25 October 2024
Tribe
Technology PLC
("Tribe
Tech", the "Company"
or the "Group")
Posting
of notice of General Meeting
and
Appointment of Joint Broker
Tribe Technology PLC (AIM: TRYB), a disruptive
technology-first developer and manufacturer of world-class
autonomous mining equipment, announces that it will today post a
notice to convene a General Meeting of the Company to be held on 13
November 2024 at 12:00 p.m. (the "Notice of GM"). A copy of the Notice of
GM will be available on the Company's website later today at
https://tribetechgroup.com.
The Company is also pleased to announce the
appointment of SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP as Joint Broker with
immediate effect.
Allenby Capital remains as the Company's
Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker.
Background to
and reasons for the General Meeting
On 1 October 2024, the Company announced,
amongst other matters, that it has conducted a review of the entire
autonomous reverse circulation ("RC") TTDS GC 700 drill rig (the
"Drill Rig") following its
arrival at Australian Automation & Robotics Precinct
("AARP") in Australia. This
testing concluded that further significant software development and
systems integration work is required for the Drill Rig's operation
to meet the required specifications prior to dispatch of the Drill
Rig to the customer's mine site (expected in the second quarter of
2025).
It was further announced that in order to
expedite the completion of the necessary additional software
updates, field commissioning, and in turn the completion of the
Drill Rig, the Company now expects to engage further specialist
technical resources which will result in the need for additional
resources and will increase the costs associated with the
completion of the Drill Rig system.
Accordingly, to partially mitigate against the
new working capital requirements, the Company announced a cost
saving exercise to reduce circa 20% of its fixed costs in the
fourth quarter of 2024. These actions are anticipated to enable the
Company to conserve costs for use towards its critical path
priorities as it is focused on the execution of the technical proof
points for the first Drill Rig and sample system product platform.
It was further announced that the Board is pursuing additional
funding for its nearer term working capital
requirements.
The Board continues to explore sources of
additional funding for the Company's nearer term working capital
requirements. This may involve securing a combination of equity and
debt funding, and may involve issuing warrants. However, in order
to secure any such funding on terms favourable to the Company, and
in the interest of time as well as flexibility, the Board believes
that it is in the best interests of the shareholders of the Company
as a whole to pre-emptively obtain the requisite authorities to,
inter alia, allot new
ordinary shares of £0.0005 each in the capital of the Company
("Ordinary Shares") or
grant rights to subscribe for or convert any securities into new
Ordinary Shares.
For further information, please
visit www.tribetechgroup.com or
contact:
Tribe Technology PLC
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via
Tavistock
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Charlie King, Chief Executive
Officer
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Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint
Broker)
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+44 20
3328 5656
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John Depasquale / Vivek Bhardwaj /
Lauren Wright (Corporate Finance)
Tony Quirke / Joscelin Pinnington
(Sales & Corporate Broking)
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info@allenbycapital.com
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SP
Angel Corporate Finance LLP (Joint Broker)
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+44 (0) 20
3470 0470
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Richard Morrison / Charlie Bouverat
(Corporate Finance)
Grant Barker (Sales & Corporate
Broking)
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Tavistock (Financial
PR)
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+44
20 7920 3150
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Rebecca Hislaire / Saskia
Sizen
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tribetech@tavistock.co.uk
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About Tribe
Tech
Established in 2019, Tribe Tech is an AIM
listed company founded to create a safer, more efficient work
environment through the development of fully autonomous RC Drill
Rigs and sampling solutions for the mining industry.
Based in Northern Ireland and Western
Australia, the Group's core activities are the development,
in-house manufacturing, and sale of its autonomous RC Drill Rigs
incorporating its core proprietary intellectual property, the Tribe
Technology Drilling System ("TTDS").
In March 2024, the Company completed the build
of the world's first autonomous RC Drill Rig following orders from
Tier 1 mining companies and 150,000 development hours.
Tribe Tech's market-leading technology will
help to revolutionise the mining industry, enabling digitisation
and intelligent insight through Artificial Intelligence (AI),
dramatically improving safety outcomes and streamlining
operations.