16 August 2022
The Ince Group plc
("Ince", the "Company" or the "Group")
Director and substantial shareholdings and
total voting rights
The Ince Group plc (AIM: INCE), which provides legal, accounting, financial services, consulting and pensions advice services, has been informed that with the issue of 150,030,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company pursuant to the placing announced on 28 July 2022 ("Placing Shares") and their admission to trading on AIM today, certain directors of the Company have now acquired Placing Shares in the Company as announced on 28 July 2022 and as set out in the table below (along with their new total shareholding in the Company):
Name |
Job title in the Group |
Number of Placing Shares |
Number of Ordinary Shares now held |
Percentage of share capital now held |
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|
|
|
|
Simon Howard |
Non-Executive Chairperson of the Company |
100,000 |
163,931 |
0.07% |
|
|
|
|
|
Donald Brown |
Group CEO |
19,480,000 |
20,687,504 |
8.73% |
|
|
|
|
|
The FCA notification in relation to the above and made in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation is appended further below.
In addition, as a result of the issue of the Placing Shares, the Company is aware of the following revised interests of Significant Shareholders (as defined in the AIM Rules for Companies) in the Company:
Shareholder |
Number of Ordinary Shares held |
Percentage of share capital now held |
Adrian Biles |
7,610,664 |
3.21% |
Adrian Biles and John Biles (held jointly) |
3,333,333 |
1.41% |
John Biles |
1,537,970 |
0.65% |
Total Voting Rights
With the issue of the 150,030,000 Placing Shares, as at today's date, the total number of ordinary shares of 1 penny each in issue and voting rights in the Company is 237,038,739. This figure of 237,038,739 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company pursuant to the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
For further information:
The Ince Group plc |
|
Donald Brown, Group Chief Executive |
|
Simon Oakes, Chief Financial Officer |
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|
|
Allenby Capital Limited - Nominated Adviser |
+44 (0) 20 3328 5656 |
Jeremy Porter / Piers Shimwell, Corporate Finance |
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|
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Arden Partners plc - Broker |
+44 (0) 20 7614 5900 |
John Llewellyn Lloyd / Louisa Waddell, Corporate Finance |
|
Simon Johnson, Equity Sales |
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|
|
Williams Nicolson - Financial PR |
+44 (0) 7961 027 281 |
Steffan Williams / Fraser Schurer-Lewis |
ince@williamsnicolson.com |
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 |
Simon Howard |
2. |
Reason for the Notification |
|
a) |
Position/status |
Chairperson |
b) |
Initial notification/Amendment |
Initial Notification |
3. |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
|
a) |
Name |
The Ince Group plc |
b) |
LEI |
2138005A5XOTI2MHP510 |
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 |
Ordinary Shares of 1p each
|
Identification code |
ISIN: GB00BZBY3Y09 |
|
b) |
Nature of the transaction |
Subscription of Ordinary Shares via a placing |
c) |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
Price: 5p Volume: 100,000 ordinary shares |
d) |
Aggregated information: -Aggregated volume
-Price |
As above |
e) |
Date of the transaction |
16 August 2022 |
f) |
Place of the transaction |
Outside a trading venue |
1. |
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated |
|
a) |
Name |
Donald Brown |
2. |
Reason for the Notification |
|
a) |
Position/status |
Group CEO |
b) |
Initial notification/Amendment |
Initial Notification |
3. |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
|
a) |
Name |
The Ince Group plc |
b) |
LEI |
2138005A5XOTI2MHP510 |
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 |
Ordinary Shares of 1p each
|
Identification code |
ISIN: GB00BZBY3Y09 |
|
b) |
Nature of the transaction |
Subscription of Ordinary Shares via a placing |
c) |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
Price: 5p Volume: 19,480,000 ordinary shares |
d) |
Aggregated information: -Aggregated volume
-Price |
As above |
e) |
Date of the transaction |
16 August 2022 |
f) |
Place of the transaction |
Outside a trading venue |