Director/PDMR Dealing

RNS Number : 8251C
Angling Direct PLC
21 October 2020
 

Angling Direct plc

 

("Angling Direct" or the "Company")

 

Director/PDMR Dealing

 

 

Angling Direct plc (AIM: ANG), the largest specialist fishing tackle and equipment retailer in the UK, announces that on 16 October 2020, certain of the Company's Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMRs") sold ordinary shares of 1 penny each ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 61.25 pence per share. Further details of the Ordinary Shares sold by each PDMR and their resultant respective interests in the Company's issued share capital are set out in the table below:

 

Director/PDMR

Number of Ordinary Shares sold

Resultant number of Ordinary Shares held

% interest in the Company's issued share capital

Darren Ian Bailey

100,000

3,088,125

4.0%

Keith William Easton

100,000

260,312

0.34%

Stewart John Downing

100,000

263,312

0.34%

Wouter Gisjbert Putman

100,000

260,312

0.34%

 

For further information please contact:

 

Angling Direct PLC

    +44 (0) 1603 258658

Martyn Page, Executive Chairman
Andy Torrance, Chief Executive Officer
Steven Crowe, Chief Financial Officer


N+1 Singer - NOMAD and Broker


Peter Steel, Alex Bond (Corporate Finance)
Tom Salvesen (Corporate Broking)

+44 (0) 20 7496 3000

Yellow Jersey PR - Financial PR

+44 (0) 203 004 9512

Charles Goodwin
Georgia Colkin
Annabel Atkins

+44 (0) 7747 788 221
+44 (0) 7825 916 715



About Angling Direct

 

Angling Direct is the largest specialist fishing tackle retailer in the UK. The Company sells fishing tackle products and related equipment through its network of retail stores, located throughout the UK as well as through its own websites (www.anglingdirect.co.uk, .de, .fr and .nl) and other third-party websites.

 

The Company currently sells over 21,500 fishing tackle products, including capital items, consumables, luggage and clothing. The Company also owns and sells fishing tackle products under its own brand 'Advanta', which was formally launched in March 2016.

 

From 1986 to 2002, the Company's founders acquired interests in a number of small independent fishing tackle shops in Norfolk and, in 2002, they acquired a significant premise in Norwich, which was branded Angling Direct. Since 2002, the Company has continued to acquire or open new stores, taking the total number up to 36 retail stores. In 2015, the Company opened a 30,000 sq. ft central distribution centre in Rackheath, Norfolk, where the Company's head office is also located. The Company has an established, and rapidly growing, presence in Europe with native language websites set up in key regions to address demand.

 

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

 

1

 

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

 

a)

Name

Darren Ian Bailey

2

Reason for the notification

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

Angling Direct plc

b)

LEI

213800WAVVOPS85N2205

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 1 pence each

 

 

GB00BF1XGQ00

b)

Nature of the transaction

Sale of Ordinary Shares

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

Price

Volume

£0.6125

100,000

d)

 

Aggregated information

 

- Aggregated volume

 

- Price

 

N/A - single transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

16 October 2020

f)

Place of the transaction

London Stock Exchange, AIM Market (XLON)

 

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

 

1

 

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

 

a)

Name

Keith William Easton

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Financial Controller

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial Notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Angling Direct plc

b)

LEI

213800WAVVOPS85N2205

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 1 pence each

 

 

GB00BF1XGQ00

b)

Nature of the transaction

Sale of Ordinary Shares

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

Price

Volume

£0.6125

100,000

d)

 

Aggregated information

 

- Aggregated volume

 

- Price

 

N/A - single transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

16 October 2020

f)

Place of the transaction

London Stock Exchange, AIM Market (XLON)

 

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

 

1

 

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

 

a)

Name

Stewart John Downing

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Group Commercial Manager

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial Notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Angling Direct plc

b)

LEI

213800WAVVOPS85N2205

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 1 pence each

 

 

GB00BF1XGQ00

b)

Nature of the transaction

Sale of Ordinary Shares

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

Price

Volume

£0.6125

100,000

d)

 

Aggregated information

 

- Aggregated volume

 

- Price

 

N/A - single transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

16 October 2020

f)

Place of the transaction

London Stock Exchange, AIM Market (XLON)

 

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

 

1

 

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

 

a)

Name

Wouter Gisjbert Putman

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Ecommerce and Operations Manager

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial Notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Angling Direct plc

b)

LEI

213800WAVVOPS85N2205

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 1 pence each

 

 

GB00BF1XGQ00

b)

Nature of the transaction

Sale of Ordinary Shares

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

Price

Volume

£0.6125

100,000

d)

 

Aggregated information

 

- Aggregated volume

 

- Price

 

N/A - single transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

16 October 2020

f)

Place of the transaction

London Stock Exchange, AIM Market (XLON)

 

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