Grant of Options

Northern Bear Plc

29 October 2024

 

29 October 2024

Northern Bear plc

("Northern Bear" or the "Company")

Grant of Options

Northern Bear (LSE:NTBR), the AIM quoted holding company of the group of companies providing specialist building and support services headquartered in Northern England and serving customers across the UK, announces that the Company has granted options over, in aggregate, 1,000,000 ordinary shares of 1p each (the "Ordinary Shares"), of which 300,000 to Executive Directors and the remaining balance to be granted to subsidiary management and other employees, under an HMRC approved option scheme.

The options are exercisable at 52.0p per share, being the closing price of the Company's Ordinary Shares on 28 October 2024 (being the last day before the Company made the offer of the option grant). These options are exercisable from 29 October 2027 until 28 October 2034, provided that the option holder is still an officer or employee of the Company, or its subsidiaries, subject to standard good leaver provisions.

The following Executive Directors of the Company have been granted options:

Director	Number of Options Granted	Total Number of Options Held
John Davies	100,000	100,000
Steve Roberts	100,000	100,000
Tom Hayes	100,000	100,000

For further information, please contact:

Northern Bear PLC Tom Hayes - Finance Director John Davies - Chief Executive Officer	[phone]
Strand Hanson Limited (Nominated Adviser) James Harris James Bellman	[phone]
Hybridan LLP (Nominated Broker) Clarie Louise Noyce	[phone]

Director Notification Form:

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	a)   John Davies b)   Steve Roberts c)   Tom Hayes
2.	Reason for the Notification
a)	Position/status	a)   Chief Executive Officer b)   Executive Director c)   Finance Director
b)	Initial notification/amendment	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Northern Bear plc
b)	LEI	21380039N5EBUGAE7T76
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	Options over Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each
	Identification code	GB00B19FLM15
b)	Nature of the Transaction	Options granted under the share option scheme
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Exercise Price(s) Volume(s) a)   52.0p b)   52.0p c)   52.0p a)   100,000 b)   100,000 c)   100,000
d)	Aggregated information Aggregated volume Price	-     300,000 -     52.0 pence
e)	Date of the transaction	29 October 2024
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

 

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