-mail:    info@goldbachgroup.com

Internet: www.goldbachgroup.com

ISIN:     CH0004870942

Valor:    487094

Listed:   SIX Swiss Exchange



 

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