The Mission Marketing Group PLC LTIP Awards (5154Y)

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The Mission Marketing Group PLC

17 May 2016

The Mission Marketing Group plc

LTIP awards

The Mission Marketing Group plc ("the Company" or 'the mission(tm) ', AIM: TMMG), the marketing communications and advertising group, announces the following details of awards of nil-cost options under the TMMG Long Term Incentive Plan (the "LTIP").

The Remuneration Committee of the TMMG Board ("RemCo") has today approved the grant of 1,040,000 new LTIP options to certain Directors and employees, representing 1.2% of the Company's current non-diluted issued share capital. The vesting of these LTIP options is dependent upon achieving levels of profit growth over the three year period of the options, with a sliding scale of vesting dependent upon the level of growth. Maximum vesting will be triggered by compound profit growth of 10% pa or more.

Separately, RemCo has today judged that the profit performance in relation to LTIP options granted in 2013, which were dependent upon profits over the three year period ended on 31 December 2015, was insufficient for those awards to vest when they reach maturity in July 2016. As a consequence, all of the LTIP options granted in 2013 have lapsed.

The following table sets out a summary of the LTIPs awarded to Directors and their resultant holdings:

 
                      Existing   New LTIP      Lapsed   Total LTIP 
                          LTIP    options     options      options 
                       options 
 
 Dylan Bogg             99,500     35,000    (30,000)      104,500 
 James Clifton         139,215     35,000    (56,000)      118,215 
 Robert Day            216,667     50,000   (110,000)      156,667 
 Peter Fitzwilliam     100,000     25,000    (50,000)       75,000 
 Chris Goodwin          72,500     25,000    (35,000)       62,500 
 Giles Lee             222,000     50,000    (70,000)      202,000 
 David Morgan          100,000     20,000    (50,000)       70,000 
 Chris Morris          100,000     20,000    (50,000)       70,000 
 Sue Mullen             42,500     20,000    (22,500)       40,000 
 Fiona Shepherd        110,000     50,000    (50,000)      110,000 
 

The resulting total number of LTIP options in issue following today's grants and lapsing of the 2013 LTIPs is 2,770,000, representing 3.3% of the Company's issued share capital.

The vesting of LTIP options may be satisfied by ordinary shares held by the The Mission Marketing Group Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT") and/or through the issue of new shares. As previously notified, the Directors would prefer to satisfy LTIP commitments by transferring shares held by the EBT rather than diluting all shareholders through the issue of new ordinary shares. The Trustees of the EBT make periodic share purchases as they deem appropriate and, as at the current date, hold 1,418,206 ordinary shares, representing approximately 1.7% of the issued share capital of the Company.

Enquiries:

 
  Peter Fitzwilliam, Finance Director 
   The Mission Marketing Group plc            020 7462 1415 
 
    Geoff Nash/James Thompson (Corporate 
    Finance) 
    Stephen Norcross (Corporate Broking) 
  finnCap Limited                           020 7220 0500 
 

the mission(tm) is a network of entrepreneurial marketing communications Agencies employing over 950 people in the UK, Asia and San Francisco. The Group comprises a complementary mix of integrated generalists, specialists in specific marketing/communications activities and specialists in particular market sectors, all providing award-winning solutions to national and international Clients.

www.themission.co.uk

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