LEWIS GROUP LIMITED - Notification of Update in Relation to Lewis Group Limited's ZAR2,000,000,000 Domestic Medium Term Note Programme

Notification of Update in Relation to Lewis Group Limited's ZAR2,000,000,000 Domestic Medium Term Note Programme

Lewis Group Limited
Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa
Registration number: 2004/009817/06
JSE share code:LEWI
(the “Issuer”)

NOTIFICATION OF UPDATE IN RELATION TO LEWIS GROUP LIMITED’S ZAR2,000,000,000
DOMESTIC MEDIUM TERM NOTE PROGRAMME


In terms of the JSE Limited’s (JSE) Debt Listings Requirements, Noteholders are advised that the Issuer’s
ZAR2,000,000,000 Domestic Medium Term Note Programme, unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by
Lewis Stores Proprietary Limited (as Initial Guarantor), originally dated 23 October 2013 has been updated
by an amended and restated Programme Memorandum, which was registered with the JSE on 22 February
2019 (the “Programme Memorandum”).


The Programme Memorandum is available for inspection on the Issuer’s website at the following link:


http://www.lewisgroup.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lewis-Group-Limited-DMTN-
Update_Programme-Memorandum_2019.02.21-signed.docx.pdf


The update of the Programme Memorandum included:

-   The terms and conditions have been updated for the following:
          - for amendments to the JSE Debt Listings Requirements (the Requirements), which includes but
            is not limited to, amendments to cater for the Part 1A of 2018 amendments to the Requirements
            and for paragraphs 7.26 and 7.27 of the Requirements;
-   The Risk Factors section has been removed from the Programme Memorandum and will be published on
    the Issuer’s website at http://www.lewisgroup.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lewis-Group-Limited-
    DMTN_Issuer-Disclosure-Document.pdf;
-   The Description of the Issuer section, including, but not limited to, its business, management, directors
    and corporate governance disclosure has been removed from the Programme Memorandum and will be
    published on the Issuer’s website at http://www.lewisgroup.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lewis-
    Group-Limited-DMTN_Issuer-Disclosure-Document.pdf; and
-   the South African Exchange Control section has been removed from the Programme Memorandum and
    will be published on the Issuer’s website at http://www.lewisgroup.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lewis-Group-Limited-DMTN_Issuer-Disclosure-Document.pdf



26 February 2019

Debt Sponsor
Absa Bank Limited, acting through its Corporate and Investment Banking division

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