Fluidra opens trading with an increase of 4.15% in the price of the offer
October 31, 2007(Not for distribution in the United States, Canada, Australia or Japan)
Fluidra closed its first session in the Spanish stock
exchange at a price of 6.77 Euros per share, an increase of 4.15% in the price
of the offer set at 6.50 Euros.
Fluidra's management is very pleased with the growth rate maintained by the
company's shares in its first day on the market. "Our titles' behaviour reflects
the confidence of the market in the solid project, both now and in the future, of
our group", affirms Eloi Planes, Fluidra's CEO. With its emergence on the
exchange, the company has obtained a higher visibility and an optimum
environment for growth that is reinforced by the support received today on the
exchange floor.
Fluidra's Offer is made up of a maximum of 48,981,049 shares, representing
approximately 43.5% of the group's social capital, including the subscription
option ("green shoe") for insurance brokers. The operation's coordinators are
Banc Sabadell, Citi and Banco Santander.
Note
This document is a press release, not a prospectus. Investors should not subscribe or acquire any shares
or any other types of securities mentioned herein except based on the information contained in the
prospectus that will be published by the company at the appropriate time related to the admission to
trading of the company shares on the Spanish Stock Exchanges. Copies of the prospectus are available
free of charge at the company headquarters, at www.fluidra.com and at www.cnmv.es .
This document does not establish and is not part of any offer or invitation to sell or issue and is not an
application for a purchase offer or subscription of company shares. Likewise, no part of this document or
its distribution are part of, or could be used as, a basis for any contract or investment decision and is not a
recommendation as regards company shares.
This communication is directed exclusively at parties outside of the United Kingdom and cannot be used
by parties located in the United Kingdom.
The offer shall not be the object of registration in any country other than Spain, without detriment to the
usage of the international documents normally employed for public knowledge of offers by qualified
investors who are not residents of Spain. In particular, it is herein set on record that the shares that are the
object of the offer have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933,
or approved or turned down by the Securities and Exchange Commission or by any other United States
authority. Consequently, the shares cannot be the object of offer or sale in the United States except after
prior registry under the US Securities Act or under exemption from this regulation.
Lastly, it is set on record that this document or any copy of the same cannot be taken or sent to the United
States of America, Canada, Australia or Japan or be directly or indirectly distributed in the United States of
America, Canada, Australia or Japan or any resident of any of these countries.