13 December 2024
Electric Guitar PLC
("Electric Guitar"
or the "Company")
Liquidation of 3radical
Limited
Electric Guitar PLC (LSE: ELEG) announces that,
further to the Company's announcement of 28
November 2024 and following a marketing exercise of the business
and assets of 3radical Limited ("3radical") (the Group's main operating
subsidiary) as a going concern with the assistance of KRE Corporate
Recovery Limited ("KRE"), and after a
number of enquiries and discussions, no offers for the business as
a going concern have been received.
As a result of 3radical's revenues
and new business generation being significantly below expectations
of the Board and a constraint in capital, the Company is unable to
provide further funding to 3radical. The Company's Board had been
actively seeking additional capital, but in the event had been
unable to secure further investment either to continue to finance
3radical's business, or to pursue its advertising and marketing
technology 'buy and build' mission. As a result, 3radical is not
able to pay its debts as they fall due and the Board of 3radical
has instructed KRE to assist with placing 3radical into creditors'
voluntary liquidation ("CVL") later this month.
Formal liquidation notices are being prepared and are
expected to be issued later today. KRE will now
invite offers for 3radical's assets. As a result of the CVL, the
Company expects to incur a write-off of approximately £1 million
from the loans owed to it by 3radical.
Electric Guitar plc is not a trading
company, has no operating revenues and, once 3radical enters CVL,
the Company will cease to own, control, or conduct all or
substantially all its previous trading business, activities or
assets. Therefore, for the purposes of the AIM Rules for Companies
(the "AIM Rules"), the
Company is expected to be classified as an AIM Rule 15 cash shell
upon 3radical entering into the CVL, which is expected to take
place following a shareholder meeting of 3radical on or around 23
December 2024 (the "Effective
Date"). As such, the Company will be required to make an
acquisition or acquisitions which constitute a reverse takeover
under AIM Rule 14 or seek re-admission to AIM as an investing
company (as defined under the AIM Rules) on or before the date
falling six months from the Effective Date, failing which the
Company's ordinary shares would then be suspended from trading on
AIM pursuant to AIM Rule 40.
The Board of directors of Electric
Guitar continues to review options available to the Company
including, inter alia, seeking financing to allow the Company to
pursue an acquisition strategy. The Company currently has minimal
cash balances and known creditors of approximately £1 million.
Accordingly, the Company's ordinary shares remain suspended from
trading on AIM pending clarification of the Company's financial
position and further updates will be provided as
appropriate.
A further announcement will be made
in due course.
For further
information:
Electric
Guitar PLC
John Regan, CEO
KRE Corporate
Recovery
Christopher Errington
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info@electricguitarplc.com
01189 977
357
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Allenby
Capital (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)
Jeremy Porter / Piers Shimwell / Dan
Dearden-Williams
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020 3328
5656
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Axis Capital
Markets (Joint Broker)
Richard Hutchison
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020 3026
0320
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GIS (Joint
Broker)
James Sheehan
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020 7048
9400
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Notes to
Editors
Electric Guitar PLC (AIM: ELEG) is the provider
of first-party data solutions for the marketing and advertising
industry, empowering businesses to realise the value of their
first-party data. In an era of changing consumer attitudes towards
the use of their data, tighter privacy legislation, and the demise
of third-party cookies, first-party data is now the key to success
in digital marketing. Electric Guitar's strategy has been to
acquire and scale businesses that help marketers maximise the value
of first-party data by curating, managing, and deploying it, and in
doing so making Electric Guitar the industry standard for
first-party data solutions. As the first part of this strategy,
Electric Guitar acquired 3radical Limited, a company that utilises
its Software as a Service platform, 3radical Voco, to enable
organisations to engage individuals and request their data directly
using interactive digital experiences.
For further information please
visit www.electricguitarplc.com.