Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 5492N

Finsbury Food Group PLC

26 October 2016

 

Date:	26 October 2016
On behalf of:	Finsbury Food Group Plc ('Finsbury', 'the Company' or 'the Group')
For immediate release

Finsbury Food Group Plc

Transfer of Shares

Finsbury Food Group Plc (AIM: FIF), a leading UK specialty bakery and manufacturer of cake, bread and morning goods for both the retail and foodservice channels, announces that, on 26 October 2016, John Duffy, Chief Executive Officer, and Stephen Boyd, Group Finance Director, received ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") pursuant to the Company's annual bonus arrangements in relation to the financial year ended 2 July 2016. Mr Duffy received 71,639 Ordinary Shares and Mr Boyd received 50,421 Ordinary Shares. Each of Mr Duffy and Mr Boyd has requested that the Ordinary Shares be transferred to his wife at nil cost.

As a result, the interests of Mr Duffy and Mr Boyd in the Ordinary Shares of the Company remain unchanged. Following receipt of the shares, Mrs Alice Duffy, the wife of Mr Duffy, has an interest in 2,258,457 Ordinary Shares representing approximately 1.73 per cent. of the Company's total issued share capital and Mrs Nicola Boyd, the wife of Mr Boyd, has an interest in 1,011,455 Ordinary Shares representing approximately 0.78 per cent. of the Company's total issued share capital.

The Ordinary Shares were transferred from the trustee of the Finsbury Food Group Plc Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT"). Following the transaction, the trustee of the EBT is interested in 3,360,030 Ordinary Shares, representing 2.58 per cent. of the Company's total issued share capital.

The EBT is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of the Company and its subsidiaries. The Executive Directors of the Company are included in the class of potential beneficiaries of the EBT and are deemed to be interested in those shares and the dealings thereof.

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For further information:
Finsbury Food Group Plc	www.finsburyfoods.co.uk
John Duffy (Chief Executive Officer)	029 20 357 500
Stephen Boyd (Group Finance Director)
Cenkos Securities plc
Bobbie Hilliam (Corporate Finance)
Alex Aylen (Sales)
Redleaf Communications	[e-mail]
Rebecca Sanders-Hewett	020 7382 4730
Sarah Fabietti-Dallison
Sam Modlin

Notes to Editors:

§ Finsbury Food Group Plc (AIM: FIF) is a leading UK manufacturer of cake and bread bakery goods, supplying a broad range of blue chip customers within both the grocery retail and 'out of home eating' foodservice sectors including major multiples and leading foodservice providers.

§ Following the acquisition of the Fletchers Group of bakeries, the Company is one of the largest speciality bakery groups in the UK with annualised sales in 2016 exceeding £300 million.

§ The Company's bakery product range is comprehensive and includes:

-     Large premium and celebration cakes.

-     Small snacking cake formats such as cake slices and bites.

-     Artisan, healthy lifestyle and organic breads through to rolls, muffins (sweet and savoury) and morning pastries, all of which are available both fresh and frozen dependent on customer channel requirements.

§ The Company is now the second largest manufacturer of ambient packaged cake (excluding In Store Bakery (ISB)) in the UK, a market valued at over £950 million (Source Symphony IRI 52 w/e 13 August 2016). The annual retail bread and morning goods market has a value in excess of £4.0 billion (source Kantar Worldpanel 52 weeks to 19 June 2016). The UK foodservice bread and morning goods bakery sector is worth approximately £800 million per annum, 70% of which is in morning goods. The UK foodservice cake and sweet treat bakery sector is worth approximately £600 million per annum.

§ The Company comprises a UK Bakery division and an Overseas division:

-     UK Bakery has manufacturing sites in Cardiff, East Kilbride, Hamilton, Twechar, Salisbury, Sheffield, London and Manchester.

-     The overseas sector comprises the Company's 50% owned entity, Lightbody Stretz Ltd, that supplies and distributes the Group's UK manufactured products and third party products primarily to Europe.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	John Duffy
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 participation, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	Finsbury Food Group Plc
b)	LEI:
4.	Details of 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: Identification code:	Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each ISIN: GB0009186429
b)	Nature of the transaction:	The shares were awarded to John Duffy in partial settlement of his 2016 bonus and transferred direct from the Finsbury Food Group Plc Employee Benefit Trust to his wife and PCA, Alice Duffy, at John Duffy's request and with the consent of Alice Duffy.
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s)	Volume(s)
		Nil-cost	71,639
d)	Aggregated volume: Price:	na
e)	Date of the Transaction:	26 October 2016
f)	Place of the Transaction:	Outside a trading venue

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Stephen Boyd
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/Status:	Group Finance Director
b)	Initial Notification/Amendment:	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participation, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	Finsbury Food Group Plc
b)	LEI:
4.	Details of 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: Identification code:	Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each ISIN: GB0009186429
b)	Nature of the transaction:	The shares were awarded to Stephen Boyd in partial settlement of his 2016 bonus and transferred direct from the Finsbury Food Group Plc Employee Benefit Trust to his wife and PCA, Nicola Boyd, at Stephen Boyd's request and with the consent of Nicola Boyd.
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s)	Volume(s)
		Nil-cost	50,421
d)	Aggregated volume: Price:	na
e)	Date of the Transaction:	26 October 2016
f)	Place of the Transaction:	Outside a trading venue

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Alice Duffy
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/Status:	Person Closely Associated to John Duffy, Chief Executive Officer and PDMR
b)	Initial Notification/Amendment:	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participation, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	Finsbury Food Group Plc
b)	LEI:
4.	Details of 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: Identification code:	Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each ISIN: GB0009186429
b)	Nature of the transaction:	The shares were awarded to John Duffy in partial settlement of his 2016 bonus and transferred direct from the Finsbury Food Group Plc Employee Benefit Trust to his wife and PCA, Alice Duffy, at John Duffy's request and with the consent of Alice Duffy.
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s)	Volume(s)
		Nil-cost	71,639
d)	Aggregated volume: Price:	na
e)	Date of the Transaction:	26 October 2016
f)	Place of the Transaction:	Outside a trading venue

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Nicola Boyd
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/Status:	Person Closely Associated to Stephen Boyd, Group Finance Director and PDMR
b)	Initial Notification/Amendment:	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participation, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	Finsbury Food Group Plc
b)	LEI:
4.	Details of 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: Identification code:	Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each ISIN: GB0009186429
b)	Nature of the transaction:	The shares were awarded to Stephen Boyd in partial settlement of his 2016 bonus and transferred direct from the Finsbury Food Group Plc Employee Benefit Trust to his wife and PCA, Nicola Boyd, at Stephen Boyd's request and with the consent of Nicola Boyd.
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s)	Volume(s)
		Nil-cost	50,421
d)	Aggregated volume: Price:	na
e)	Date of the Transaction:	26 October 2016
f)	Place of the Transaction:	Outside a trading venue

 

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