Taiga Announces Extension of Normal Course Issuer Bid
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BURNABY, BC, Aug. 11, 2020 /CNW/ - Taiga Building Products Ltd. ("Taiga" or the "Company") (TSX: TBL) announces that the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") has accepted Taiga's notice of intention to make a new normal course issuer bid (the "2020 NCIB") for its common shares (Trading Symbol: TBL) (the "Common Shares") through the facilities of the TSX or any other Canadian public marketplace or alternative trading system and renews Taiga's normal course issuer bid program that is scheduled to expire on August 12, 2020. On August 13, 2020, Taiga may commence making purchases, from time to time, up to a maximum of 5,489,272 of its 109,785,457 outstanding Common Shares as at the date hereof, representing 5% of the outstanding Common Shares. The actual number of Common Shares which may be purchased pursuant to the 2020 NCIB will be determined by the Company. The 2020 NCIB will terminate on August 12, 2021 or earlier if Taiga has completed its purchases of the securities subject to the 2020 NCIB. Purchases may be suspended by Taiga at any time and Taiga reserves the right to terminate the 2020 NCIB earlier if it determines it is appropriate to do so.
Taiga believes that the 2020 NCIB is in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders and that the NCIB represents a desirable use of corporate funds. Any Common Shares acquired pursuant to the 2020 NCIB will be purchased at the prevailing market price up to a daily maximum of 2,270 Common Shares, being 25% of the average daily trading volume for the last six completed calendar months of 9,080 Common Shares, subject to the block purchase exemption, and will be cancelled following purchase.
In the previous 12 months from the date here (August 13, 2019 – July 31, 2020), the maximum number of Common Shares that the Company sought and obtained approval to purchase under its prior normal course issuer bid (the "Prior NCIB") was 5,778,181 Common Shares and 5,778,181 outstanding Common Shares were repurchased through the facilities of the TSX and Chi-X Canada exchange between the period of August 1, 2019 to July 31, 2020 at the volume weighted average price of $1.02 per Common Share.
The Prior NCIB commenced on August 13, 2019 and will conclude on August 12, 2020. The Company repurchased an aggregate of 5,778,181 outstanding Common Shares through the facilities of the TSX and Chi-X Canada exchange at the volume weighted average price of $1.02 per Common Share over the entire course of the Prior NCIB.
Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains forward-looking information that is based on current expectations, beliefs, assumptions, estimates and forecasts about the business and the industry and markets in which the Company operates. Forward-looking information does not guarantee future performance and involves risks, uncertainties and assumptions which are difficult to predict and which may cause Taiga's actual results in future periods to differ materially from expected results. In particular, statements about the Company's plans, intentions or potential outcome regarding the 2020 NCIB constitute forward-looking information. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking information involves risks and uncertainties including, without limitation, those risk factors listed from time to time in the Company's public filings. These risks, as well as others, could cause actual results and events to vary significantly. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information, which are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Taiga does not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to or updating any voluntary forward-looking information, except as required by applicable securities law.
SOURCE Taiga Building Products Ltd.
For further information: Mark Schneidereit-Hsu, VP, Finance and Administration and CFO, Tel: 604.438.1471, Email: [email protected]
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