Exercise of options and sale of shares

RNS Number : 3343A

Volex PLC

10 September 2018

 

Exercise of share options under the 2009 Volex plc Performance Share Plan

Volex plc ("Volex" or "the Company") announces that on 8 August 2018 Daren Morris, Chief Financial Officer, notified the Company to request that they instruct the Trustees of the Volex plc Employee Share Trust to exercise share options in accordance with the Rules of the 2009 Volex plc Performance Share Plan.

Following receipt of this notification, on the 6 September 2018 the Company instructed the Trustees accordingly, and on the 7 September 2018 the Volex plc Employee Share Trust sold 136,083 shares in order to satisfy the exercise of options issued to Daren Morris under the 2009 Volex plc Performance Share Plan. 

All the options exercised had an exercise price of 25.0 pence per share and the shares sold had a sale price of 86.9 pence per share. Both the exercise and the subsequent sale were done through the Volex plc Employee Share Trust and there was no increase in share capital or change in Mr Morris' shareholding.

The net effect of the exercise and sale and the resultant holdings are shown in the table below:

Director	Position	Holding pre-exercise and sale	Change in ordinary shares	Holding post- exercise and sale	Holding % ISC
Daren Morris	Chief Financial Officer	502,647	0	502,647	0.3

The below notifications, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, give further detail.

1.	Details of PDMR / person closely associated (PCA)
a)	Name	Daren Morris
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position / status	Chief Financial Officer
b)	Initial notification / amendment	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Full name of the entity	Volex PLC
b)	LEI	213800HBLQNH5FXXGE63
4.	Details of the transaction(s)
a)	Description of the financial instrument Identification Code	Ordinary Shares GB0009390070
b)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of options and subsequent sale of shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Exercise of 136,083 options to acquire shares at £0.25 per share and sale of 136,083 of those shares at £0.869 per share
d)	Aggregated information	Exercise of 136,083 options to acquire shares for a total of £34,021 at £0.25  per share and sale of 136,083  of those shares for a total of £118,256 at £0.869 per share
e)	Date of the transaction	7 September 2018
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM Market (XLON)

For further information, please contact:

Volex plc                                                                           Tel: [phone]
Daren Morris, CFO

Liberum
(Nominated Adviser & Sole Broker)              Tel: [phone]

Steve Pearce
Euan Brown

 

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