SAYE Options, PDMR Dealings and EBT Shareholding

Ultimate Products PLC

19 February 2024

 

19 February 2024

Ultimate Products plc

("Ultimate Products", "Company" or "the Group")

Exercise of SAYE options

PDMR dealings

and

EBT Shareholding

Ultimate Products, the owner of a number of leading homeware brands including Salter (the UK's oldest houseware brand, est.1760) and Beldray (est.1872), announces that on 19 February 2024, under its Save As You Earn Scheme (the "SAYE Scheme"), 24,356 share options were exercised at a price of 73.90 pence per option and were satisfied by the transfer of 24,356 existing ordinary shares of 0.25 pence in the Company ("Shares") held by the UP Global Sourcing Employee Benefit Trust (the "EBT").

Pursuant to the above, Katie Maxwell, a person discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMRs"), exercised options over 12,178 Shares, further details of which are set out at the end of this announcement.

Following the above transactions, the EBT holds 2,387,203 Shares, representing approximately 2.7% of the Company's issued share capital.

The current issued share capital of the Company remains 89,312,457 Shares. This figure 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 Company, under the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules of the FCA.

For more information, please contact:

Ultimate Products [phone]

Andrew Gossage, CEO

Simon Showman, CCO

Chris Dent, CFO

Shore Capital [phone]

Mark Percy

Malachy McEntyre

David Coaten
Iain Sexton

Isobel Jones

Cavendish Capital Markets Limited + 44 (0)20 7220 0500

Carl Holmes (Corporate Finance)

Matt Goode (Corporate Finance)

Abigail Kelly (Corporate Finance)

Charlie Combe (ECM)

Powerscourt [phone]

Rob Greening

Sam Austrums

Oliver Banks

Pursuant to the notification obligations in accordance with Article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR)

1.	Details of PDMR / person closely associated with them ('PCA')
a)	Name	Katie Maxwell
2.	Details of PDMR / person closely associated with them ('PCA')
a)	Position / status	Trading Director
b)	Initial notification / amendment	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Ultimate Products Plc
b)	LEI	213800Q5GWTVIW6KJW33
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
c)	Description of the financial instrument	Ordinary shares of 0.25p each in the capital of Ultimate Products plc ("Shares")   ISIN: GB00BYX7MG58
d)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of options over Shares pursuant to the Company's Save As You Earn Scheme
e)	Price and volume	Price (PENCE) Volume Exercise of Options 73.90 12,178
f)	Aggregated information  Aggregated volume  Price	Option Shares: as above
g)	Date of the transaction	19 February 2024
h)	Place of the transaction	Exercise of options off-market

Notes to Editors

Ultimate Products is the owner of a number of leading homeware brands including Salter (the UK's oldest houseware brand, established in 1760) and Beldray (a laundry, floor care, heating and cooling brand that was established in 1872). According to its market research, nearly 80% of UK households own at least one of the Group's products.

Ultimate Products sells to over 300 retailers across more than 40 countries, and specialises in five product categories: Small Domestic Appliances; Housewares; Laundry; Audio; and Heating and Cooling. Other brands include Progress (cookware and bakeware), Kleeneze (laundry and floorcare), Petra (small domestic appliances) and Intempo (audio).

The Group's products are sold to a broad cross-section of both large national and international multi-channel retailers as well as smaller national retail chains, incorporating discount retailers, supermarkets, general retailers and online retailers.

Founded in 1997, Ultimate Products employs over 370 staff, a significant number of whom have joined via the Group's graduate development scheme, and is headquartered in Oldham, Greater Manchester, where it has design, sales, marketing, buying, quality assurance, support functions and warehouse facilities across two sites. Manor Mill, the Group's head office, includes a spectacular 20,000 sq ft showroom that showcases each of its brands. In addition, the Group has an office and showroom in Guangzhou, China and Paris, France.

Please note that Ultimate Products is not the owner of Russell Hobbs. The Company has licence agreements in place granting it an exclusive licence to use the "Russell Hobbs" trademark for cookware (NB this does not include Russell Hobbs electrical appliances).

For further information, please visit www.upplc.com

 

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