Directors' Dealings

RNS Number : 0368W

Spark Ventures PLC

21 July 2009

 



SPARK Ventures PLC

Directors' Dealings

SPARK Ventures plc ('SPARK' or the 'Company') announces that three directors of the Company have today purchased ordinary shares of 2.5p each in SPARK ('Shares') by exercising share options originally granted to them under the NewMedia SPARK plc 2001 share option scheme. These share options are over existing Shares in issue held by the NewMedia SPARK Employee Benefit Trust.

Details of the options exercised are as follows:

Name of Director	Andrew Carruthers	Michael Whitaker	Thomas Teichman
Number of options exercised	1,280,000	840,000	840,000
Price paid per Share	2.5p	2.5p	2.5p
Number of Shares held after exercise	6,587,240	19,720,551	15,569,138
% of Shares in issue held after exercise	1.60%	4.80%	3.79%

Since no new Shares are being issued in connection with the above dealings, there is no change in the total issued share capital of the Company.

For further information:

SPARK Ventures plc	Andrew Betton  Finance Director & Company Secretary	020 7851 7777
Collins Stewart Europe Limited (Nomad)	Hugh Field Stewart Wallace	020 7523 8350

21 July 2009

 

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