Exercise of SAYE Options

Niox Group PLC

27 March 2024

 

NIOX Group plc

Exercise of SAYE Options

27 March 2024

NIOX Group plc (the "Company") (AIM: NIOX) today announces that on 27 March 2024 options over a total of 336,937 ordinary shares of 0.08p in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") were exercised under the terms of the NIOX Group plc Save As You Earn Scheme 2020 - UK ("SAYE"). The total includes 245,343 options exercised by the following directors:

	Number of SAYE options exercised	Exercise price per Ordinary Share (pence)	Amount paid (£)
Ian Johnson	81,781	22.01	18,000
Jonathan Emms	81,781	22.01	18,000
Michael Roller	81,781	22.01	18,000
	245,343		54,000

The new Ordinary Shares issued in connection with the exercise of options under the SAYE are subject to an existing block admission and rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares.

Voting rights

Following these transactions, Ian Johnson holds 791,601 Ordinary Shares, Jonathan Emms holds 791,867 Ordinary Shares and Michael Roller holds 581,903 Ordinary Shares. This equates to 0.19%, 0.19% and 0.14% of the total voting rights of the Company respectively.

Following the issue of the 336,937 Ordinary shares under the SAYE scheme and the issue of an additional 289,136 Ordinary shares granted under the PSP scheme earlier this month the Company's issued share capital now consists of 422,746,703 Ordinary Shares, each carrying one voting right. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 422,746,703. This number 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 and Transparency Rules.

Additional disclosure in relation to PDMR dealing is included at the end of this announcement.

For further information, please contact:
NIOX Group plc Ian Johnson, Executive Chairman Michael Roller, Chief Financial Officer Sarah Duncan, Company Secretary	[phone]
Singer Capital Markets (Nominated Adviser & Broker) Aubrey Powell / Jen Boorer / James Todd	[phone]
Investec Bank plc Edward Knight / Bruce Garrow / Lydia Zychowska	[phone]

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	1.   Ian Johnson 2.   Jonathan Emms 3.   Michael Roller
2.	Reason for the notification
a.	Position/status	1.   Executive Chairman 2.   Chief Operating Officer 3.   Chief Financial Officer
b.	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.	Name	NIOX Group plc
b.	LEI	2138006YAT138TOGA556
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	Ordinary Shares of 0.08p each GB00BJVD3B28
b.	Nature of the transaction	Issue of new Ordinary Shares
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 1.   22.01p 2.   22.01p 3.   22.01p 1. 81,781 2. 81,781 3. 81,781
d.	Aggregated information ·      Aggregated volume ·      Price	n/a
e.	Date of the transaction	27/03/2024
f.	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM

 

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