Prime People plc
("Prime People" or the "Company")
Directors Dealing, Exercise of Options and Transaction in Own Shares
14 September 2011
Further to the announcement of 13 September, Prime People confirms that on 14 September it issued 125,000 ordinary shares of 10p each in the company to Chris Heayberd, Finance Director. The Company has also transferred 56,734 ordinary shares of 10p from its treasury account to satisfy 184,234 employee share options exercised by Mr Heayberd on 14 September under the terms of the Company's Enterprise Management Incentive Share Option Scheme.
Prime People further announces that it has purchased these 56,734 ordinary shares of 10p in the company from Chris Heayberd at a price of 68 pence per share. These shares are to be held in treasury.
Mr Heayberd has also informed the company that he has today transferred 125,000 ordinary Shares for nil consideration to his spouse. There has been no change of beneficial ownership of the ordinary shares and Chris Heayberd's interest is unchanged following this transfer and stands at 324,000 ordinary Shares which represents approximately 2.7% of the Company's current issued share capital.
Following the transfer of shares out of treasury and share buyback the Company's issued ordinary share capital consists of 12,066,500 ordinary shares of which a total of 77,000 ordinary shares are held in treasury. Therefore the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights in Prime People is 11,989,500 ordinary shares.
The above figure of 11,989,500 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 FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Prime People 020 73181785
Chris Heayberd, Finance Director
Cenkos Securities plc 020 7397 8900
Elizabeth Bowman