Company: FCFS
Filing Date: 2025-07-02
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0000840489-25-000089
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Company: FirstCash Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-02
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 7.01
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Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure

As previously announced, the boards of directors of Chess Bidco Limited (“ Bidco”), a newly-established indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of FirstCash Holdings, Inc. (the “ Company”), and H& T Group plc, a company incorporated in England and Wales (“ H& T”), agreed on the terms of a recommended final* cash acquisition, pursuant to which Bidco will acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of H& T (the “ Acquisition”) by means of a Court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006 (the “ Scheme”).

On July 2, 2025, Bidco and H& T announced that the H& T shareholders have approved the Scheme and all related matters and that the Acquisition is expected to be consummated in the second half of 2025, subject to the satisfaction (or, where applicable, the waiver) of the remaining closing conditions, including receipt of the required approvals by the UK Financial Conduct Authority. A copy of this announcement is furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated into this Item 7.01 by reference.

The information provided in this Item 7.01 (including Exhibit 99.1) shall not deemed to be “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, nor shall it be incorporated by reference in any filing made by the Company pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, other than to the extent that such filing incorporates by reference any or all of such information by express reference thereto.

* The financial terms of the Acquisition are final and will not be increased or improved, except that Bidco reserves the right to increase the amount of the cash consideration payable by it (i) if there is an announcement on or after 14 May 2025 of a possible offer or a firm intention to make an offer for H& T by a third party or (ii) with the consent of the UK’s Panel on Takeovers and Mergers (which will be granted only in wholly exceptional circumstances).

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.