Grant of shares to employees

RNS Number : 0282F

Zoo Digital Group PLC

15 April 2011

 

ZOO Digital Group plc

("ZOO" or "The Company")

Grant of shares to employees

In order to provide an ongoing incentive to align employees' interests with those of shareholders of ZOO, the directors have resolved to grant from the ZOO Employee Share Trust Limited ("ZEST") 148,260 Ordinary Shares (in aggregate) at nil cost to employees (including executive directors). The shares are to be held for employees within ZEST or the Company's Share Incentive Plan (the "SIP"), as outlined in the announcement of 17 September 2009.

Following these awards the shares beneficially owned by the directors are as follows:

	Prior beneficial shareholding	Grant of SIP shares	Resultant beneficial shareholding
Stuart Green	4,182,868 (17.5%)	1,400	4,184,268 (17.5%)
Helen Gilder	63,687 (0.2%)	1,400	65,087 (0.3%)
Gordon Doran	1,833 (0.0%)	1,400	3,233 (0.0%)

For further enquiries please contact:

ZOO Digital Group plc	0114 241 3700
Stuart Green - Chief Executive Officer
Helen Gilder - Group Finance Director
FinnCap	020 7600 1658
Marc Young / Henrik Persson (corporate finance) Tom Jenkins / Joanna Weaving (corporate broking)
Threadneedle Communications	020 7653 9850
Josh Royston / Terry Garrett

About ZOO Digital Group plc:

ZOO Digital Group plc is a provider of creative media repurposing software and related services. ZOO's media collaboration platform consists of web-based systems and an integrated suite of desktop applications that work with printed materials and audio/visual content, adapting these media to different languages, sizes, and technical formats.  ZOO makes this process extremely quick and cost effective and is clearly differentiated in the market.

ZOO's services are built on its proprietary patented software and enable customers to reduce considerably the costs and time to market of regionalised filmed entertainment materials and marketing campaigns across multiple territories and for a wide range of applications and formats, including printed materials, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, video on demand, electronic sell-through and broadcast.  Working closely with language translation partners, ZOO's media collaboration platform transforms computer-based workflows through radical process re-engineering and provides clear differentiation for the company's production, consulting and custom development services.

ZOO is focused on the worldwide creative media production markets and in particular video production for entertainment applications, with customers including major film studios and other producers and publishers of video-based consumer products.

DVD is a trademark of the DVD Format/Logo Licensing Corporation.  Blu-ray is a trademark of the Blu-ray Disc Association. 

 

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