12 May 2014
Just Retirement Group plc (the "Company")
GRANT OF SAYE SHARE OPTIONS
Just Retirement Group plc announces that on 12 May 2014 options were granted in accordance with a new Sharesave Scheme over an aggregate of 4,261,320 ordinary shares of 10p each in the share capital of the Company.
The Sharesave Scheme is an all-employee share option plan, which has been approved by HMRC and is intended to encourage wider employee share ownership of the Company. The level of participation in this first SAYE grant by the Company is close to 65%.
Options were granted pursuant to 3 and 5 year savings contracts, with maturity dates of 1 June 2017 and 1 June 2019 for 3,180,312 and 1,081,008 ordinary shares respectively. The exercise price was set at 121p per share in accordance with the Scheme rules and the grant of options represents, in aggregate, 0.85% of the Company's existing issued ordinary share capital.
SAYE share options were granted to the Company's Directors and persons discharging managerial responsibility as follows:
Name |
Position |
Share Options Granted |
Rodney Cook |
Director |
14,876 |
Simon Thomas |
Director |
14,876 |
Shayne Deighton |
Director |
24,793 |
Steven Kyle |
PDMR |
14,876 |
Christopher Berryman |
PDMR |
14,876 |
David Cooper |
PDMR |
24,793 |
Anne Ridge |
PDMR |
14,876 |
Alexander Duncan |
PDMR |
14,876 |
Timothy Crayford |
PDMR |
14,876 |
This notification is made pursuant to Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.4.
Martin Smith
Group Company Secretary
12 May 2014