Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 2397Z

XLMedia PLC

13 March 2017

 

For immediate release

XLMedia PLC

("XLMedia" or "the Group" or "the Company")

Director and PDMR Share Dealing

XLMedia (AIM: XLM), a leading provider of digital performance marketing services, has been informed that on 10 March 2017 Ory Weihs, Chief Executive Officer, exercised options over 96,250 ordinary shares in the Company (the "Options"), being all the vested options he currently holds in XLMedia.

The decision to exercise options reflects Mr. Weihs' confidence and commitment to XLMedia and he will not be selling shares as part of the transaction.

The 96,250 options were exercised at a price of 15.4 cent each resulting in the receipt by the Company of an aggregate amount of 12,171 GBP.

Following the exercise of the Options, Mr. Weihs holds 6,930,673 shares representing 3.46% of the Company's existing issued share capital, of which 2,456,667 ordinary shares (approximately 1.23% of the Company's issued share capital) are held directly and 4,474,006 ordinary shares (approximately 2.23% of the Company's issued share capital) are held through an indirect economic interest in (but with no voting rights attaching to) such ordinary shares which are held by Webpals Enterprises Limited. Mr. Weihs continues to hold options over 83,333 ordinary shares in the Company.

 The exercise of the Options is being satisfied by the transfer of shares from the Tamir Fishman Trusts 2004 Ltd ("Tamir Fishman"), the appointed trustee for the Company's Global Share Incentive Plan. Following the transfer of shares Tamir Fishman holds 2,176,229 ordinary shares in the Company representing 1.09% of the Company's issued share capital.

Following the exercise of the Options the total number of Ordinary Shares in the Company remains at 200,352,402 and this is the figure which may be used by shareholders 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 Company, under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules set out in the Company's articles of association.

ANNEX

Template for notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Mr. Ory Weihs
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	CEO and Director / PDMR
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	XLMedia Plc.
b)	LEI	2138008U4S6FBDHGWY81
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 US0.000001 JE00BH6XDL31
b)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of Options pursuant to The Group Incentive Plan
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) US$ 0.154 96,250
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	N/A
e)	Date of the transaction	March 10, 2017
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange

For further information, contact:

XLMedia plc Ory Weihs www.xlmedia.com   Tel: [phone] Vigo Communications Jeremy Garcia / Fiona Henson www.vigocomms.com   Tel: [phone] Cenkos Securities plc (Nomad and Joint Broker) Ivonne Cantu / Camilla Hume www.cenkos.com   Tel: [phone] Berenberg (Joint Broker) Chris Bowman / Mark Whitmore / Amritha Murali www.berenberg.com Tel: [phone]

 

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