Director/PDMR Shareholding

M. P. Evans Group PLC

05 November 2024

 

M.P. Evans Group Plc

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

Director/PDMR Shareholding

The Company has been notified of the exercise of share options on 1 November 2024 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 20,000 shares of 10p each in the capital of the Company ("Shares") granted at 412.50 per Share that were due to expire on 27 April 2025.

Following the above transactions, K. Chandra Sekaran is now beneficially interested in 168,181 Shares (0.32%).

Admission of the 20,000 new Shares has been satisfied via the block listing for the 2012 Executive Share Option Scheme (unapproved). As all of the options under the 2012 Executive Share Option Scheme (unapproved) have now been exercised or have lapsed, the block listing associated has been cancelled. A final block listing return is set out below:

Name of applicant:		M.P. Evans Group PLC
Name of scheme:		2012 Executive Share Option Schemes (approved and unapproved)
Period of return:	From:	1 July 2024	To:	1 November 2024
Balance of unallotted securities under scheme(s) from previous return:		20,000
Plus:  The amount by which the block scheme(s) has been increased since the date of the last return (if any increase has been applied for):		Nil
Less:  Number of securities issued/allotted under scheme(s) during period (see LR3.5.7G):		20,000
Equals:  Balance under scheme(s) not yet issued/allotted at end of period:		Nil
Number and class of securities originally admitted and the date of admission		80,000 shares of 10p each - 02-07-2015 70,000 shares of 10p each -  08-11-2017 45,000 shares of 10p each - 10-06-2019
Name of contact:		Katya Merrick
Telephone number of contact:		01892 676 146

Total Voting Rights

Following the above transactions the Company has 52,806,292 Shares in issue. All of the Shares have equal voting rights and there are no Shares held in Treasury.

The above figure of 52,806,292 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	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
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	(i) Exercise of share options over Shares: Price(s)             412.50 Volume(s)         20,000
d)	Aggregated information	N/A
e)	Date of transaction	(i)1 November 2024
f)	Place of transaction	(i)Outside trading venue

5 November 2024

Enquiries:

M.P. Evans Group PLC	Tel: [phone]
Peter Hadsley-Chaplin - Chairman
Matthew Coulson - Chief executive
Luke Shaw - Chief financial officer
Cavendish Capital Markets Limited (Nomad and broker)	Tel: [phone]
Matt Goode, George Lawson, Rory Sale - Corporate finance Tim Redfern, Harriet Ward - Equity capital markets
Hudson Sandler (Financial PR)	Tel:  [phone]
Charlie Jack, Francis Kerrigan, Francesca Rosser

 

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