CANAL+ SA (LSE: CAN, the "Company"), the global media and entertainment company, announces today that, further to its announcement on 27 November 2025 of the successful pricing of its first offering of €700 million of senior unsecured notes due 2030 (the "Notes"), the information memorandum in respect of the Notes as approved by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange is available on its website https://www.canalplusgroup.com/en and will be made available on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange website at: http://www.bourse.lu.
Founded as a French subscription-TV channel 40 years ago, CANAL+ is now a global media and entertainment company. On 22 September 2025, CANAL+ confirmed it is in effective control of MultiChoice Group and beginning the integration process. MultiChoice is Africa's leading entertainment platform, offering a wide range of products and services, including DStv, GOtv, Showmax, M-Net, SuperSport, Irdeto, and KingMakers. Together, the new combined group has 40 million subscribers worldwide, operates in over 70 countries and has approximately 17,000 employees.
CANAL+ operates across the entire audio-visual value chain, including production, broadcast, distribution and aggregation. It is home to STUDIOCANAL, a leading film and television studio with worldwide production and distribution capabilities; Dailymotion, major international video platform powered by cutting-edge proprietary technology for video delivery, advertising, and monetization; CANAL+ Distribution, a production and distribution company specialising in creating and distributing diverse content and channels; and telecommunication services, through GVA in Africa and CANAL+ Telecom in the French overseas jurisdictions and territories.
CANAL+ also has significant equity stakes in Viaplay (the Pay-TV leader in Scandinavia), Viu (a leading OTT platform in Southern Asia) and UGC, a leading French cinema group.
This press release, and the information contained therein, does not constitute an offer or solicitation to purchase or subscribe for the Notes in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, or in any other state or jurisdiction where such an offer or solicitation would be unlawful, including in the absence of registration or approval under the laws of that state or jurisdiction.
The offer and subscription of the Notes may be subject in certain countries to specific legal or regulatory restrictions. The Company accepts no liability for any breach by any person of these restrictions.
This press release constitutes a communication of a promotional nature but does not constitute a prospectus within the meaning of Regulation 2017/1129, as amended (the "Prospectus Regulation"). The distribution of this press release may, in certain countries, be subject to specific regulations. Persons in possession of this document are required to inform themselves of any local restrictions and to comply with them. The Company accepts no responsibility towards any person in connection with the distribution of this press release or the information contained therein in any country.
European Economic Area. The Notes may not be and have not been offered to the public in any Member State of the European Economic Area ("EEA") (each a "Relevant State"), except in accordance with the derogations provided for in Article 1(4) of the Prospectus Regulation. No action has been or will be taken to permit an offer to the public of the Notes other than to qualified investors in a Relevant State.
PRIIPS REGULATION /PROHIBITION OF SALES TO EEA RETAIL INVESTORS - The Notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to, any retail investor in the EEA. For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or both) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive (EU) No 2014/65 (as amended, "MiFID II"); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) No 2016/97 dated 20 January 2016 on insurance distribution, as amended (the "Insurance Distribution Directive"), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II. Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as amended, the "PRIIPs Regulation") for offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPS Regulation.
MiFID II product governance / target market - The information memorandum for the Notes contains a legend entitled "EU MiFID II product governance / professional investors and ECPs only target market" describing the target market assessment with respect to the Notes and the appropriate distribution channels for the Notes. Any person subsequently offering, selling or recommending the Notes (a "Distributor") must consider the target market assessment; a Distributor subject to MiFID II is responsible for conducting its own target market assessment with respect to the Notes (by adopting or refining the target market assessment) and determining appropriate distribution channels.