Al-Hasoob issues prospectus for IPO on Nomu

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Al-Hasoob Trading Co. issued the prospectus for its initial public offering (IPO) on the Nomu Parallel Market.

The company plans to offer 280,000 shares, or 20% of its capital, in the IPO.

In September, the Capital Market Authority (CMA) approved the company’s request to offer 20% of its capital.

The IPO will be confined to qualified investors, according to CMA regulations.

Types of qualified investors:

- Capital market institutions authorized to act on their own account.

- Clients of capital market institutions, who are authorized to carry out management operations, provided that such authorized persons are appointed under terms that enable them to take decisions related to accepting the participation in the share offering and investment in the parallel market, on behalf of the client, without the need to obtain prior consent from the client.

- The Saudi government, any governmental body, any international entity approved by the CMA or the Saudi market, or any other financial market recognized by the CMA or the Securities Depository Center (Edaa).

- Companies that are owned by the government, directly or through private portfolio manager.

- Companies and funds established in the GCC countries.

- Investment funds.

- Non-resident foreigners who are allowed to invest in the parallel market and who fulfill the requirements as stipulated in the guide of non-resident foreigners’ investments in the parallel market.

- Qualified foreign financial institutions.

- Any legal person who has the right to open investment accounts inside the Kingdom, and accounts with Edaa.

- Natural persons who can open investment accounts inside the Kingdom and accounts with Edaa, and who fulfill the following criteria:

1) Have executed deals in securities markets, with a total value of not less than SAR 40 million, and not less than 10 deals in each quarter during the past 12 months.

2) Have net assets value is not less than SAR 5 million.

3) Are working or have worked for at least three years in the financial sector.

4) Hold a general certificate in securities dealing, approved by the CMA.

5) Hold a professional certificate in the field of securities business, approved by an internationally recognized body.

- Any other persons to be defined by the CMA.

Established in 1999 in Riyadh as a sole proprietorship, the company was transformed in February 2020 into a closed joint stock company and increased its capital to SAR 14 million.

Al-Hasoob provides integrated solutions and services in the field of wholesale, retail and computer maintenance in Saudi Arabia, wholesale software including import, marketing services for third parties, IT, transportation, storage and refrigeration.

It offers its services through its headquarters and has local presence in the western, eastern, southern and central regions, through its regional showrooms in Jeddah, Khobar, Riyadh, Tabuk, Khamis Mushit, Jizan and Qassim.

The company's business is concentrated in the Saudi market and does not have any subsidiaries or substantial assets outside Saudi Arabia.

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