Directors' Shareholdings

RNS Number : 8102R

Anite PLC

31 October 2013

 



31 October 2013

ANITE PLC

Directors' Shareholdings

Purchase of shares

Anite plc ("Anite") was notified on 30 October 2013 that the following purchases of Anite ordinary shares of 11.25p each were made in London on 30 October 2013:

Name of director	Number of Anite shares acquired	Percentage of issued share capital acquired	Price per share	Beneficial interest in shares following this notification	Percentage of issued share capital
Clay Brendish (Chairman)	28,250	Less than 0.1%	91.00p	319,472	Less than 0.2%
Paul Taylor (Non-executive Director)	27,250	Less than 0.1%	91.00p	27,250	Less than 0.1%
Patrick De Smedt (Non-executive Director)	19,969	Less than 0.1%	89.62p	19,969	Less than 0.1%
Nigel Clifford (Non-executive Director)	11,166	Less than 0.1%	89.55p	41,166	Less than 0.1%
David Hurst-Brown (Non-executive Director)	50,000	Less than 0.1%	89.50p	230,000	Less than 0.1%

All of the above interests are beneficial interests of the respective persons.

The disclosure made in respect of each person is as a result of notifications made in accordance with both DTR 3.1.2R of the Disclosure Rules and of the Companies Act 2006.

Note: The purchases have been registered with the following registered shareholders:

Clay Brendish	28,250 Shares	Bank of New York (OCS) Nominees Limited a/c 435261
Paul Taylor	27,250 Shares	Mrs T Taylor
Patrick De Smedt	19,969 Shares	HSBC Client Holdings
Nigel Clifford	11,166 Shares	Mrs J Clifford
David Hurst-Brown	50,000 Shares	25,000 - Rensburg Client Nominees Limited - designation SIPP ( Mr D Hurst-Brown) 25000 - Rensburg Client Nominees Limited - designation ISA ( Mrs J Hurst-Brown)

Exercise of Share Options

In accordance with DTR 3.1.4R, Anite plc ("Anite") also announces that on 30 October 2013, Christopher Humphrey, its Chief Executive, exercised 149,912 executive share options at a price of 56.5p per option. The options relate to Anite ordinary shares of 11.25p each.  He funded the cost of the options and the tax and national insurance due on exercise (based on the closing mid-market price of 90.0p on 30 October 2013).

These options were granted to Mr Humphrey and various other employees in 2004 as part of the Group's long term incentive plans.  The options vested in 2007 and expire on their tenth anniversary in January 2014. 

Following this transaction, Mr Humphrey's shareholding in Anite will increase by 149,912 shares to 1,799,126 shares (0.599%).  In addition, Mr Humphrey holds a total of 7,781,502 executive share options of which 5,754,378 have vested but not yet been exercised.

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For further information, please contact:	www.anite.com
Anite plc	01252 775200
Richard Amos, Company Secretary
MHP Communications	020 3128 8100
Reg Hoare

 

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