Grant of Share Options

Haydale Graphene Industries PLC

26 April 2023

 

For immediate release

26 April 2023

Haydale Graphene Industries plc

("Haydale", "the Company" or the "Group")

Grant of share options

Haydale (AIM: HAYD), the global advanced materials group, announces that on 25 April 2023 the Company approved the following:

1.    under the 2020 EMI Scheme ("2020 EMI Scheme"), the grant of options to staff of the Group, over an aggregate 1,750,000 ordinary shares of 2p each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares"); and

2.    under the Haydale Technologies, Inc ("HTI") Stock Appreciation Rights Plan 2020 ("2020 SAR"), the grant of stock appreciation rights ("Stock Appreciation Rights") to an employee of the Group's wholly owned US subsidiary, HTI, over an aggregate 1,000,000 Ordinary Shares.

(The 2020 EMI Scheme and the 2020 SAR , together the "Share Schemes". The new Options or Stock Appreciation Rights  granted under the Share Schemes, together the "April 2023 Grants"). The April 2023 Grants represents approximately 0.35% of the Company's issued ordinary share capital.

Background to the April 2023 Grants

The Company adopted the Share Schemes to enable it to retain and incentivise staff and to reward them for the achievement of its longer-term objectives. The Share Schemes have certain performance criteria to ensure that value is created for shareholders before any value is delivered to Directors and key staff.   The April 2023 Grants will extend the options to those that have joined since the previous grant of Options in November 2022. 

Terms of the April 2023 Grants

All of the April 2023 Grants have an exercise price of 2.25p per Ordinary Share (being a 42% premium to the closing mid-market price of the Company's Ordinary Shares on 25 April 2023, (the day of the approval of the April 2023 Grants) and can only be exercised between the third and tenth anniversary of the awards. The proportion of the awards made by the April 2023 Grants that are capable of vesting is dependent on certain performance criteria, directly linked to the performance of the Company's share price over the period to 30 September 2026 as follows:

% of April 2023 Grants subject to the Performance Condition	Performance Condition
30%	For a period of 15 consecutive dealing days, commencing after the date of the April 2023 Grants and ending on or before the 30 September 2024, the closing price of the Ordinary Shares exceeds 4p (four) per Ordinary Share.
30%	For a period of 15 consecutive dealing days, commencing after the date of the April 2023 Grants and ending on or before the 30 September 2025, the closing price of the Ordinary Shares exceeds 6p (six) per Ordinary Share.
40%	For a period of 15 consecutive dealing days, commencing after the date of the April 2023 Grants and ending on or before the 30 September 2026, the closing price of the Ordinary Shares exceeds 8p (eight) per Ordinary Share.

There are no other vesting criteria for the April 2023 Grants. If the share price does not reach the target price by their respective dates, that portion of the award will lapse.

The Company's Remuneration Committee retains the ability to amend the performance conditions for the April 2023 Grants and for future grants to ensure that such grants achieve the stated purpose.

Following the April 2023 Grants, the Company's total number of Options and SARs outstanding as at the date of this announcement is 101,775,000 representing approximately 12.95% of the Company's existing issued share capital and 9.90% on a fully diluted basis including all outstanding warrants.

The number of Ordinary Shares currently in issue is 785,852,475 and it is this number that has been used to calculate the above percentage shareholdings.

For further information:

Haydale Graphene Industries plc
David Banks, Non-Executive Chair	Tel: [phone]
	www.haydale.com
finnCap (Nominated Adviser & Broker)
Julian Blunt/Edward Whiley, Corporate Finance Andrew Burdis, ECM	Tel: [phone]

Notes to Editors

Haydale is a global technologies and materials group that facilitates the integration of graphene and other nanomaterials into the next generation of commercial technologies and industrial materials.  With expertise in graphene, silicon carbide and other nanomaterials, Haydale is able to deliver improvements in electrical, thermal and mechanical properties, as well as toughness.  Haydale has granted patents for its technologies in Europe, USA, Australia, Japan and China and operates from six sites in the UK, USA and the Far East.

For more information please visit: www.haydale.com

Twitter: @haydalegraphene

 

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