Grant of Options-Replacement
Telecom Plus PLC
09 March 2006
The announcement replaces RNS announcement 5001Z dated 8 March 2006. The total
number of Existing Shares over which options have been granted on 8 March 2006
should have read 3,919,170 and not '382,686'. As a result, npower now has an
option over 16,875,211 existing ordinary shares not '13,338,727' as previously
stated. All other details remain the same.
9 March 2006
Telecom plus plc
Grant of options over Directors' and Senior Employees' Existing Shares
In accordance with the announcements made on 16 February 2006 and 7 March 2006,
Telecom plus plc (the 'Company') has been notified today that certain Directors,
senior employees and connected persons, as detailed below, have on 8 March 2006
granted Npower Limited (npower) an option to acquire part or all of the
shareholdings in the Company in which they are interested amounting in aggregate
to 3,919,170 ordinary shares, representing approximately 5.8 per cent. of the
existing issued share capital of the Company. As a result, npower now has an
option over 16,875,211 existing ordinary shares representing 24.7 per cent. of
the issued share capital. The completion of the transaction is conditional on
further options being granted such that npower has options to acquire an
aggregate of 19,817,711 ordinary shares, representing approximately 29 per cent
of the existing issued share capital.
Name of Director or senior Number of Number of Percentage of
employee Existing Shares Existing Shares Existing Issued
over which Share Capital
Options have under option
been granted
granted to
npower
(%)
Peter Nutting 746,750 500,000 0.7
John Levin 2,254,028 2,254,028 3.3
Stephen Davis 54,730 54,730 0.1
Richard Michell 382,686 360,412 0.5
Wayne Coupland 250,000 250,000 0.4
Clifford Wetherall 250,000 250,000 0.4
Malcolm Wolpert 250,000 250,000 0.4
Total 4,188,194 3,919,170 5.8
This option is exercisable in the six months following publication of the
Company's results for the year ending 31 March 2009. The price per ordinary
share payable by npower on exercise of the option is equal to four times EBITDA
for the year ending 31 March 2008 plus eight times the EBITDA for the year
ending 31 March 2009 (net of cash and debt) divided by the number of ordinary
shares in issue at the time of exercise of the call option, or market value if
higher (based on the average closing price for the preceding 20 dealing days).
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