16 July 2012
NCC Group plc
Director / PDMR Dealing
Exercise of Share Options
NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC or "the Company") announces that on 12 July 2012 the Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs") listed below were granted the following shares by the Trustee of the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan ("the Trustee") pursuant to options exercised by them on 10 July 2012. The exercise price was £1.00 per director/PDMR on the occasion of exercise.
Name |
Director/PDMR |
Number of shares awarded |
Robert Cotton |
Director |
75,951 |
Felicity Brandwood |
PDMR |
24,894 |
Roger Rawlinson |
PDMR |
34,810 |
On the same day the Trustee sold the following shares on behalf of the Director and PDMRs listed below at a price of 810p per share to satisfy the costs of the income tax, national insurance and other liabilities arising on the acquisition of these shares.
Name |
Director/PDMR |
Number of shares sold |
Robert Cotton |
Director |
42,000 |
Felicity Brandwood |
PDMR |
12,971 |
Roger Rawlinson |
PDMR |
18,138 |
As a result of the exercise of their respective options, the Director and PDMRs are net acquirers of shares and their shareholdings have increased as shown in the table below.
Name |
Director/PDMR |
Former shareholding |
Current Shareholding |
Percentage of issued share capital |
Robert Cotton |
Director |
1,733,075* |
1,767,026* |
5.12% |
Felicity Brandwood |
PDMR |
168,541 |
180,464 |
0.52% |
Roger Rawlinson |
PDMR |
212,822** |
229,494** |
0.66% |
* Including 7,000 shares held by spouse
** Including 6,909 shares held by spouse
Grant of new Share Options
On 13 July 2012 the Company received notification that the Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs") listed below had been granted the following share options on 9 July 2012 by the Trustee of the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan ("the Trustee") at nil cost.
Name |
Director/PDMR |
Number of options awarded over ordinary shares of 1p each |
Total number of shares over which options held as at the date of this announcement |
Robert Cotton |
Director |
53,582 |
207,714 |
Atul Patel |
Director |
24,922 |
53,631 |
Roger Rawlinson |
PDMR |
28,037 |
104,266 |
Pete Stock |
PDMR |
24,922 |
52,691 |
Felicity Brandwood |
PDMR |
19,937 |
74,572 |
The new options granted will become exercisable in the period from 1 June 2015 to 9 July 2016. The exercise price is £1.00 on each occasion of exercise.
The above transactions have been notified for the purposes of DTR 3.1.2R and DTR 3.1.4R.
Enquiries: |
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NCC Group (www.nccgroup.com) |
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Felicity Brandwood, Company Secretary NCC Group |
0161 209 5381 |
Dan Webster/Richard Brown |
020 7418 8861 |