27 June 2024
Ascential plc ("the Company")
Notification of transactions of persons discharging managerial responsibility
Grant of Awards under the Company's Share Incentive Plan
On 27 June 2024 the Company's Executive Directors were granted an award of free shares under the Ascential plc Share Incentive Plan (the "SIP") as noted below:
Executive Director |
Number of free shares awarded under the SIP |
Philip Thomas |
300 |
Mandy Gradden |
300 |
The SIP is an all-employee share plan and the 2024 free share award of 300 ordinary shares is granted to all eligible employees including the Executive Directors. These awards are in-line with the Remuneration Policy approved in 2023 and will be disclosed in next year's Directors' Remuneration Report. The details of these PDMR transactions are set out below.
1
|
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
a)
|
Names
|
Philip Thomas Mandy Gradden |
||||||||||||||
2
|
Reason for the notification
|
|||||||||||||||
a)
|
Position/status
|
Director |
||||||||||||||
b)
|
Initial notification /Amendment
|
Initial notification |
||||||||||||||
3
|
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
|
|||||||||||||||
a)
|
Name
|
Ascential plc |
||||||||||||||
b)
|
LEI
|
213800VDXQDA7KD2IQ21 |
||||||||||||||
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 1.7p
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
Identification code |
BQFH632 |
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
b)
|
Nature of the transaction
|
Grant of free share awards under the Company's Share Incentive Plan ("SIP") |
||||||||||||||
c)
|
Price(s) and volume(s) |
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
d)
|
Aggregated information |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
- Aggregated volume |
n/a - single transaction |
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
- Price |
Nil |
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
e)
|
Date of the transaction
|
27 June 2024 |
||||||||||||||
f)
|
Place of the transaction
|
London |
Contacts
Naomi Howden, Company Secretary
+44 (0)203 657 8950