High street giant Marks & Spencer has revealed 85.1% take-up for its £600 million investor cash-call to finance its joint venture deal with online grocer Ocado.
Shares in the group fell 2% as results of the rights issue were announced.
The underwriters will now look for buyers of the near-15% of shares not snapped up by existing M&S shareholders.
M&S launched its £601.3 million rights issue last month - offering one share for every five currently held - to help fund the deal with Ocado to boost its food offering and online delivery service.
Investors and analysts have expressed concern about the deal, which will see M&S spend £750 million to buy half of Ocado's UK retail business.
Some analysts have said M&S is paying a high price.
The move is the latest action taken by M&S to overhaul its business as it embarks on a major programme of store closures.
M&S posted a 10% drop in annual underlying pre-tax profits last month to £523.2 million for the year to March 30.
It also outlined plans to close another 85 full-line stores and around 25 Simply Food outlets on top of the 35 full-line branches closed in
2018-19 under a previously-announced restructure.
It said the overall size of the chain will remain in line with plans as it also opens and relocates shops, having launched another 48 full-service stores in the past financial year.
The chain also recently narrowly avoided being booted out of the FTSE 100 after its shares have tumbled by nearly a fifth over the past six months, which was thanks to its rights issue.
Independent retail analyst Nick Bubb said M&S saw a "reasonably good" response to the rights issue.
He added: "Despite all the bad vibes about current trading and the second thoughts in some quarters about the wisdom of the Ocado deal, the £600 million rights issue was sizeable enough to preserve M&S's fragile hold on its place in the FTSE 100 index in the recent review and it was deeply discounted enough to encourage a reasonably good take-up from shareholders."
M&S also has a large army of small retail investors, who account for 20% of its shareholder base, many of which hold shares in their own name, which is understood to be a limiting factor in the take-up of its rights issue.
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