PDMR Share Dealings and Vesting of LTIP Awards

Pebble Group PLC (The)

11 June 2024

 

 11 June 2024

THE PEBBLE GROUP PLC

("The Pebble Group", or the "Group")

AIM: PEBB, OTCQX: PEBBF

PDMR Share Dealings and

Vesting of Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) Awards

The Pebble Group, a leading provider of digital commerce, products and related services to the global promotional products industry, announces the exercise of 40,131 nil cost options ("Options") and the vesting of 44,233 Conditional Share Awards under the Pebble Group plc Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP") on 10 June 2024.

Included in the participants of the Conditional Share Awards vesting was a PDMR who, concurrent with the vesting, also sold 5,676 Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares").

Participant	Position	Ordinary Shares from Conditional Share Award	Ordinary Shares sold	Resultant holding in Ordinary Shares	% of issued share capital of the Group
Karl Whiteside	Group Managing Director, Brand Addition	15,828	5,676	863,972	0.52%

The exercise of nil cost Options and the vesting of Conditional Share Awards under the LTIP, including by one Group PDMR, has been satisfied through the allocation of existing Ordinary Shares held by The Pebble Group Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT"). As such, no new Ordinary Shares have been issued in connection with the Option exercises or the Conditional Share Awards.

Following settlement of these transactions, the EBT will hold a total of 266,880 Ordinary Shares representing 0.16 per cent of the Group's total voting rights.

The notifications below, provided in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation, provide further details.

 Enquiries:

The Pebble Group Chris Lee, Chief Executive Officer Claire Thomson, Chief Financial Officer [phone]	Temple Bar Advisory (Financial PR) Alex Child-Villiers / Alistair de Kare-Silver / Sam Livingstone [phone] [e-mail]
Grant Thornton UK LLP (Nominated Adviser) Samantha Harrison / Harrison Clarke / Ciara Donnelly / Elliot Peters [phone]	Berenberg (Corporate Broker) Ben Wright / Mark Whitmore / Richard Andrews [phone]

About The Pebble Group plc-- www.thepebblegroup.com

The Pebble Group is a provider of digital commerce, products and related services to the global promotional products industry, comprising two differentiated businesses, Facilisgroup and Brand Addition, focused on specific areas of the promotional products market. For further information, please visit www.thepebblegroup.com.

The information set out below is provided in accordance with the requirements of Regulation 19(3) of the EU Market Abuse Regulation No 596/2014: 

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
(a)	Name	Karl Whiteside
2	Reason for the notification
(a)	Position/status	Group Managing Director, Brand Addition
(b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
(a)	Name	The Pebble Group plc
(b)	LEI	213800LZUQAYBHDEQY04
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 1 pence each ISIN GB00BK71XP16 PEBB.L
(b)	Nature of the transaction	Vesting of Conditional share awards pursuant to The Pebble Group plc Long Term Incentive Plan
(c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 1 NIL 15,828
(d)	Aggregated information -         Aggregated volume -         Price	N/A
(e)	Date of the transaction	10 June 2024
(f)	Place of the transaction	XLON

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
(a)	Name	Karl Whiteside
2	Reason for the notification
(a)	Position/status	Group Managing Director, Brand Addition
(b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
(a)	Name	The Pebble Group plc
(b)	LEI	213800LZUQAYBHDEQY04
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 1 pence each ISIN GB00BK71XP16 PEBB.L
(b)	Nature of the transaction	Sale of Ordinary Shares
(c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 1 0.53 5,676
(d)	Aggregated information -         Aggregated volume -         Price	N/A
(e)	Date of the transaction	10 June 2024
(f)	Place of the transaction	XLON

 

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