Bastion-Luebbe bond fully placed
The Bastion Luebbe GmbH & Co. KG has its corporate bond (ISIN: DE000A1K0169 / WKN: A1K016) placed with a volume of 30 million € and an annual interest rate of 6.75% and a term of five years full. Of this total, over 75% of the drawings to institutional investors and asset managers, the remainder was subscribed by private investors on the trading platform of the Düsseldorf stock exchange. The full placement of the bond is worth about by the positive response in a wide circle of investors against the backdrop of the current uncertainty in the capital market as a great success. The commencement of trading in the "SME market," the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange and in the unofficial market (Open Market) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange will follow shortly. The proceeds of the Bonds to finance the growth strategy should be used. This includes investment in digital media and potential further acquisitions to the company's market position further. Furthermore, it is also possible to pay down existing loans. The Issuer intends to diversify its value chain to more long term and to develop into a multi-dimensional media company with a diverse use of the contents. In addition to the already heavily occupied areas "Print", "Audio" and "E-Publishing" are also the areas of "TV / Cinema," "Game," "Merchandising" and "non-book" to be strengthened. The planned use of funds in the areas of digital media includes not only the existing rights of exploitation to develop their own content and related investments. The Close Brothers Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main, worked the lead as sole global coordinator and bookrunner for the transaction and placed the bonds in European institutional investors and asset managers. Private investors subscribed on the commercial segment, "the SME market," the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange. The Conpair AG, Essen, restructured the entire process on the Issuer and accompanied the transaction as a financial advisor and capital markets partner of the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange. The Bastion Luebbe GmbH & Co. KG is a large group of independent book publisher based in Germany. Under the umbrella brand "Lübbe Bastion" a wide range of books of about 3,500 available titles will be distributed. In addition to historical novels, Mystery, thrillers, non-fiction children's books and audio books are also developing content for digital books and sold. In addition, periodical fiction and puzzle books are published and distributed.