Grant of options and PDMR Dealing

Animalcare Group PLC

23 December 2025

 

23 December 2025

ANIMALCARE GROUP PLC

("Animalcare" or the "Company")

Grant of options and PDMR Dealing

Animalcare Group plc (AIM: ANCR), the international animal health business, announces that, on 22 December 2025, nil-cost options over a total of 294,222 ordinary shares with a nominal value of 20p per share ("the Options") were awarded to Executive Directors and PDMRs of Animalcare under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP"). These are the only award of Options made to Executive Directors under the LTIP during the 2025 financial year.

The awards will vest on the third anniversary of award (22 December 2028) following the assessment of performance criteria based on Earnings Per Share (EPS) growth per annum and Total Shareholder Return (TSR) over the three-year financial period ending 31 December 2027.  The use of EPS and TSR as performance metrics and the associated performance scale is unchanged from the most recent awards that were made in April 2024 for the three-year period ending 31 December 2026. Performance conditions for the Options are as follows:

3-year Earnings Per Share growth per annum	Extent to which EPS tranche will vest
Less than 3%	0%
3%	25%
10%	100%
Between 3% and 10%	Between 25% and 100% on a straight-line basis

Rank of the Company's TSR compared to the Comparator Group	Extent to which the TSR tranche will vest
Upper quartile or above	100%
Between median and upper quartile	Pro rata between 25% and 100% on a ranking basis
Median	25%
Below median	0%

50% of the Option award will be subject to the EPS performance condition and the remaining 50% will be subject to the TSR performance condition. Accordingly, if one of the performance conditions is met but the other is not, the Option award will only vest in part.

After the grant of the Options, the PDMRs set out below hold the following Options and ordinary shares:

PDMR	Options Awarded	Total Options	Ordinary Shares
Jennifer Winter	219,296	633,044	100,650
Chris Brewster	74,926	244,503	283,513

From the 2026 financial year and beyond we expect to make any option grants earlier in the year, usually in May following our annual Preliminary full year results announcement. 

The notification in respect of the Option Awards set out in the Annex below was made subject to the requirements of Article 19 of the UK Market Abuse Regulation:

ANNEX

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Jennifer Winter
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	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	Animalcare Group plc
b)	LEI	213800A7XPQ528RMCC72
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		Options in respect of the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP") over ordinary shares of 20p each
b)	Identification code		GB0032350695
c)	Nature of the transaction(s)		Award of options
d)	Price(s) and volume(s)		Volume(s): Nil cost options over 219,296 shares Price: Nil
e)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price		N/A
f)	Date of the transaction		22 December 2025
g)	Place of the transaction		Outside a trading venue

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Chris Brewster
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			Animalcare Group plc
b)	LEI			213800A7XPQ528RMCC72
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			Options in respect of the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP") over ordinary shares of 20p each
b)	Identification code			GB0032350695
c)	Nature of the transaction(s)			Award of options
d)	Price(s) and volume(s)		Volume(s): Nil-cost options over 74,926 shares  Price: Nil
e)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price		N/A
f)	Date of the transaction		22 December 2025
g)	Place of the transaction		Outside a trading venue

  Enquiries:

Animalcare Group Plc
Jennifer Winter, Chief Executive Officer Chris Brewster, Chief Financial Officer Media/ investor relations	[phone]  [e-mail]
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited (Nominated Adviser & Joint Broker)	[phone]
Ben Maddison Francis North Jason Grossman
Panmure Liberum (Joint Broker)	[phone]
Corporate Finance Freddy Crossley/Emma Earl Corporate Banking Rupert Dearden
Alma Strategic Communications                                            Caroline Forde                                                                       Kinvara Verdon Rose Docherty	[phone] [e-mail]

About Animalcare

 Animalcare Group plc is a UK AIM-listed international veterinary sales and marketing organisation. Animalcare operates in seven European countries as well as Australia, New Zealand and the UAE and exports to approximately 40 countries in Europe and worldwide. The Group is focused on bringing new and innovative products to market through its own development pipeline, partnerships and via acquisition.

For more information about Animalcare, please visit www.animalcaregroup.com.

 

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