Grant of Options and PDMR Notification

RNS Number : 1235O
Purplebricks Group PLC
25 January 2019
 

For immediate release 25 January 2019

Purplebricks Group plc

("Purplebricks" or the "Company"

Grant of options and PDMR notification

Purplebricks Group plc (AIM: PURP), the world's leading hybrid estate agency, announces that on 23 January 2019 options to subscribe for an aggregate 500,000 ordinary shares of £0.01p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares" and the "Options") were granted to James Davies, Chief Financial Officer, a person discharging managerial responsibilities.

 

The Options have been granted under the Employee Share Option Plan and have an exercise price of £1.59, being the closing price of shares at 23 January 2019.  Other than the grant of the Options, neither Mr Davies or his connected persons have any beneficial interest in the Ordinary Shares of the Company.  Following the grant of the Options, Mr Davies holds a total of 1,500,000 unexercised options. 

 

This announcement, including the notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail.

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

 

 

 

James Davies

2

 

Reason for the notification

 

a)

 

Position/status

 

 

Chief Financial Officer

b)

 

Initial notification /Amendment

 

 

Initial notification

3

 

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

 

a)

 

Name

 

 

Purplebricks Group plc

b)

 

LEI

 

 

2138003JWQLI3386BB56

 

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

Ordinary Shares of £0.01 each

 



Identification code

ISIN: GB00BYV2MV74



b)

 

Nature of the transaction

 

 

Grant of options

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)







Price(s)

Volume(s)




£1.59

500,000







d)

 

Aggregated information




- Aggregated volume



500,000

 

- Price

£1.59



e)

 

Date of the transaction

 

 

23 January 2019

f)

 

Place of the transaction

 

 

Outside a trading venue

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Purplebricks

+44 (0) 20 7457 2020

James Davies (CFO and Company Secretary), Adam Kay (Head of Investor Relations)

 

Zeus Capital (NOMAD)

+44 (0) 20 3829 5000

Nicholas How, Benjamin Robertson

 

Peel Hunt (Broker)

+44 (0) 20 7418 8900

Dan Webster, George Sellar

 

Investec Bank (Broker)

+44 (0) 20 7597 5970

Keith Anderson, Carlton Nelson

 

Instinctif Partners

+44 (0) 20 7457 2020

David Simonson, Mark Reed, George Yeomans

 

 

About Purplebricks

 

Purplebricks is the world's leading hybrid real estate agency.  Headquartered in the UK, it also operates in Australia, the US and Canada, and is invested in Homeday.de, the leading hybrid agent in Germany. Purplebricks combines highly experienced and professional Local Property Experts (US: Local Real Estate Experts) and innovative technology to help make the process of selling, buying or letting more convenient, transparent and cost effective.

 

 

 


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