Issue of Share Options

Eagle Eye Solutions Group PLC

21 November 2023

 

21 November 2023

Eagle Eye Solutions Group plc

("Eagle Eye" or the "Company")

Issue of share options

Eagle Eye, a leading SaaS company that creates digital customer connections enabling personalised, real-time marketing announces that the following options over ordinary shares of 1p each in Eagle Eye ("Ordinary Shares") were granted today to the following Executive Directors and person discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMRs") of Eagle Eye for nil cost as follows:

Director/PDMR	Role	Number of Ordinary Shares subject to FY26 option grant	Total number of Ordinary Shares under option post grant	Total as % of existing issued share capital
Tim Mason	Chief Executive Officer	75,674	1,776,148	6.0%
Steve Rothwell	Chief Information Officer	44,686	282,307	1.0%
Lucy Sharman-Munday	Chief Financial Officer	44,686	622,718	2.1%
Al Henderson	Chief Sales Officer	24,759	196,158	0.7%
David Aylmer	Chief Operating Officer	24,759	333,056	1.1%
Claire Essex-Crosby	Chief People Officer	15,613	78,482	0.3%
James Esson	Company Secretary	16,382	49,031	0.2%

The FY26 awards have been made under the Eagle Eye Solutions Group plc Long Term Incentive Plan scheme with an exercise price of 1p per Ordinary Share. The awards have been granted under the current year's Long Term Incentive Plan performance criteria, vesting following completion of the three-year period ending 30 June 2026 subject to revenue and EBITDA performance criteria and the overall underlying performance of the Company. Consistent with previous awards, the number of options which vest will vary depending on the level of achievement between threshold, target and stretch performance levels.

Following the new grant of options and assuming all vesting criteria are met, the fully diluted number of Ordinary Shares would be 33,407,257; of which the total number of Ordinary Shares over which options currently issued and outstanding represent 12.0% of the fully diluted number of Ordinary Shares. This is in accordance with the Company's shareholder approved limit for shares outstanding under the Company's share option schemes at any time of a maximum of 20% of the ordinary share capital of the Company in issue at such time.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	1.   Tim Mason 2.   Steve Rothwell 3.   Lucy Sharman-Munday 4.   Al Henderson 5.   David Aylmer 6.   Claire Essex-Crosby 7.   James Esson
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	1.   Chief Executive Officer 2.   Chief Information Officer 3.   Chief Financial Officer 4.   Chief Sales Officer 5.   Chief Operating Officer 6.   Chief People Officer 7.   Company Secretary
b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Eagle Eye Solutions Group plc
b)	LEI	2138002S1AIBVVMZ7A21
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	Options over Ordinary Shares of 1p each GB00BKF1YD83
b)	Nature of transaction	Grant of Options over Ordinary Shares pursuant to Eagle Eye Solutions Group plc Long Term Incentive Plan
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)	Volume(s)
		1.   Nil 2.   Nil 3.   Nil 4.   Nil 5.   Nil 6.   Nil 7.   Nil	1.   75,674 2.   44,686 3.   44,686 4.   24,759 5.   24,759 6.   15,613 7.   16,382
	Aggregated information -      Aggregated volume -      Price	Not applicable
e)	Date of the transaction	20 November 2023
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside of a trading venue

Enquiries:

For further information, please contact: Tim Mason, Chief Executive Officer Lucy Sharman-Munday, Chief Financial Officer	Tel: [phone]
Investec (Nominated Advisor and Joint Broker) Corporate Broking: David Anderson / Nick Prowting	Tel: [phone]
Shore Capital (Joint Broker) Corporate Finance: Daniel Bush / David Coaten / Lucy Bowden Corporate Broking: Henry Willcocks	Tel: [phone]
Alma Caroline Forde / Hannah Campbell / Kinvara Verdon	Tel: [phone]

About Eagle Eye

Eagle Eye is a leading SaaS technology company enabling retail, travel and hospitality brands to earn the loyalty of their end customers by powering their real-time, omnichannel and personalised consumer marketing activities.

Eagle Eye AIR is a cloud-based platform, which provides the most flexible and scalable loyalty and promotions capability in the world. More than 750 million personalised offers are executed via the platform every week, and it currently hosts over 100 million individual loyalty members for businesses all over the world. We are trusted to deliver a secure service at hundreds of thousands of physical POS destinations worldwide, enabling the real-time issuance and redemption of promotional coupons, loyalty offers, gift cards, subscription benefits and more.

The Eagle Eye AIR platform is currently powering loyalty and customer engagement solutions for enterprise businesses all over the world, including Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, Waitrose and John Lewis & Partners, JD Sports, Pret a Manger, Loblaws, Southeastern Grocers, Giant Eagle and the Woolworths Group.

In January 2023, the Group acquired France-based Untie Nots, an AI-powered personalised promotions business, adding Carrefour, E. Leclerc, Auchan and other leading brands to its European customer base.

For more information, please visit www.eagleeye.com

 

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