Grant of Options and Restricted Share Awards

Goldplat plc
28 May 2024
 

Goldplat plc / Ticker: GDP / Index: AIM / Sector: Mining & Exploration

 

28 May 2024

Goldplat plc


('Goldplat', the 'Group' or 'the Company')

   

Grant of Options and Restricted Share Awards to Directors

 

Goldplat plc, (AIM: GDP) the AIM listed Mining Services Group, with international gold recovery operations located in South Africa and Ghana, servicing the African and South American Mining Industry, is pleased to announce that it has granted options to Werner Klingenberg, Chief Executive Officer, to subscribe for 4 million new ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), to Brent Doster, Chief Financial Officer, to subscribe for 2 million new Ordinary Shares and to Douglas Davidson, Chief Operating Officer, to subscribe for 2 million new Ordinary Shares (together, the "Options").

 

The Options have an exercise price of 6.00 pence per share. The Options will vest as twenty-five percent on 30 June 2025, an equivalent twenty-five percent on 31 December 2025 and the balance of fifty percent on 30 June 2026. The exercise period of the Options is one year from the vesting date.

 

The total number of share options outstanding following the grant of the Options is 12,000,000, representing 7.15% of the issued share capital of the Company.

 

In addition to the above, Brent Doster and Douglas Davidson will each be awarded 200,000 restricted share awards, on 1 July 2024. The restricted share awards will vest at nil cost to the employee after 1 July 2025 if the individual is still employed by the company on that date.

 

Further details are set out in the PDMR forms below made in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 which is part of UK law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.

 

 

For further information visit www.goldplat.com, follow on twitter @GoldplatGDP or contact:

Werner Klingenberg

 

Goldplat plc

(CEO)

 

Tel: +27 (0) 82 051 1071

Colin Aaronson / Samantha Harrison / Ciara Donnelly

 

Grant Thornton UK LLP

(Nominated Adviser)

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7383 5100

 

James Bavister / Andrew de Andrade

 

WH Ireland Limited

(Broker)

 

Tel: +44 (0) 207 220 1666

 

Tim Thompson / Mark Edwards / Fergus Mellon

Flagstaff Strategic and Investor Communications

Tel: +44 (0) 207 129 1474

goldplat@flagstaffcomms.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notification of Transactions of Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility and Persons Closely Associated with them:

 

 

1.            

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a.            

Name

Werner Klingenberg

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

Goldplat plc

b.            

LEI

 213800WJG4PAPXBRG516

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 Identification code

Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each

ISIN: GB00B0HCWM45

b.            

Nature of the transaction

Grant of options to acquire Ordinary Shares at an exercise price of 6 pence per Ordinary Share.

 

c.            

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

0  pence

4,000,000

 

d.            

Aggregated information

·Aggregated volume

·Price

 

n/a: single transaction

e.            

Date of the transaction

28 May 2024

f.            

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

 

 

1.            

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a.            

Name

Brent Doster

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

Goldplat plc

b.            

LEI

 213800WJG4PAPXBRG516

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 Identification code

Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each

ISIN: GB00B0HCWM45

b.            

Nature of the transaction

Grant of options to acquire Ordinary Shares at an exercise price of 6 pence per Ordinary Share.

 

c.            

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

0 pence

2,000,000

 

d.            

Aggregated information

·Aggregated volume

·Price

 

n/a: single transaction

e.            

Date of the transaction

28 May 2024

f.            

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

 

 

1.            

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a.            

Name

Douglas Davidson

2.            

Reason for the notification

a.            

Position/status

Chief Operating Officer

b.            

Initial notification/Amendment

Initial Notification

3.            

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a.            

Name

Goldplat plc

b.            

LEI

 213800WJG4PAPXBRG516

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 Identification code

Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each

ISIN: GB00B0HCWM45

b.            

Nature of the transaction

Grant of options to acquire Ordinary Shares at an exercise price of 6 pence per Ordinary Share.

c.            

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

0 pence

2,000,000

 

d.            

Aggregated information

·Aggregated volume

·Price

 

n/a: single transaction

e.            

Date of the transaction

28 May 2024

f.            

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

 

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com or visit www.rns.com.

RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy.
 
END
 
 

Companies

Goldplat (GDP)
UK 100

Latest directors dealings