Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 0827H

Centaur Media PLC

30 October 2008

 



Centaur Media plc (the "Company")

DIRECTORS'/PDMR SHAREHOLDINGS

The Company announces that on 29th October 2008 the following executives were granted options over ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company under the terms of the Centaur Unapproved Share Option Plan 2004. The option price of the grants made was 51.75p.

No consideration was paid for the grant of the options.

Name of executive	Position	Total number of shares awarded
Geoffrey TD Wilmot	Director - Chief Executive Officer	800,000
Timothy J Potter	Publishing Director	590,000
Calum BD Taylor	Events Director	450,000
P Ponsford	Publishing Director	450,000
L Child	Publishing Director	450,000
Michael Lally	Director - Group Finance Director	450,000

Subject to the achievement of the performance criteria based on earnings per share the options will normally be exercised following the announcement of the results of the Company for the year ending 30 June 2012. The options will cease to be exercised after the ten anniversary of grant. The options will not be subject to re-testing.

Following the grant of the options, the executive's holdings in the Company are as follows:

Name of executive	Number of shares held	% of issued share capital	Total number of share options	Total number of LTIP awards
Geoffrey TD Wilmot	NIL	NIL	1,560,110	450,000
Timothy J Potter	NIL	NIL	930,524	315,000
Calum BD Taylor	NIL	NIL	855,879	100,000
P Ponsford	3,735	0.00265%	550,000	50,000
L Child	3,735	0.00265%	550,000	50,000
Michael Lally	NIL	NIL	694,420	170,000

This announcement is made in accordance with DR 3.1.4 R(1)(a) and DR 3.1.4 R(1)(b).

30th October 2008

Name of contact and authorised company official responsible for making this notification:

Ian PH Roberts (Company Secretary)

0207 970 4514

 

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