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TyraTech Inc.: Placing and admission to trading

25 May 2007

TyraTech (AIM:TYR), the pioneer of safer, effective and natural pesticide products, has today published its admission document relating to its Placing and Admission to trading on AIM.

Highlights:

  • gross proceeds of the Placing of £25 million ($49.7 million);
  • Placing price of 500 pence per share;
  • market capitalisation of £110 million on Admission, based on Placing price;
  • Admission and dealings expected on 1 June 2007;
  • proceeds to be used to facilitate product development and commercialisation, enhance the Company’s product support operations and retire existing debt obligations; and
  • Nomura Code Securities Limited (“Nomura Code”) is acting as Nominated Adviser and both Nomura Code and Jefferies International Limited (“Jefferies”) are acting as joint brokers to the Company.


TyraTech is developing and commercialising natural, safer and highly effective plant-oil derived products to kill or repel insects and parasites. These products are selectively toxic to invertebrates through the targeting of specific chemo-receptors present in insects, parasites and other invertebrates, but absent from humans and other mammals.

The Company has more than 24 products in active development and plans to release six of these within the next twelve months. TyraTech is currently working with a number of leading blue-chip partners: Syngenta Crop Protection AG, The Scotts Company LLC, Arysta LifeScience North America Corporation, and Kraft Foods Holdings.

“The positive international reception by high quality institutional investors reflects the exciting, innovative products that TyraTech is bringing to the global markets” said R. Douglas Armstrong, Ph.D., chief executive officer of TyraTech. “We are particularly indebted to our talented employees and appreciative of our world class partners for their ability to recognize and invest in a new standard of highly potent products that control insects and parasites yet are safer for humans, animals and the environment – a standard being increasingly sought by the pesticide industry and now recognized by the capital markets.”

For further information:
TyraTech Inc. 
Douglas Armstrong PhD, Chief Executive Officer+1 (321) 409 7403
 www.tyratech.com
Nomura Code Securities 
Charles Walker+44 (0) 20 7776 1200
 www.nomuracode.com
Jefferies International Limited
Jack Pryde+44 (0) 20 7618 3500
 www.jefferies.com
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