Grant of options

RNS Number : 8396H

Haydale Graphene Industries PLC

19 March 2015

 

19 March 2015

Haydale Graphene Industries plc

(the "Company")

Grant of options

Haydale (AIM: HAYD), the Group focused on the commercialisation of graphene and other nano particle products using their proprietary plasma process announces that on 18 March 2015, the Board of the Company awarded options ("Options") over an aggregate of 81,032 ordinary shares of 2p each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") pursuant to the Company's approved and unapproved share option schemes adopted by the Board on 4 April 2014. 

All of the Options granted have an exercise price of 134.5p per Ordinary Share (being the closing mid-market price of the Company's Ordinary Shares on 17 March 2015, the day before the grant) with the latest exercise date being 18 March 2025.  Following the grant of these Options, the Company's total number of options outstanding as at the date of this announcement is 889,126.

Of the Options granted, 33,307 were granted to the Company's executive directors following the agreement of the terms of the Options by the remuneration committee of the Board as follows:

Name	Number of approved options granted	Number of unapproved options granted	Total number of options held	Total beneficial holding of Ordinary Shares	Shareholding %
Ray Gibbs (CEO)	-	14,275	228,973	443,054	3.87
Dr Chris Spacie (CTO)	11,895	-	156,318	35,463	0.31
Matt Wood (FD)	-	7,137	56,274	3,571	0.03

The number of ordinary shares currently in issue is 11,446,446 and it is this number that has been used to calculate the above shareholdings.

For further information, please contact:

Haydale Graphene Industries plc	[phone]
John Knowles, Chairman Ray Gibbs, Chief Executive Officer
Cairn Financial Advisers LLP (Nomad)	[phone]
Tony Rawlinson
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe (Broker)	[phone]
David Foreman David Banks
Hermes Financial PR
Trevor Phillips Chris Steele	[phone] [phone]

 

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