Grant of share options

RNS Number : 6614A

Brand Architekts Group PLC

30 September 2020

 

Brand Architekts Group plc

("Brand Architekts" or "the Company")

Grant of share options

Brand Architekts Group plc (the Company), has, pursuant to the rules of the Brand Architekts Group plc 2009 Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP"), granted options to certain of its directors to subscribe for up to 247,510 ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of the Company (the "Options") as follows:

Director		Number of new Options granted	Total Number of Options now held	% of issued share capital represented by Options now held
Quentin Higham (CEO)		145,228	145,228	0.8%
Tom Carter (CFO)		102,282	102,282	0.6%

All of the 247,510 new Options granted under the LTIP are linked to a share price target ranging from a threshold at £1.80 to the full award at a share price of £2.00. To the extent that this performance condition is met at the end of the three-year performance cycle, the Options can be exercised at nil cost. Upon vesting, the entire award will be made in shares.

The Company also announces that the Board has agreed to cancel certain of its existing options over 38,000 Ordinary Shares in the Company previously granted to certain of its employees in 2017 under the Company Share Option Scheme and granted new options over the same number of Ordinary Shares to certain of its employees at an exercise price of 120.5 pence per Ordinary Share (being the closing price prior to the date of the grant) and exercisable from 30^th September 2023. The company also granted new options over 51,000 Ordinary Shares in the Company to employees under the same scheme and conditions.

Following the grant of these Options the total number of ordinary shares subject to options and which could, in the future, be issued is 336,510.  This represents 1.95% of the current issued share capital of the Company which comprises 17,230,702 Ordinary Shares.

For further information, please contact:
Brand Architekts Group plc
Quentin Higham	Chief Executive Officer
Tom Carter	Chief Financial Officer
Shaun Dobson/ Jen Boorer	N+1 Singer	0207 496 3000
Josh Royston / Sam Modlin	Alma PR	0203 405 0205

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them:

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Quentin Higham
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Chief Executive Officer
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Brand Architekts Group PLC
b)	LEI	213800BSD8D9QEUKCE17
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 5 pence each
	Identification code	GB0008667304
b)	Nature of the transaction	Grant of options
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)
			Price(s)	Volume(s)
			Exercise price of nil per Option	145,228
d)	Aggregated information	N/A
	- Aggregated volume
	- Price
e)	Date of the transaction	30 September 2020
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them:

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Thomas Carter
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Chief Financial Officer
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Brand Architekts Group PLC
b)	LEI	213800BSD8D9QEUKCE17
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 5 pence each
	Identification code	GB0008667304
b)	Nature of the transaction	Grant of options
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)
			Price(s)	Volume(s)
			Exercise price of nil per Option	102,282
d)	Aggregated information	N/A
	- Aggregated volume
	- Price
e)	Date of the transaction	30 September 2020
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange

 

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