Going public helps Mayfield bring manufacturing home
The 84-year-old company has listed on the Australian stock exchange as part of a bid to boost its manufacturing in South Australia and grow its business. Electrical manufacturing business Mayfield Group Investments completed the back-door listing on Wednesday with the reverse takeover of ASX-listed Stream Group. The new entity, known as Mayfield Group Holdings (MYG), listed at an initial public offering (IPO) price of $0.36 on Wednesday and by the close of business yesterday the share price had risen to $0.60 with a market cap of $50.84 million. Headquartered in Edinburgh north of Adelaide, Mayfield also has offices and manufacturing facilities in Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and some 200 staff. The company was founded in Adelaide in 1936 as FR Mayfield and provides a suite of electrical products and services for renewables, transmission and industrial infrastructure for a number of sectors including defence, mining and oil and gas. Its products include high voltage electrical switch rooms for power distribution and control for renewables (wind and solar), mining, heavy industry and utilities. While the IPO only set out to and successfully raised $1.2 million, Mayfield CEO and managing director Jon Hobbs said the listing would enable a significant growth phase to begin. “We have a growth mindset and certainly we have targets but the first step for us was to list and be able to access equity markets,” he told InDaily. “I would call us a conservative company with high aspirations, so for us it was about achieving a public listing, doing this very responsibly and with good governance and then preparing ourselves to take the next strategic step when we would come back to the market. “We are pleased that the market sees the value in our business purpose and in the trends we see in the market but equally […]