(PRESS RELEASE) -- To increase the liquidity and better facilitate trading in Unibet Group’s SDRs the Board of Directors of Unibet Group plc proposed a split in the issued shares of 8:1 by splitting the 28,764,630 shares of a nominal value of GBP 0.005 each in the capital of the company into 230,117,040 shares of a nominal value of GBP 0.000625.
At the Extraordinary General Meeting on Dec. 18, 2015, shareholders approved the proposed share split 8:1.
The first trading day after the split will be Monday, Jan. 4, 2016.
The allocation of new subdivided SDRs will take place on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 to owners of SDR's registered in the register kept by Euroclear Sweden AB as at Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016.
Unibet Group plc is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm through Swedish Depositary Receipts (SDRs) issued by Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ). One SDR represents one ordinary share. The trading symbol is UNIB SDB and the ISIN code is SE0001835588.
As from Jan. 4, 2016, SDRs in Unibet Group plc will be traded under the new ISIN code SE0007871645 and quoted on Nasdaq Stockholm's Large Cap list. The trading symbol is unchanged (UNIB SDB).