Grant of options

RNS Number : 7864E

Deltex Medical Group PLC

30 December 2009

Deltex Medical Group plc

Grant of options

30 December 2009 - Deltex Medical Group plc (the "Company"), the global leader in oesophageal Doppler monitoring ("ODM"), announces that the Board has yesterday approved the issue of share options to its executive members.

EMI scheme - Salary sacrifice

Following Ewan Phillips and Paul Mitchell's appointments as Chief Executive and Finance Director respectively, they have both elected to sacrifice the whole of the corresponding salary increases awarded by the Company's Remuneration Committee in respect of the period 3 September 2009 to 31 December 2009, resulting in awards of options under the Company's 2003 Enterprise Management Incentive Scheme as follows:

Name	Number	Exercise Price £	Exercise period	Total Number of EMI options held

Ewan Phillips	43,478	0.01	2009 - 2019	2,132,232

Paul Mitchell	31,348	0.01	2009 - 2019	159,008

Additional interests

Mr Phillips also has a beneficial interest in 1,159,773 ordinary shares in the Company representing 0.93 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company. Mr Phillips also holds options over 2,480,000 shares in the Company's Employee share option scheme. These options have a range of exercise periods from 2012 to 2019.

Mr Mitchell also holds options over 615,000 shares in the Company's Employee share option scheme. These options have a range of exercise periods from 2012 to 2019.

All shares and options relate to ordinary 1p shares.

For further information, please contact:-

Deltex Medical Group plc                        01243 774 837
Nigel Keen, Chairman
Ewan Phillips, Chief Executive
Paul Mitchell, Finance Director