Award of Options

RNS Number : 2967C

Directa Plus PLC

17 June 2021

 

17 June 2021

Directa Plus plc

("Directa Plus" or the "Company")

Grant of Options

Directa Plus (AIM: DCTA), a leading producer and supplier of graphene nanoplatelets based products for use in consumer and industrial markets, announces that, on 15 June 2021, the Board approved the grant of performance-related options over a total of 150,000 ordinary shares of 0.25 pence each in the Company (the "Options") to Giorgio Bonfanti, Chief Financial Officer under the 2020 Employees' Share Scheme. 

Subject to the satisfaction of criteria related to the Company's share price performance over the period, the Options (or a portion thereof) will vest in three equal tranches on each of the first, second and third anniversaries of the date of award. 75 per cent. of the vested Options may be exercised after the third anniversary and the remaining 25 per cent. may be exercised after the fourth anniversary. The exercise price of each Option will be 118.20 pence, which is the average closing bid price of the Company's shares on the London Stock Exchange plc for the 30 days before the date of grant.

For further information please visit http://www.directa-plus.com/ or contact:

Directa Plus plc	[phone]
Giulio Cesareo, CEO Giorgio Bonfanti, CFO
Cenkos Securities plc (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)	[phone]
Neil McDonald Pete Lynch
N+1 Singer (Joint Broker)	[phone]
Rick Thompson Phil Davies
Tavistock (Financial PR and IR)	[phone]
Simon Hudson Heather Armstrong

About Directa Plus

Our focus is principally on the two sectors in which we have strong commercial advantage through developed and launched products and a technological lead: environmental (based on our Grafysorber® product), textiles (based on our G+® products) and, more recently, lithium-sulphur batteries.  In addition, we will continue to pursue opportunities in elastomers and composites (including tyres and asphalt), also using our G+® products.  All our products are hypoallergenic, non-toxic and sustainably produced.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Giorgio Bonfanti
2	Reason for 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	Directa Plus plc
b)	LEI	213800X2DQST3K5ND898
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	Grant of options under the Directa Plus plc 2020 Employees' Share Scheme
	Identification code	ISIN: GB00BSM98843
b)	Nature of the transaction	Award of Share Options
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price	Volume
		118.2p	150,000
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	N/A Single Transaction
e)	Date of the transaction	15 June 2021
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM

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