Issue of Options

RNS Number : 7348B

CyanConnode Holdings PLC

05 April 2017

 

CyanConnode Holdings plc

("CyanConnode" or the "Group")

Issue of Options

CyanConnode (AIM:CYAN.L), the world leader in narrowband radio mesh networks, announces that it has awarded options to acquire ordinary shares of 0.01 pence per share in the Company ("Options") to John Cronin, Executive Chairman, to Simon Smith, Chief Financial Officer, and to Harry Berry, Non-Executive Director and to certain other employees of the Group, as follows:

Name	Position	Current number of Options held	Exercise Price of current Options (in pence per share)	Number of new Options granted	Exercise price (in pence per share)	Total number of Options now held	Per cent. of current issued share capital
John Cronin	Executive Chairman	76,560,756 101,689,440 387,580,509	0.30 0.42 0.25	146,130,076	0.2172	711,960,781	4.00%
		565,830,705
Simon Smith	Chief Financial Officer	42,006,335 26,149,218	0.30 0.42	57,026,371	0.2172	273,431,469	1.53%
		148,249,545	0.25
		216,405,098
Harry Berry	Non-Executive Director	5,000,000 7,000,000 22,320,884	0.38 0.29 0.28	28,513,186	0.2172	137,422,941	0.77%
		74,588,871	0.25
		108,989,755

The Options for all three directors are exercisable as to 33 per cent. of the issued amount from 3 April 2018 and 33 per cent. of the issued amount on 3 April for each of the following two years.

The Options will lapse if unexercised after 10 years from the date of grant.  The Options have been issued at an exercise price of 0.2172 pence per share, which represents a 28 per cent. premium to the Placing price of 0.17 pence approved by shareholders at the General Meeting held on 3 April 2017 and a premium of 20 per cent. to the closing market price on 5 April 2017, being the day before the options were issued. The Options already held by all three directors are at significant premiums to the current share price and can be seen in the table above.

The Options listed above are the only share options currently held by each of John Cronin, Simon Smith and Harry Berry, and represent a total of 6.3 per cent. of the issued share capital following admission to AIM on 7 April 2017 of the 1,906,912,392 new ordinary shares issued pursuant to the Placing announced on 17 March 2017.

In addition to the Options, the directors above have the following interests in ordinary shares in the company:

Name	Amount invested to date (£)	No of ordinary shares held	Percentage of current issued share capital
John Cronin	791,217	386,090,663	2.17%
Simon Smith	505,238	210,633,681	1.18%
Harry Berry	203,021	96,559,292	0.54%
TOTAL	1,499,476	693,283,636	3.89%

Following the above grants, the total number of ordinary shares under option represent 12.7 per cent. of the current issued share capital of the Group.

Enquiries:

CyanConnode Holdings plc	www.cyanconnode.com
John Cronin, Executive Chairman	Tel: [phone]
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe NOMAD and Joint Broker
Andrew Craig / Richard Salmond Beaufort Securities Limited Joint Broker Jon Belliss	Tel: [phone] Tel: [phone]
Walbrook PR (Investor Relations)	[e-mail]
Paul Cornelius / Nick Rome	Tel: [phone]

 

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