Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 0186H

Hotel Chocolat Group PLC

01 December 2020

 

1 December 2020

HOTEL CHOCOLAT GROUP PLC

("Hotel Chocolat", the "Company" or the "Group")

PDMR Dealing

The Company announces that on 30 November 2020 Chief Operating Officer, Matt Margereson, a PDMR of the Company, sold 25,690 ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 395 pence per Ordinary Share. Mr Margereson's interest is now in 227,875 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.18% of the Company's issued share capital.

	Previous Holding				Resultant Holding
PDMR	Number of Ordinary Shares	Percentage of issued share capital	Ordinary Shares sold	Price of Ordinary Shares sold	Number of Ordinary Shares	Percentage of issued share capital
Matthew Margereson	253,565	0.20%	25,690	395p	227,875	0.18%

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	MATTHEW PAUL MARGERESON
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	HOTEL CHOCOLAT GROUP PLC
b)	LEI	213800B4D3J15PZHVY29
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	HOTEL CHOCOLAT GROUP PLC ORDINARY SHARES OF 0.1P EACH
	Identification code	ISIN: GB00BY23CB04
b)	Nature of the transaction	SALE OF ORDINARY SHARES
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)
				Price(s)	Volume(s)
				£3.95	25,690
d)	Aggregated information
	- Aggregated volume	n/a single transaction
	- Price
e)	Date of the transaction	30 November 2020
f)	Place of the transaction	LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AIM

For further information:

Hotel Chocolat Group plc	c/o Citigate	+ 44 (0) 20 7638 9571
Angus Thirlwell, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Peter Harris, Co-founder and Development Director
Matt Pritchard, Chief Financial Officer
Liberum Capital Limited - Nominated Advisor and Broker		+ 44 (0) 20 3100 2222
Clayton Bush
James Greenwood
Citigate Dewe Rogerson - Financial PR		+ 44 (0) 20 7638 9571
Angharad Couch
Ellen Wilton
Kieran Farthing

Notes to Editors:

Hotel Chocolat is a premium British chocolatier with a strong and distinctive brand. The business was founded in 1993 by Angus Thirlwell and Peter Harris and has traded under the Hotel Chocolat brand since 2003. The Group sells its products online and through a network of 130 locations in the UK and abroad. The Group has one restaurant in the UK and a cocoa estate and hotel in Saint Lucia. The Group was admitted to trading on AIM in 2016.  

 

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