Employee Share Options, Issue of Equity and TVR

RNS Number : 5242C

Creightons PLC

01 October 2018

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                                             1 October 2018

CREIGHTONS PLC ("Creightons" or "the Company")

Exercise of Employee Share Options, Issue of Equity, and Total Voting Rights

The Company is pleased to announce that further to the exercise of options at 4.50p per share by members of the employee's share option scheme, a total of 710,000 new ordinary shares of 1p each ("the Option Shares") have been issued for a total of £31,950.00.

Application will be made for the Option Shares, which will rank pari passu with the Company's existing ordinary shares, to be admitted to listing on the premium listing segment of the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities ("Admission").    Admission is expected on or around 5 October 2018.

On Admission, the Company will have 62,357,365 ordinary shares in issue with voting rights. Creightons does not currently hold any shares in treasury. Accordingly, this figure of 62,357,365 ordinary shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation No. 596/2014 on market abuse.  Upon the publication of this announcement via a Regulatory Information Service, this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

Enquiries - Analysts and Investors

Nicholas O'Shea, Director, Creightons Plc                                                         01733 281000

Roland Cornish / Felicity Geidt, Beaumont Cornish Limited                          0207 628 3396

 

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