Grant of Options

RNS Number : 5856J
dotDigital Group plc
22 December 2020
 

22 DECEMBER 2020

dotdigital Group Plc

("dotdigital or the Company")

 

 

Grant of Options


dotdigital Group Plc (AIM:DOTD), the leading 'SAAS' provider of an omnichannel marketing automation and customer engagement platform, announces it granted Milan Patel, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, 306,728 options over ordinary shares of 0.5 pence in the Company (the "Options") on 21 December 2020, pursuant to the dotdigital Performance Share Plan 2017.

The Options have a nominal exercise price and represent 0.1% of the Company's total voting rights. These become exercisable subject to hitting defined performance targets and continued employment. The performance measures are based on the Company's total shareholder return and earnings per share in 2023.

Following this grant of Options, the total number of options outstanding in the Company are 4,311,047, representing 1.4% of the Company's total voting rights.

 

 

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

 

1

 

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

 

Name

Milan Patel

 

2

 

Reason for the notification

a)

 

Position/status 

PDMR: Chief Executive Officer

b)

 

Initial notification /Amendment

 

Initial Notification

3

 

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

a)

 

Name

dotdigital Group plc

b)

 

LEI

2138006LZ7HHQ6DWFD42

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 0.5 pence each

 GB00B3W40C23

b)

 

Nature of the transaction

 

Grant of options over Ordinary Shares

 

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

Price(s)

 

Volume(s)

0.5p

306,728

 

 

 

d)

 

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

 

 

 N/A

e)

 

Date of the transaction

 

21 December 2020

 

f)

 

Place of the transaction

 

London Stock Exchange (XLON)

 

 

For further information please contact:

 

dotdigital Group Plc
Milan Patel, CEO
Paraag Amin, CFO

Tel: 020 3953 3072

InvestorRelations@dotdigital.com

 

 

Alma PR (Financial PR)

Josh Royston

David Ison

Kieran Breheny

Tel: 020 3405 0210

dotdigital@almapr.co.uk

 

 

Canaccord Genuity (Nominated Advisor and Joint Broker)
Bobbie Hilliam

Georgina McCooke

Jonathan Barr, Sales

Tel: 020 7523 8000

 

 

finnCap (Joint Broker)
Stuart Andrews, Corporate Finance
Alice Lane, ECM

Rhys Williams, Sales

Tel: 020 7220 0500

 

 

N+1 Singer (Joint Broker)
Shaun Dobson, Head of Corporate Finance

Alex Bond, Corporate Finance

Tel: 020 7496 3000

 

Prior to this announcement's release, the statement contained inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (MAR) (Market Abuse Regulation).

 

 

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