Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 8409O
Serco Group PLC
01 June 2015
 



Serco Group plc ('Serco' or 'the Company') advises that, on 29 May 2015, the individuals named below, each a person discharging managerial responsibility, were granted options to acquire at nominal cost (with the exception of Ed Casey and Dan Allen, whose options are exercisable at nil cost) the following number of ordinary shares of 2p each in the Company, through participation in the Serco Group plc Performance Share Plan ('the PSP'):

 


Option Award (Maximum)

Rupert Soames

1,241,782

Ed Casey

884,487

Angus Cockburn

639,152

Dan Allen

327,086

Liz Benison

230,094

Kevin Craven

287,728

David Eveleigh

199,415

David Greer

192,465

Mark Irwin

227,668

Guy Leach

210,482

Geoff Lloyd

210,664

 

The number of shares that will vest under the PSP is conditional upon the satisfaction of three independent equally-weighted performance measures as follows:

 

Performance

Measure

Weighting of

Measure

Performance Target

Aggregate EPS

1/3rd

Statutory Earnings Per Share (EPS) before exceptional items (adjusted to reflect tax paid on a cash basis) of 10.30p (threshold, 25% vesting) to 12.50p (maximum, 100% vesting), measured as an aggregate over the three-year performance period ending 31 December 2017.

Relative TSR

1/3rd

Total Shareholder Return (TSR) of median (threshold, 25% vesting) to upper quartile (maximum, 100% vesting) when ranked relative to companies in the FTSE250 (excluding investment trusts), measured from the 30-day period following the completion of the Rights Issue to the 30‑day period following announcement of the Company's 2017 results.

ROIC

1/3rd

Pre-tax Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) of 8.4% (threshold, 25% vesting) to 10.2% (maximum, 100% vesting), measured as an average over the three-year performance period ending 31 December 2017.

 

The above performance targets for Aggregate EPS and ROIC reflect the current composition of the Company's business operations and therefore do not take into account the impact of any potential future disposals.  In exceptional circumstances the Remuneration Committee retains discretion to change performance measures and targets and the weightings attached to performance measures part-way through the performance period if there is a significant event such as a major transaction.  

 

Each element of the PSP award will be subject to a post-vesting holding requirement that takes the total term of the award to a minimum of five years for Executive Directors.  Post-vesting clawback also applies to these awards.  Awards to all participants are subject to pre-vesting malus.

 

On the same day, the individuals below were awarded a Matching Share award, under the terms of the Company's Deferred Bonus Plan, as follows:

 

 

 

Investment Shares

Matching Share Award (Maximum)

Rupert Soames

174,446

658,288

Liz Benison

14,358

54,565

David Eveleigh

4,958

18,840

Geoff Lloyd

7,210

27,401

 

Other than for Rupert Soames, the Investment Shares were purchased at 138 pence per share each on the London Stock Exchange.  Rupert Soames' Investment Shares noted above reflect shares Rupert already owned and 138 pence was used to determine the number of shares that he was entitled to invest under the Deferred Bonus Plan.  Rupert's entitlement is based on the Bonus which he was awarded but which he chose to waive payment of. 

 

The number of shares that will vest under the Deferred Bonus Plan is conditional upon the satisfaction of the three-year Aggregate EPS performance measure described above.  At threshold each individual investment share purchased will be matched (on a gross investment basis) by half a 'matching' share, increasing to a maximum of two 'matching' shares at the maximum performance target level.  Pre-vesting malus and post-vesting clawback will also apply to the Matching Share Award.

 

In addition, on the same day, the Company also made the following awards to David Eveleigh to compensate him for non-performance based awards he forfeited on his departure from BT Group.  David was granted 133,300 options to acquire at nominal cost ordinary shares of 2p each in the Company that are not conditional on performance measures and are subject only to continued employment on the vesting dates as follows:

 

Number of shares

Vesting Date

20,251

14 August 2015

11,889

20 May 2016

43,157

14 August 2016

58,003

20 May 2017

 

This notice is given in fulfilment of obligations under DTR3.1.2R and DTR3.1.4R(1)(a).


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