Boston International Holdings Plc
CHAIRMAN’S REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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I have pleasure in presenting the financial statements of Boston International Holdings Plc (the
“Company”) for the year ended 31 December 2024.
During the financial year, the Company reported a net loss before taxation of 19.2p per share. There
was no revenue in the period. The loss reflects the operating loss of the Company for the period of
£323,900. As at 31 December 2024, the Company had cash at bank of £9,110.
On 3 January 2024, the Directors of BIH each individually subscribed for a total of £23,217.54 new
zero coupon convertible unsecured loan notes (the "New 2024 Loan Notes"). The New 2024 Loan
Notes were repayable on 31 March 2024, do not carry interest and are convertible into ordinary shares
at a price of 0.75p. The Directors subscribed for the following amounts of New 2024 Loan Notes:
Christopher Pitman: £5,804.38; Martin Lampshire: £5,804.38; Richard Hartheimer: £5,804.39 and
William Borden James: £5,804.39.
On 24 May 2024, the Company announced the termination of the potential acquisition of Hyperion.
On 11 July 2024, the Company counter-signed a non-binding letter of intent dated 30 June 2024
received from Linkvalue Investment Limited ("LVIL"), a privately owned company incorporated in
the British Virgin Islands, for the subscription by LVIL (or its nominee) for such number of new
ordinary shares in the Company as would represent a 51% of the Company's enlarged and fully diluted
share capital of the Company for an aggregate of £306,000 in cash, payable on completion of the
subscription. LVIL is under the same family ownership as Al-Braik Investments LLC, a diversified
holding company based in the United Arab Emirates and specialising in real estate, oil & gas,
hospitality, franchising, investment, construction and construction support services. The proposed
subscription, if completed, would result in the Company's existing shareholders having a minority
shareholding in the Company. LVIL did not own any existing ordinary shares or other securities in the
Company. Pursuant to the LOI, LVIL paid a cash deposit of £65,000 to the Company, to be used by the
Company to pay certain agreed creditors and professional fees.
On 29 July 2024, the listing of the Company's 148,219,943 Ordinary Shares then in issue on the Official
List was transferred from the 'standard' segment to the 'Equity shares (shell companies)' category on 29
July 2024, as a result of the new UK Listing Rules becoming effective on that date. However, the listing
of the Ordiary Shares on the Official List which had been suspended at 8.00 a.m. on 27 April 2023,
remained suspended on 29 July 2024, notwithstanding the change in listing category.
On 2 October 2024, the Final Repayment Date of all outstanding convertible loan notes issued by the
Company (including the New 2024 Loan Notes) was extended (with the consent of the holders in all
cases) to 31 December 2025 and some minor changes to such convertible loan notes were made to
reflect the new UK Listing Rules and the new FCA Listing categories. The extension of the Final
Repayment Date' of the outstanding £147,857 nominal zero coupon convertible unsecured loan notes
(No. 3) which are held by Borden James (an existing Director of BIH) and of the outstanding £23,217.64
nominal zero coupon convertible unsecured loan notes (No. 4) which are held by the (then) four
Directors of the Company, constituted 'material related party transactions' for the purposes of DTR
7.3.8R. Considering the Company's need to conserve cash and to put its Convertible Loan Note
arrangements on a solvent basis, the board of directors of the Company (the “Board
”) considered that
the terms of such 'related party transactions' were fair and reasonable insofar as the shareholders of the
Company as a whole are concerned and accordingly approved them. In the Board's consideration, each
transaction with individual Directors has been separately considered and in so doing, each Director who
was the 'related party' did not take part in the Board's consideration of each transaction and did not vote
on the relevant Board resolution.