Director Share Transfer to Trust

RNS Number : 3985R

Abingdon Health PLC

01 March 2023

 

Abingdon Health plc

("Abingdon Health" or "the Company")

Director Share Transfer to Trust

York, U.K. 1 March 2023:  Abingdon Health plc (AIM: ABDX), a leading international lateral flow contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), announces that it received notification on 28 February 2023 that Dr Chris Hand, Non-executive Chairman, transferred 3,000,000 ordinary shares of 0.025 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") from his personal account into The CW Hand 2023 Settlement, a discretionary trust in which Dr Hand is a trustee. Dr Hand retains an additional 10,027,667 Ordinary Shares outside of the trust.

Dr Hand has advised the Company that he has no intention of selling Ordinary Shares, either from those held inside the trust or those held outside of the trust.

Following this transaction the percentage of Ordinary Shares that Dr Hand retains outside of the trust combined with those for which he is a trustee remains at 10.7 per cent.

Further details are set out in the PDMR form below, made in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 which is part of UK law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.

Enquiries

Abingdon Health plc		www.abingdonhealth.com/investors/
Chris Yates, Chief Executive Officer		Via Walbrook PR
Melanie Ross , Chief Financial Officer
Chris Hand, Non-Executive Chairman
Singer Capital Markets (Sole Broker and Nominated Adviser)		Tel: [phone]
Peter Steel, Alex Bond (Corporate Finance)
Tom Salvesen (Corporate Broking)
Walbrook PR Limited	Tel: [phone] or [e-mail]
Paul McManus / Phillip Marriage Alice Woodings	Mob: [phone] [phone]

About Abingdon Health plc

Abingdon Health is a leading lateral flow contract development and manufacturing organisation ("CDMO") offering its services to an international customer base across industry sectors that include clinical, animal health, plant health, and environmental testing. Abingdon Health has the internal capabilities to take projects from initial concept through to routine and large-scale manufacturing; from "idea to commercial success."

The Company's CDMO division offers product development, regulatory support, technology transfer and manufacturing services for customers looking to develop new assays or transfer existing laboratory-based assays to a lateral flow format. Abingdon Health aims to support the increase in need for rapid results across many industries and locations and produces lateral flow tests in areas such as infectious disease, clinical testing including companion diagnostics, animal health and environmental testing. Faster access to results allows for rapid decision making, targeted intervention and can support better outcomes. 

Abingdon Health's Abingdon Simply Test range of self-tests is an ecommerce platform that offers a range of self-tests to empowers consumers to manage their own health and wellbeing. The Abingdon Simply Test ecommerce site offers consumers a range of information to support them in making informed decisions on the tests available. In addition, the site provides Abingdon's contract services customers with a potential route to market for self-tests. The Abingdon Simply Test range is also sold through international distributors and through other channels in the UK and Ireland such as pharmacy chains.

Founded in 2008, Abingdon Health is headquartered in York, England.

For more information visit:  www.abingdonhealth.com

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Dr Chris Hand
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Non-executive Chairman
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Abingdon Health plc
b)	LEI	213800XFI4WV3FBILO20
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument	Ordinary Shares of 0.025 pence each
	Identification code	GB00BLF79J41
b)	Nature of the transaction	Transfer of 3,000,000 Ordinary Shares to The CW Hand 2023 Settlement Trust
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)		Price	Volume
			N/A	3,000,000
d)	Aggregated information		n/a single transaction
e)	Date of the transaction	28 February 2023
f)	Place of the transaction	Off market

 

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