Warning to shareholders

Along with other UK listed companies, ABF has been asked to warn shareholders about the threat from unauthorised, high-pressure sales firms, known colloquially as ‘boiler rooms’. Often based overseas, boiler room operations target investors illegally offering to sell them non- tradable, overpriced or even non-existent shares.

Such activities have prompted a joint statement by the Financial Services Authority, (the UK’s financial services regulator) and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (the UK’s leading authority on corporate governance).

To view the statement, which includes a link through to a guidance leaflet explaining what a boiler room is, the dangers of dealing with one and how to avoid them, please go to the FSA website at:

http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Library/Communication/PR/2008/067.shtml