Exercise of Options & Total Voting Rights

RNS Number : 8677W

Byotrol PLC

28 April 2021

 

Byotrol Plc

("Byotrol" or the "Group")

Exercise of Options and Total Voting Rights

Byotrol plc (AIM: BYOT), the anti-microbial technology company, announces that it has allotted a total of 6,765,000 new ordinary shares of 0.25 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") following the exercise of 6,540,000 options by certain Directors and 225,000 by certain employees below Board level.  Of these, 5,965,000 options were reaching maturity and were due to expire in the current calendar year.

All 6,540,000 of the Ordinary Shares issued to the Directors below were subsequently sold at a price of 6.92p. The details of those exercised and sold by such Directors is below:

Director	Total number of share options exercised	Number of Ordinary Shares sold	Resultant Shareholding	Percentage of the Company's issued share capital held	Remaining number of options held
David Traynor	2,360,000	2,360,000	9,691,142	2.14	2,710,000
Nic Hellyer	800,000	800,000	629,870	0.14	1,200,000
John Langlands	2,700,000	2,700,000	9,000,000	1.99	Nil
Dr Trevor Francis	680,000	680,000	4,470,214	0.99	4,730,000

Application has been made for the 6,765,000 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") and it is expected that Admission will become effective and trading will commence at 8.00 a.m. on 5 May 2021.

After Admission, the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue will be 453,295,405 and the total number of voting rights will therefore be 453,295,405. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information contact:

Byotrol Plc
David Traynor, Chief Executive	[phone]
Nic Hellyer, Chief Financial Officer
finnCap Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)	[phone]
Geoff Nash/Kate Bannatyne - Corporate Finance
Richard Chambers - ECM
Flagstaff Strategic and Investor Communications	[phone]
Tim Thompson/Andrea Seymour/Fergus Mellon	[e-mail]

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	David Traynor
2.	Reason for the Notification.
a)	Position/status	CEO
b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Byotrol plc
b)	LEI	213800AJMTSTIPA59A34
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	Options over Ordinary Shares Ordinary Shares
	Identification code	GB00B0999995
b)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of Options Sale of Ordinary shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Exercise Price Volume(s) 3.50p 360,000 4.125p 2,000,000 Sale Price(s) Volume(s) 6.92 p 2,000,000 6.92p 360,000
d)	Aggregated information: · Aggregated volume · Price	As above
e)	Date of the transaction	27 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM Market (XLON)

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Nic Hellyer
2.	Reason for the Notification.
a)	Position/status	CFO
b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Byotrol plc
b)	LEI	213800AJMTSTIPA59A34
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	Options over Ordinary Shares Ordinary Shares
	Identification code	GB00B0999995
b)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of Options Sale of Ordinary shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Exercise Price Volume(s) 2.60 p 800,000 Sale Price(s) Volume(s) 6.92 p 800,000
d)	Aggregated information: · Aggregated volume · Price	As above
e)	Date of the transaction	27 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM Market (XLON)

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	John Langlands
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	B yotrol plc
b)	LEI	213800AJMTSTIPA59A34
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	Options over Ordinary Shares Ordinary Shares
	Identification code	GB00B0999995
b)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of Options Sale of Ordinary shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Exercise Price Volume(s) 4.125 p 2,700,000 Sale Price(s) Volume(s) 6.92 p 2,700,000
d)	Aggregated information: · Aggregated volume · Price	As above
e)	Date of the transaction	27 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM Market (XLON)

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Dr Trevor Francis
2.	Reason for the Notification.
a)	Position/status	Chief Technology Officer
b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Byotrol plc
b)	LEI	213800AJMTSTIPA59A34
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	Options over Ordinary Shares Ordinary Shares
	Identification code	GB00B0999995
b)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of Options Sale of Ordinary shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Exercise Price Volume(s) 3.50 p 180,000 4.125p 500,000 Sale Price(s) Volume(s) 6.92 p 180,000 6.92p 500,000
d)	Aggregated information: · Aggregated volume · Price	As above
e)	Date of the transaction	27 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM Market (XLON)

Notes to editors

Byotrol plc (BYOT.L), quoted on AIM, is a specialist infection prevention and control company, operating globally in the Healthcare, Industrial, Food and Consumer sectors, providing low toxicity products with a broad-based and targeted efficacy across all microbial classes; bacteria, viruses (including coronavirus), fungi, moulds, mycobacteria and algae.

Byotrol's products can be used stand-alone or as ingredients within existing products, where they can significantly improve their performance, especially in personal hygiene, domestic and industrial disinfection, odour control, food production and food management.

Byotrol develops and commercialises technologies that create easier, safer and cleaner lives for everyone.

For more information, please go to byotrol.co.uk

 

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