Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 1331J

M. P. Evans Group PLC

25 April 2022

 

M.P. EVANS GROUP PLC

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE EU MARKET ABUSE REGULATION OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

M.P. Evans Group Plc

(the "Company" or "M.P. Evans")

PDMR transaction

and

Total Voting Rights

PDMR transaction

The Company has been notified of the exercise of share options under the M.P. Evans Group PLC 2012 Unapproved Executive Share Option Plan by K.Chandra Sekaran, a director of the Company. K.Chandra Sekaran exercised his share options over 30,000 shares of 10p each in the capital of the Company ("Shares") granted at 483.21 per Share and due to expire on 19 June 2022.

Admission of the 30,000 new Shares has been satisfied via the block listing for the 2012 Executive Share Option Scheme (unapproved).

Simultaneously, K. Chandra Sekaran sold 14,000 Shares at 1061 pence per Share in order to fund the cost of exercise of the share options.

Total Voting Rights

Following the above transactions the Company has 54,726,253 Shares in issue.  All of the Shares have equal voting rights and there are no Shares held in Treasury.

The above figure of 54,726,253 represents the total voting rights in the Company and   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 Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	K. Chandra Sekaran
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Executive director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	M.P.Evans Group PLC
b)	LEI	2138003IBXJUCR4SZG26
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	Shares of 10 pence per share in M.P.Evans Group PLC ("Shares"). Identification code: ISIN GB007538100
b)	Nature of the transaction	(i) Exercise of options over Shares (ii) Sale of Shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	(i) Exercise of share options over Shares: Price(s)  483.21 Volume(s)  30,000 (ii) Sale of Shares: Price(s)  1061p Volume(s)  14,000
d)	Aggregated information	N/A
e)	Date of transaction	22 April 2022
f)	Place of transaction	(i)Outside trading venue (ii)London Stock Exchange (XLON);AIM

25 April 2022

Enquiries:

M.P. Evans Group PLC	Telephone: [phone]
Peter Hadsley-Chaplin - chairman
Matthew Coulson - chief executive
Peel Hunt LLP (Nomad and joint broker)	Telephone: [phone]
Dan Webster
Andrew Clark
Lalit Bose
finnCap (Joint broker)	Telephone: [phone]
Tim Redfern
Harriet Ward
Hudson Sandler (Financial PR)	Telephone:  [phone]
Charlie Jack
Elfie Kent

 

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