KD Group, financial company, d.d., Dunajska cesta 63, 1000 Ljubljana (hereinafter: the Offeror) hereby announces to the public that, in accordance with Article 24 of the Takeovers Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 79/06, as amended and supplemented – hereinafter: ZPre-1) to make a voluntary takeover bid for the purchase of all shares in GEA COLLEGE d.d., business education, Dunajska cesta 156, 1000 Ljubljana (hereinafter: the target company), of which the offeror is not the holder.
As at the date of publication of the takeover intention, the offeror holds 159,400 ordinary, freely transferable bearer shares with voting rights (ticker symbol GEAL1) and 113,132 ordinary, freely transferable bearer shares with voting rights (ticker symbol GEAL) in the target company, representing 66.57 per cent of all shares in the target company.
The shares of the target company are issued in dematerialised form and registered in the central register maintained by KDD-Central Clearing and Depository Company, d.d., Ljubljana. The shares of the target company are not traded on an organised market.
On 1 October 2012, the offeror notified the Securities Market Agency, the Competition Protection Office of the Republic of Slovenia and the management of the target company of the takeover intention in accordance with Article 24 of the ZPre-1.
The offeror will publish a takeover bid to acquire all the shares of the target company no later than thirty days and no earlier than ten days after the publication of this takeover intention.
This notice was published in the newspaper *Dnevnik* on 1 October 2012 and, from 1 October 2012 onwards, also on the company’s website
www.kd-group.com under ‘Public Announcements’.
KD Group d.d.
KD Group d.d.
