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Chief Operating Officer of Yew Lee, Ms. Amber Ang (洪宝意小姐)
Managing Director of Yew Lee, Mr. Ang Lee Leong (洪利隆先生)
Managing Director of Corporate Finance of M&A Securities, Datuk Bill Tan (陈俊㟽先生)
Deputy Head, Corporate Finance of M&A Securities Mr. Danny Wong (黄荣良先生)
KUALA LUMPUR, 13 April 2022 – YEW LEE PACIFIC GROUP BERHAD (“Yew Lee” or the “Company”), an established manufacturer of industrial brushes as well as the trading of machinery parts and industrial hardware is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into an underwriting agreement with M&A Securities Sdn Bhd (“M&A Securities”) today for the Company’s upcoming initial public offering (“IPO”) on the ACE Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad (“Bursa Securities”).
The IPO exercise involves the public issue of 133.1 million shares and an offer for sale of 26.62 million shares to selected investors. From the public issue, 26.62 million shares will be made available for application by the Malaysian public via balloting; 15.97 million shares will be allocated to its eligible directors and employees (“pink forms”); another 23.96 million shares will be reserved for private placement to selected investors and; an allocation of 66.55 million shares will be allocated through private placement to bumiputera investors approved by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (“MITI”).
Under the underwriting agreement, M&A Securities will underwrite 42.59 million shares of the total proposed issue of shares allocated to the Malaysian public and through pink forms. M&A Securities will also place out 90.51 million issue shares to selected investors and bumiputera investors approved by MITI.
Managing Director of Yew Lee, Mr. Ang Lee Leong, said: “We are delighted to be working with M&A Securities on our IPO as this underwriting agreement marks the first stage of the path towards our eventual successful listing on the ACE Market of Bursa Securities. This listing will help us to raise the capital needed for our expansion plans while at the same time, boost our brand visibility in the industrial brush industry.”
Managing Director of Corporate Finance of M&A Securities, Datuk Bill Tan said, “We are pleased to be playing a key role in the IPO exercise of Yew Lee. The Company has solid experience and expertise in the production of industrial brushes with a history that goes back to the early 1990s. It has come far but we have no doubt that Yew Lee will build upon this listing to go even further and excel. We wish the Company well as it enters a new stage in its growth.”
Yew Lee manufactures industrial brushes for a variety of industries, including glove, industrial, electrical and electronic, industrial and commercial cleaning providers as well as glass and wood producers. For the financial year ended 31 December 2020 (“FY2020”), Malaysia contributed 81.4% of total revenue, with Thailand contributing 6.7% and Vietnam contributing 6.2%. By industry, glove manufacturers contributed 88% to revenue in FY2020.
