Investor Relations
Extraordinary Announcement of 4iG Plc.
On the acquisition of a 74.34% shareholding in Rába Nyrt. and
the threshold crossing pursuant to Section 61 of the Capital Markets Act
4iG Public Limited Company (“4iG”) hereby informs the capital market participants that its subsidiary, 4iG Space and Defence
Technologies Private Limited Company (registered seat: 1013 Budapest, Krisztina körút 39; company registration number: Cg.
01-10-142725; “4iG S&D”), throughits project company established for this purpose, 4iG SDT EGY Zrt.(registered seat: 1013
Budapest, Krisztina körút 39; company registrationnumber: Cg. 01-10-143379; “SDT EGY”), acting as purchaser, on 5 January
2026 acquired, by way of purchase, exclusive ownership of a share package consisting of 10,015,829, i.e. ten million fifteen
thousand eight hundred twenty-nineregistered ordinary shares of series “A”, each with a nominal value of HUF 1,000 i.e. one
thousand forints, issued by Rába Járműipari Holding Nyrt. (registered seat: 9027 Győr, Martin út 1; company registration number:
08-10-001532; registered by the Company Court of the Győr Regional Court of Justice), as issuer (“Rába” or “Issuer”), representing
an aggregate ownership interest of 74.34% and voting rights of 75.01% (“Transaction”).
As a result of the Transaction – with reference to Section 61 (1) of Act CXX of 2001 on the Capital Market (“Capital Markets
Act”) –
- the number of voting shares directly held by SDT EGY increased from 0, i.e. zero, to 10,015,829, i.e. ten million fifteen
thousand eight hundred twenty-nine, accordingly its ownership interest in the Issuer increased from 0% to 74.34%, and the
extent of its voting rights increased from 0% to 75.01%, thereby crossing the 50% threshold set out in Section 61 (3) of the
Capital Markets Act;
- the number of voting shares directly held by N7 Holding National Defence Industrial Innovation Private Company Limited by
Shares (registered seat: 1087 Budapest, Asztalos S. út 2; registered with the Company Court of the Metropolitan Court under
company registration number 01-10-141325; tax number: 29219317-2-51) changed from 7,321,140, i.e. seven million three hundred
twenty-one thousand one hundred forty, to 0, i.e. zero, accordingly its ownership interest in the Issuer decreased from 54.34%
to 0%, and the extent of its voting rights changed from 54.82% to 0%, thereby falling below the 5% threshold set out in Section
61 (3) of the Capital Markets Act;
- the number of voting shares directly held by Széchenyi István Egyetemért Alapítvány (registered seat: 9026 Győr, Egyetem
tér 1; registered by the Győr Regional Court under registration number 08-01-0051446; tax number: 19251620-1-08) changed from
2,694,689, i.e. two million six hundred ninety-four thousand six hundred eighty-nine, to 0, i.e. zero, accordingly its ownership
interest in the Issuer decreased from 20.00% to 0%, and the extent of its voting rights changed from 20.18% to 0%, thereby
falling below the 5% threshold set out in Section 61 (3) of the Capital Markets Act.
For the acquisition of the remaining 25.66% ownership interest, SDT EGY submitted a mandatory public takeover bid to the minority
shareholders holding the free float pursuant to Section 68 (1) of the Capital Markets Act.
The deadline for accepting the mandatory public takeover bid published on 23 September 2025 expired on 31 October 2025 at
12:00 noon. No acceptance statement was received in respect of the offer by the indicated deadline. The uniform purchase price
applied in the Transaction, HUF 1,789, i.e. one thousand seven hundred eighty-nine forints, per share, was determined in accordance
with the provisions of the mandatory public takeover bid and in compliance with the applicable legal requirements, based on
the equity per share, and was identical for all elements of the Transaction.
Rába, with a history spanning 129 years, is a vehicle manufacturing corporate group of determining significance in Hungary
and listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange. Rába has several decades of defence industry experience. The Hungarian Defence
Forces have been using its vehicles for a long time, and the company also cooperates with domestic and international partners
– including the Turkish defence industry manufacturer Nurol Makina – through the joint venture Gidrán Páncélozott Járművek
Kft. In addition, the corporate group develops axles and axle main units for commercial vehicles, agricultural tractors and
earth-moving machinery, and manufactures and supplies commercial and passenger vehicle components to global automotive markets.
Budapest, 05 January 2026
4iG Plc.