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Kinovo PLC on Wednesday announced it has agreed on the terms of a potential takeover by Sureserve Group Ltd, in a deal which values its entire share capital at around £56.4 million. The London-based property services group said, under the terms of the offer, each Kinovo shareholder will be entitled to receive 87.5 pence per Kinovo share in cash. This was a 41.1% premium to its 62.0p closing price on Friday last week. The offer follows ‘a number of earlier proposals’ from Sureserve, Kinovo had said earlier this week. Sureserve is a compliance and energy services provider to the UK social infrastructure sector Kinovo does not intend to pay a dividend or make any other distribution between Wednesday and the completion of the deal. The offer currently has support from Kinovo shareholders representing 47% of the firm’s shares. ‘The potential of the combined group - Sureserve’s stature within UK compliance and energy services and Kinovo’s reputation within its housing association and local authority clients - is compelling,’ said Kinovo Non-Executive Chair Sangita Shah. Shah continued: ‘As a board we unanimously recommend this deal to our shareholders, believing that this acquisition presents an opportunity to realise immediate value and at a meaningful premium.’ In November, Kinovo said pretax profit for the six months that ended September 30 grew 7.4% to £2.8 million from £2.6 million the year before. Revenue fell 2.3% to £29.6 million from £30.3 million last year, due to a ‘significant’ deferral to its second half of a contract with the London borough of Hackney. Shares in Kinovo were up 3.7% at 84.00 pence each in London on Wednesday afternoon. The stock has risen 43% over the past five days. Copyright 2025 Alliance News Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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