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Goldbach Group AG

EQS-Adhoc: Goldbach Group AG: Provisional interim result regarding Tamedia's public tender offer for the Goldbach Group

EQS Group-Ad-hoc: Goldbach Group AG / Key word(s): Preliminary Results/Takeover
Goldbach Group AG: Provisional interim result regarding Tamedia's public tender
offer for the Goldbach Group

21-March-2018 / 07:20 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  
 
Provisional interim result regarding Tamedia's public tender offer for the
Goldbach Group

Küsnacht, 21.03.2018.Tamedia's takeover offer for the Goldbach Group has taken a
key hurdle. By the end of the offer period a total of 89.48% of the shares were
tendered to Tamedia. The offer is therefore likely to be accepted. The grace
period for shareholders who have not yet tendered their shares will commence on
27 March and end on 11 April 2018, 4:00 pm.

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. By the end of the offer period at
4:00 pm on 20 March 2018, a total of 5'631'725 of the shares issued by the
Goldbach Group had been tendered. This represents 89.48% 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%
 
This interim result is provisional. The definitive interim result for the offer
will be published by Tamedia on 26 March 2018. Shareholders who have not yet
tendered their shares may do so during the grace period of 10 trading days from
27 March to 11 April 2018, 4:00 pm CET.

Tamedia intends to urge Goldbach, upon acceptance of the offer, to apply for the
Goldbach shares to be delisted from the SIX Swiss Exchange. If over 90% of the
shares are delivered, Tamedia plans to compensate the remaining minority
shareholders with cash compensation.

The offer is subject to the offer restrictions in the Offer Prospectus. The
offer is among other things subject to 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 atwww.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:


Document:http://n.eqs.com/c/fncls.ssp?u=CSQRQSGJVD
Document title: Adhoc_Provisional 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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