Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 2074S

Pets At Home Group Plc

29 September 2017

 

29 September 2017

Notification of Transaction of PDMR

Pets at Home Group Plc

Pets at Home Group Plc ("the Company") makes the following announcement regarding one of its Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility's (PDMR) participation in the Company's Sharesave Plan ("Sharesave")

The Sharesave Plan is a tax advantaged share option plan available to all of the Company's employees, subject to qualifying conditions.  It offers the opportunity for employees to buy ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("Share") in the Company using savings accumulated over a three year period.

The PDMR detailed below has elected to cancel his participation in the 2016 offer of Sharesave, resulting in the lapsing of the options originally granted to him on 11th October 2016 with an exercise price of £1.97 per Share.  The options would have become exercisable on 1st December 2019.  4,550 options lapsed.  The notification of dealing form for the PDMR can be found below.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Peter Pritchard
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Chief Executive of the Retail Division
b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Pets at Home Group Plc
b)	LEI	N/A
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	Options over Ordinary shares of 1 pence each in Pets at Home Group Plc ISIN  GB00BJ62K685
b)	Nature of the Transaction	Peter Pritchard cancelled his participation in the 2016 offer under the Pets at Home Group Sharesave Scheme and discontinued his monthly contributions resulting in the lapsing of the Options originally granted to him on the 11th October 2016 with an exercise price of £1.97 per Share.  The Sharesave is a tax advantaged share scheme offered to all eligible employees of the Company.
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)		Volume(s)
		£1.97		4,550
d)	Aggregated information -      Aggregated volume -      Price	Price	Aggregated volume		Aggregate Total
		£1.97 per Share	4,550		£8,963.50
e)	Date of Transaction	28th September 2017
f)	Place of Transaction	London Stock Exchange (XLON)

This announcement is made in accordance with Article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation and the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Persons responsible for arranging the release of this announcement

Louise Stonier

Group Legal Director and Company Secretary

Pets at Home Group Plc

Epsom Avenue

Stanley Green Trading Estate

Handforth

Cheshire

SK9 3RN

Tel: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

 

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