Exercise of Options & Total Voting Rights

RNS Number : 8780H

Driver Group plc

13 June 2017

 

Driver Group plc

("Driver" or the "Company")

Exercise of Options and Total Voting Rights

Driver announces that it has issued 500,000 new ordinary shares in the capital of the Company (the "New Shares") following an exercise of historic share options by Mark Wheeler, Chief Operating Officer and PDMR of the Company over 400,000 New Shares and also by an employee. Following the exercise, Mr. Wheeler holds 400,000 ordinary shares in the Company. Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the New Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM, with dealings expected to commence on 16 June 2017 ("Admission").

Following Admission, the Company will have a total of 53,862,868 Ordinary Shares in issue each carrying one voting right. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Treasury. This figure of 53,862,868 Ordinary Shares 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 share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provide further detail.

Enquiries:
Driver Group plc Gordon Wilkinson, Group Chief Executive Hugh Cawley, CFO	[phone] Email:[e-mail] [phone] Email: [e-mail]
N+1 Singer (Nominated Adviser & Broker) Sandy Fraser Alex Laughton-Scott	[phone]

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Mark Wheeler
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Chief Operating Officer of Driver Group plc
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Driver Group plc
b)	LEI	n/a
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 0.4p each ISIN Code: GB00B0L9C092
b)	Nature of the transaction	(i)         Exercise of options (ii)         Exercise of options
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s): Volume(s): (i)         21.5 pence (ii)         Nil 200,000 200,000
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	N/A
e)	Date of the transaction	12/06/2017
f)	Place of the transaction	Off market

 

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