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Cooks Coffee Company repositioning – shareholder update

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6 April 2022


Dear shareholder


Cooks Coffee Company repositioning: shareholder update


Cooks Coffee Company Limited (NZX: CCC) (“Cooks”), has recently completed a significant

repositioning, following on from a capital raising started in late November 2021 and completed in

mid-March 2022. This is part of an overall signal to shareholders and the market that the company

has come through the last two years of the Covid-19 government imposed restrictions on trading and

are now well positioned and looking forward to putting in place the structures that will take the

company into the future.


Cooks name and ticker code change


Effective from 30 March 2022, Cooks changed its name from ‘Cooks Global Foods Limited’ to ‘Cooks

Coffee Company Limited’ to better align with the nature of the Company’s business operations.


Cooks also arranged to change the company’s ticker code for trading through NZX to ‘CCC’, also

effective 30 March 2022.


Consolidation of share capital on a 15 into 1 basis


Cooks has also completed a share consolidation in order to rationalise the number of ordinary shares

on issue. Every 15 Cooks shares held as at 5:00 p.m. on 30 March 2022 were consolidated into one

share, with all fractional entitlements rounded to the nearest whole number of shares (and any

fractional entitlements to a half share being rounded up).


What this means is that for every 15 shares you previously held you now hold one. The share price

that had recently traded around 3 cents per share is now trading around 45 cents per share (15 times

the previous price, reflecting the consolidation).


As a result of the consolidation, Cooks now has 51,726,160 quoted ordinary shares (NZX: CCC) and

1,333,333 non-voting shares on issue.


Capital raising


Cooks raised around $5.5 million from existing shareholders and new investors under a rights issue in

December 2021 and a part placement of the shortfall. Some of the capital was provided by

conversion of debts of the company into equity. Cooks is continuing to negotiate with some of its

lenders to convert further debts into shares.


Small share parcels


Cooks also advises that it intends to exercise the power of sale of shares held by persons with less

than 1,125 shares on 30 March 2022, being approximately $500 of Cooks shares (which is less than a

“Minimum Holding” of $1,000 Cooks shares under the NZX Listing Rules). Formal notice will be sent

to those shareholders about this and the options they have in response to the notice.

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31 March 2022 Results


Cooks is scheduled to release its preliminary results for the period to 31 March 2022 before the end

of May and audited accounts by the end of June 2022. The results, and any other announcements by

Cooks are available from https://www.nzx.com/companies/CCC/announcements.



For more information please contact:

Keith Jackson

Cooks Coffee Company Limited

Chairman & CEO

Contact details: +6421 702 509

keith.jackson@cookscoffeecompany.com

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