Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 4725T
Smith (DS) PLC
22 July 2022
 

DS Smith Plc

Exercise of Options by Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs")

 

Date 22 July 2022

1

 

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

 

Name

 

 STEFANO ROSSI

2

 

Reason for the notification

a)

 

Position/status

 

CHIEF EXECUTIVE PACKAGING

b)

 

Initial notification /Amendment

INITIAL NOTIFICATION

3

 

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

 

Name

 

DS SMITH PLC

b)

 

LEI

39RSBE4RCI4M15BLWH36

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 10 PENCE EACH

 

 

SMDS

b)

 

Nature of the transaction

 

 

Exercise of options over 43,055 ordinary shares which were nil cost options granted on 15 July 2019 under the Deferred Share Bonus Plan (DSBP) that vested on 15 July 2022 together with their associated dividend equivalent shares and the consequential sale of 22,865 shares to pay the tax due on that exercise

 

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Item

Price(s)

 

Volume(s)

Option

£NIL

43,055

Sale

£2.836

22,865

 

 

 

 

 

 

d)

 

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

 

43,055

£NIL

 

22,865

£2.836

e)

 

Date of the transaction

21 July 2022

f)

 

Place of the transaction

LONDON

 

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