Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 4794T

Allergy Therapeutics PLC

12 October 2017

 

12 October 2017

Allergy Therapeutics plc

("Allergy Therapeutics" or the "Company")

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Allergy Therapeutics (AIM:AGY), the fully integrated specialty pharmaceutical company specialising in allergy vaccines, announces that, on 11 October 2017, Tunde Otulana, Non-Executive Director of the Company, purchased 25,000 ordinary shares of 0.10p in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of $0.5066 per Ordinary Share (equivalent to 38.41p per Ordinary Share)*. Mr Otulana's total beneficial holding now amounts to 25,000 Ordinary Shares, which represents 0.004% of the issued share capital of the Company to which voting rights are attached.

Notification of transactions of persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Babatunde (Tunde) Otulana
2	Reason for the notification Acquisition of shares
a)	Position/status	Non-Executive Director
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	ALLERGY THERAPEUTICS PLC
b)	LEI
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
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Ordinary Shares of £0.0001 each
b)	Nature of the transaction	Purchase of Ordinary Shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) $0.5066 per Ordinary share 25,000
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	25,000 ordinary shares $12,665.00
e)	Date of the transaction	11 October 2017
f)	Place of the transaction	United States

This announcement contains insider information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulatory (EU) No596/2014.

*calculated at a rate of GBP £1.00 to USD $1.3189, as at midday (BST) 11 October 2017

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For further information, please contact:

Allergy Therapeutics

[phone]

Manuel Llobet, Chief Executive Officer

Nick Wykeman, Finance Director

Panmure Gordon

[phone]

Freddy Crossley / Duncan Monteith, Corporate Finance

Tom Salvesen, Corporate Broking

Consilium Strategic Communications

[phone]

Mary-Jane Elliott / Ivar Milligan / Philippa Gardner

[e-mail]

Notes for editors:

About Allergy Therapeutics

Allergy Therapeutics is an international specialty pharmaceutical group focussed on the treatment and diagnosis of allergic disorders, including immunotherapy vaccines that have the potential to cure disease. The Group sells proprietary and third party products from its subsidiaries in nine major European countries and via distribution agreements in an additional ten countries. Its broad pipeline of products in clinical development include vaccines for grass, tree and house dust mite, and peanut allergy vaccine in pre-clinical development. Adjuvant systems to boost performance of vaccines outside allergy are also in development.

Formed in 1999 out of Smith Kline Beecham, Allergy Therapeutics is headquartered in Worthing, UK with more than 11,000m² of state-of-the-art MHRA-approved manufacturing facilities and laboratories.  The Group, which has achieved double digit compound annual growth since formation, employs c.500 employees and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM:AGY). For more information, please see www.allergytherapeutics.com.

 

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