Hotel Chocolat Group PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (0186H)

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RNS Number : 0186H

Hotel Chocolat Group PLC

01 December 2020

1 December 2020

HOTEL CHOCOLAT GROUP PLC

("Hotel Chocolat", the "Company" or the "Group")

PDMR Dealing

The Company announces that on 30 November 2020 Chief Operating Officer, Matt Margereson, a PDMR of the Company, sold 25,690 ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 395 pence per Ordinary Share. Mr Margereson's interest is now in 227,875 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.18% of the Company's issued share capital.

 
                    Previous Holding                                      Resultant Holding 
 PDMR                 Number   Percentage   Ordinary          Price         Number   Percentage 
                 of Ordinary    of issued     Shares    of Ordinary    of Ordinary    of issued 
                      Shares        share       sold         Shares         Shares        share 
                                  capital                      sold                     capital 
-------------  -------------  -----------  ---------  -------------  -------------  ----------- 
 Matthew 
  Margereson         253,565        0.20%     25,690           395p        227,875        0.18% 
 

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail.

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 PAUL MARGERESON 
      ---------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 2     Reason for the notification 
      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)    Position/status                               CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER 
      ---------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 b)    Initial notification                     INITIAL NOTIFICATION 
        /Amendment 
      ---------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 3     Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
        auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)    Name                                     HOTEL CHOCOLAT GROUP PLC 
      ---------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 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 
      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 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                SALE OF ORDINARY SHARES 
      ---------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 c)    Price(s) and volume(s) 
                                                                     ----------------- 
                                                  Price(s)            Volume(s) 
                                                                     ----------------- 
     GBP3.95                                                          25,690 
    ---------------------------------------------------------------  ----------------- 
 
 d)    Aggregated information 
 
  - Aggregated volume                      n/a single transaction 
 
  - Price 
 
 e)    Date of the transaction                  30 November 2020 
      ---------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 f)    Place of the transaction                 LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AIM 
      ---------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 

For further information:

 
                                                             + 44 (0) 20 
 Hotel Chocolat Group plc                    c/o Citigate     7638 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                         + 44 (0) 20 
  Advisor and Broker                                          3100 2222 
 Clayton Bush 
 James Greenwood 
 
 Citigate Dewe Rogerson - Financial                          + 44 (0) 20 
  PR                                                          7638 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.

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