Hotel Chocolat Group PLC Grant of SAYE Options and PDMR Transaction (9028E)
November 11 2020 - 2:00AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMHOTC
RNS Number : 9028E
Hotel Chocolat Group PLC
11 November 2020
11 November 2020
Hotel Chocolat Group plc
(" Hotel Chocolat ", the "Company" or the "Group")
Grant of SAYE Options and PDMR Transaction
Hotel Chocolat announces that on 10 November 2020, under its
Save As You Earn ("SAYE") Plan, the Company granted options over
631,246 ordinary shares of 0.1p in the Company ("Ordinary Shares")
with an exercise price of GBP2.78 per Ordinary Share (the
"Options").
The SAYE Plan allows all employees of the Group to make regular
monthly contributions up to an agreed maximum, for a three-year
period, after which time employees generally have a six month
period in which to utilise the lump sum to purchase Ordinary Shares
in the Group, at a pre-agreed price. The Options granted represent
a c.85% increase in terms of the total monthly savings compared to
the award last year.
Included in the Options granted were 3,884 Options granted to
Matt Pritchard (Chief Financial Officer), a Director and PDMR of
the Company.
For further information:
+ 44 (0) 20 7638
Hotel Chocolat Group plc c/o Citigate 9571
Angus Thirlwell, Co-founder and Chief
Executive Officer
Peter Harris, Co-founder and Development
Director
Matt Pritchard, Chief Financial Officer
Liberum Capital Limited - Nominated Advisor and + 44 (0) 20 3100
Broker 2222
Clayton Bush
James Greenwood
+ 44 (0) 20 7638
Citigate Dewe Rogerson - Financial PR 9571
Angharad Couch
Ellen Wilton
Kieran Farthing
Notes to Editors:
Hotel Chocolat is a premium British chocolatier with a strong
and distinctive brand. The business was founded in 1993 by Angus
Thirlwell and Peter Harris and has traded under the Hotel Chocolat
brand since 2003. The Group sells its products online and through a
network of 130 locations in the UK and abroad. The Group has one
restaurant in the UK and a cocoa estate and hotel in Saint Lucia.
The Group was admitted to trading on AIM in 2016.
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 Matthew Robert Phillip Pritchard
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2 Reason for the notification
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a) Position/status Chief Financial Officer
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b) Initial notification Initial Notification
/Amendment
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3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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a) Name Hotel Chocolat Group plc
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b) LEI 213800B4D3J15PZHVY29
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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
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a) Description of the Hotel Chocolat Group plc ordinary
financial instrument, shares of 0.1p each
type of instrument
Identification code ISIN: GB00BY23CB04
b) Nature of the transaction Grant of Options
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c) Price(s) and volume(s)
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Price(s) Volume(s)
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GBP2.78 3,884
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d) Aggregated information
n/a (single transaction)
- Aggregated volume
- Price
e) Date of the transaction 10 November 2020
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f) Place of the transaction Outside a trading venue
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