Exercise of Options, Director Shareholding & TVR

MS International PLC

01 July 2024

 

1 July 2024

MS INTERNATIONAL plc

(the "Company")

Exercise of Options,

Total Voting Rights, and

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Exercise of Options

MS International plc announces certain employees have exercised in aggregate 65,002 options over ordinary shares of 10p each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at an exercise price of £1.41 each. The exercise of options is today being satisfied from existing Ordinary Shares which were held by the Company in treasury. 

Total Voting Rights

Following this exercise of options, the Company's issued share capital will be 17,841,073. The Company holds 1,451,325 shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 16,389,748.

The above figure of 16,389,748 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 FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Director/PDMR Shareholding

As part of the exercise described above, Mr Michael Bell, Executive Chairman of the Company, has exercised 6,667 options over Ordinary Shares.  Accordingly, Mr Bell's beneficial interest in Ordinary Shares has increased by 6,667 and now comprises 2,889,068 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 17.63% of the Company's issued share capital (excluding shares held in treasury).

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the UK 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	Mr Michael Bell
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Executive Chairman
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	MS INTERNATIONAL plc
b)	LEI	213800Q34ZAXQ582YL41
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 Identification code	Employee share options with an exercise price of £1.41 each ISIN: GB0005957005
b)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of employee share options
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) £1.41 6,667
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	Aggregated volume: N/A Aggregated price: N/A
e)	Date of the transaction	1 July 2024
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM Market (XLON)

For further information please contact:

MS INTERNATIONAL plc                                                                             Tel: [phone]

Michael Bell

Shore Capital

Nomad and Broker                                                                                                         Tel: [phone]
Patrick Castle/Daniel Bush/Lucy Bowden

 

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