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Issuer:     Gates Industrial Corp plc (GTES)
CIK:        0001718512
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-08-20T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001718512-24-000073
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 5.02, 8.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Gates Industrial announces $125M share repurchase as Blackstone sells 23M shares in secondary offering
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- Secondary offering of 20M shares priced after Aug 15 close; underwriters' 3M option exercised in full; expected close Aug 21.
- Company to repurchase $125M of shares (7,539,203 shares) from the offering via Citigroup, conditioned on closing.
- Director agreed to purchase ordinary shares in the offering.
- Thomas Pitstick appointed President Americas effective Aug 16; no compensation change.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1718512/000171851224000073/0001718512-24-000073-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1718512/000171851224000073/gtes-20240815.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001718512-24-000073

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