Purchase of shares by EBT

RNS Number : 9898N

Good Energy Group PLC

22 May 2015

 

22 May 2015

Good Energy Group PLC

("Good Energy " or "the Company")

Purchase of shares by EBT

Good Energy announces the following dealing:

Employee Benefit Trust Dealings

The Company was notified today by Clarke Willmott, acting as Trustee to the Good Energy Group Employee Benefits Trust (the "EBT"), that, on 20 May 2015, the EBT purchased 105,000 ordinary shares of 5p each ("Ordinary Share") at 219p per Ordinary Share from John Ernest Sellers.

Following the transaction, the EBT holds 521,989 Ordinary Shares, representing 3.49 per cent of the Company's total issued share capital.

The EBT is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of the Company who have been granted share options. 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, please contact:

Good Energy Group PLC	01249 766795
Juliet Davenport, Chief Executive
Denise Cockrem, Chief Financial Officer
Arden Partners plc (Nomad & Broker)	012 1423 8900
Steve Douglas
Michael McNeilly
Camarco (Financial PR Adviser)	020 3757 4980
Geoffrey Pelham-Lane, Billy Clegg, Georgia Mann
Good Energy Press Office	01249 765540
Gill Dickinson

 Notes to editors

- Good Energy is a fast-growing 100% renewable electricity supply company, offering value for money and award-winning customer service. 

- An AIM-listed PLC, and founder member of the Social Stock Exchange, its mission is to support change in the energy market, address climate change and boost energy security.

- Good Energy matches over the course of a year all the electricity its customers use with power from renewable sources.

- The company has consistently performed well in the annual Which? energy company customer satisfaction survey, winning first or second place in each of the last four years. Good Energy's dual fuel tariff is cheaper on average than the standard tariffs sold by the 'Big 6' before discounts. 

- It now has more than 51,500 renewable electricity customers and 25,000 gas customers. It works with a community of 76,000 small and medium scale renewable electricity generators (All figures as at 31 Dec 2014).

- Good Energy is the owner of Delabole Wind Farm, the UK's first commercial wind farm, and also owns and operates Hampole Wind Farm, near Doncaster. The company also owns and operates four solar farms.

 

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