Director / PDMR Shareholding

Van Elle Holdings PLC

18 May 2026

 

Van Elle Holdings plc

('Van Elle', the 'Company' or the 'Group')

18 May 2026

Director / PDMR Shareholding

Van Elle Holdings plc (AIM:VANL) the UK's largest ground engineering contractor, announces it has been notified of the following transactions over ordinary shares of 2 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares").

Graeme Campbell, Chief Financial Officer, has exercised options pursuant to the Company's Long Term Incentive Scheme ("LTIP") in respect of 242,852 Ordinary Shares (the "LTIP Awards") at an exercise price of 2 pence per share.  Mr Campbell subsequently sold 109,843 Ordinary Shares to meet the cost of the exercise of the LTIP Awards and associated personal taxation liabilities. 

The LTIP Awards have been satisfied by way of transfer from the Employee Benefit Trust.

Following these transactions, Graeme Campbell and those persons closely associated with him, are interested in 208,009 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 0.19% of the Company's issued share capital.

The information below (set out in accordance with the requirements of EU Market Abuse Regulation) provides further detail:

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a.	Name	Mr Graeme Campbell
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	Van Elle Holdings plc
b.	LEI	213800LQC6YL8KJT1Y18
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 2p each ISIN: GB00BYX4TP46
b.	Nature of the transaction	1. Exercise of options under LTIP 2. Sale of Ordinary Shares
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)		Price(s)	Volume(s)
			1.     2.0p 2.     50.5p	242,852 109,843
d.	Aggregated information -       Aggregated volume -       Price	N/A
e.	Date of the transaction	11 May 2026
f.	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM

For further information, please contact:

Van Elle Holdings plc Mark Cutler, Chief Executive Officer Graeme Campbell, Chief Financial Officer	Via Walbrook
Peel Hunt LLP (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) Ed Allsopp Charlotte Sutcliffe Tom Graham	Tel: [phone]
Singer Capital Markets (Joint Broker) James Serjeant Dan Ingram	Tel: [phone]
Walbrook PR Limited	Tel: [phone] or [e-mail]
Tom Cooper Nick Rome	07971 221 972 07748 325 236

About Van Elle Holdings plc:

Van Elle Holdings is the UK's largest specialist geotechnical engineering contractor. Formed in 1984 and listed on AIM in 2016, the Company provides a wide range of ground engineering techniques and services including ground investigation, general and specialist piling, rail geotechnical engineering, modular foundations, and ground improvement and stabilisation services.

Van Elle operates through three divisions: General Piling, Specialist Piling and Rail, and Ground Engineering Services; and is focused on diverse end markets including residential and housing, infrastructure and regional construction - across which the Group has completed more than 20,000 projects over the last 35 years.

 

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