Franchise Brands PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (3901C)

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RNS Number : 3901C

Franchise Brands PLC

19 January 2018

19 January 2018

Franchise Brands plc

("Franchise Brands" or the "Company")

Director/PDMR shareholding

Franchise Brands plc (AIM: FRAN) has been informed that David Poutney, Non-Executive Director of the Company, today purchased 490,000 ordinary shares in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 59.5 pence per share.

Following this purchase, Mr Poutney now controls a total of 2,750,791 Ordinary Shares, equivalent to 3.54% of the Company's issued share capital.

Enquiries:

 
                                            +44 (0) 800 
 Franchise Brands plc                        012 6462 
 Stephen Hemsley, Executive Chairman 
 Chris Dent, Chief Financial 
  Officer 
  Julia Choudhury, Corporate Development 
  Director 
 
 Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated         +44 (0) 20 
  Adviser and Joint Broker)                  3328 5656 
 Jeremy Porter/ James Thomas/ 
  Liz Kirchner 
 
 Dowgate Capital Stockbrokers               +44 (0) 20 
  (Joint Broker)                             3903 7715 
 James Serjeant 
 
 MHP Communications (Financial              +44 (0) 20 
  PR)                                        3128 8100 
 Katie Hunt/Ivana Petkova 
 

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 
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 a)   Name                         David Poutney 
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 2    Reason for the notification 
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 a)   Position/status              Non-Executive Director 
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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                         Franchise Brands plc 
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 b)   LEI                          213800CFRX6CJ8LCKN37 
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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               Ordinary shares of 0.5p 
       the financial instrument,    each in Franchise Brands 
       type of instrument           plc 
       Identification               Identification code (ISIN) 
       code                         for Franchise Brands plc 
                                    ordinary shares: GB00BD6P7Y24 
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 b)   Nature of the transaction    Purchase of shares 
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 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)         Price(s)    Volume(s) 
                                     ----------  ---------- 
                                      59.5 
                                       p          490,000 
                                     ----------  ---------- 
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 d)   Aggregated information       n/a 
       - Aggregated volume 
       - Price 
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 e)   Date of the transaction      19 January 2018 
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 f)   Place of the transaction     London Stock Exchange, 
                                    AIM (XLON) 
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The information set out in this announcement is provided in accordance with the requirements of Article 19(3) of the EU Market Abuse Regulation No 596/2014.

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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