James Halstead PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (0645J)

TIDMJHD

RNS Number : 0645J

James Halstead PLC

23 June 2017

James Halstead plc 23 June 2017

("James Halstead" or the "Company")

(AIM:JHD)

PDMR Exercise of Share Options

James Halstead plc (AIM: JHD) announces that on 23 June 2017 the Company issued 60,000 ordinary shares of 5 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") following the exercise of share options under the James Halstead Share Option Plan by Geoffrey Halstead, Chairman and a PDMR of the Company, at an exercise price of 105.25 pence per share.

Mr Halstead retained beneficial ownership of the new Ordinary Shares.

Following the issue of the new Ordinary Shares, the number of Ordinary Shares in issue will increase to 207,864,608.

For the purpose of the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules ("DTRs"), the issued ordinary share capital of the Company following this allotment consists of 207,864,608 Ordinary shares with voting rights attached. There are no Shares held in treasury.

This total voting rights figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, James Halstead under the DTRs.

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

 
        Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
   1     / person closely associated 
 a)     Name                      Mr Geoffrey Halstead 
 2      Reason for the notification 
 a)     Position/status           Classified as PDMRs of the Company 
 b)     Initial notification      Initial Notification 
         /Amendment 
 3      Details of the issuer, emission allowance market 
         participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction 
         monitor 
 a)     Name                      James Halstead plc 
 b)     LEI                       213800C8FFBYV06UL498 
 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               Ordinary Shares of 5p each 
         of the financial 
         instrument,               GB00B0LS8535 
         type of instrument 
         Identification 
         code 
 b)     Nature of the             Exercise of Share Options 
         transaction 
 c)     Price(s) and               Exercise Prices                Volume(s) 
         volume(s)                   per share 
                                               105.25 pence        60,000 
 d)     Aggregated information 
   - Aggregated 
    volume                          60,000 
   - Price                           105.25p 
 e)     Date of the               23 June 2017 
         transaction 
 f)     Place of the              London Stock Exchange - AIM 
         transaction 
 

Name of authorised official of issuer responsible for making notification:

David Drillingcourt, Company Secretary to James Halstead plc

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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