Directors Dealings & Grant of

RNS Number : 0951Y

Baydonhill PLC

16 December 2010

 



16 December 2010

Baydonhill plc

("Baydonhill" or the "Company")

Director's Dealing and Issue of Options

Baydonhill (AIM: BHL), one of the UK's leading foreign exchange specialists, announces that Sarah Collis, Finance Director, has today purchased a total of 1,000,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") from Ekwienox Limited ("Ekwienox"), equivalent to 2.03 per cent. of the Company's voting share capital, which represents her entire holding in the Company.  As a result, Ekwienox, now holds a total of 34,391,374 Ordinary Shares, equivalent to 69.82 per cent. of the Company's voting share capital.

The Company also announces that it has today granted an aggregate of 1,380,000 share options over Ordinary Shares ("Options").  Of these, 500,000 Options have been granted to Wayne Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, 150,000 Options have been granted to Sarah Collis, Finance Director of the Company and 730,000 Options have been granted to certain employees of the Company.

The Options have been issued with an exercise price of 18 pence per share and will vest on 30 September 2013, subject to the following conditions:

·      the Company maintaining a positive profit before tax in total over the period from the date of grant to the proposed vesting date; and

·      that existing loans to companies in the Ekwienox group are repaid in line with agreed repayment schedules, with repayments due on or before 30 September 2012.

Contacts:

Baydonhill plc
Eric Peacock, Chairman Wayne Mitchell, Chief Executive	[phone]
Merchant Securities Limited
Bidhi Bhoma / Simon Clements	[phone]
Square1 Consulting
David Bick / Mark Longson	[phone]

 

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