Exercise of Options and PDMR Transactions

RNS Number : 1967U

Wynnstay Group PLC

20 October 2017

 

Wynnstay Group plc

("Wynnstay" or "the Company")

Exercise of Options and PDMR Transactions

Exercise of Options

Wynnstay, the agricultural and retail group, announces that options to subscribe for 8,860 ordinary shares of 25 each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), which were issued under the Company's Save As You Earn Scheme (the "Scheme"), have today been exercised by certain employees of the Company (the "Options"). Pursuant to this exercise of the Options, an application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for 8,860 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will become effective at 8am on 26 October 2017.

Included in the above exercise of Options, the following director exercised Options under the Scheme at an exercise price of 340 pence per Ordinary Share:

Name	No. of Options exercised	Number of Ordinary Shares held follow Option exercise	% of enlarged Ordinary Share capital held
Mr B.P. Roberts	1,323	101,498	0.52%

Following the exercise of Options, and for the purposes of the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue as at Admission will be 19,641,192 with each share carrying the right to one vote. There are no shares held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company at Admission will be 19,641,192.

The above figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

ESOP transaction

The Company also announces that the Wynnstay ESOP Trust (the "ESOP") has today acquired 7,407 Ordinary Shares from employees of the Company who had exercised Options in the Scheme at a price of 475 pence per Ordinary Share. K.R Greetham and B.P. Roberts, both directors of the Company, are trustees of the Wynnstay ESOP.

The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provide further details of the PDMR dealings set out above.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	MR B.P. Roberts
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Finance Director
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Wynnstay Group plc
b)	LEI	213800TOLA726AITR960
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 25 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") GB0034212331
b)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of Options over Ordinary Shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Exercise Price(s) Volume(s) 340.0  pence per share 1,323 Ordinary Shares
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	N/A (single transaction)
e)	Date of the transaction	20/10/2017
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside of a trading venue.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Wynnstay ESOP Trust (the "ESOP")
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Ken Greetham and Paul Roberts, both directors of the Company, are trustees of the ESOP
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Wynnstay Group plc
b)	LEI	213800TOLA726AITR960
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 25 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") GB0034212331
b)	Nature of the transaction	Purchase of  Ordinary Shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 475.0 pence per share 7,407 Ordinary Shares
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	N/A (single transaction)
e)	Date of the transaction	20/10/2017
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside of a trading venue.

Enquiries:

Wynnstay Group plc	Ken Greetham, Chief Executive Paul Roberts, Finance Director	T: 01691 827 142
KTZ Communications	Katie Tzouliadis	T: 020 3178 6378
Shore Capital (Nomad)	Stephane Auton / Patrick Castle	T: 020 7408 4090

 

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