M. P. Evans Group PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding and Total Voting Rights (1807O)

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RNS Number : 1807O

M. P. Evans Group PLC

15 May 2018

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE EU MARKET ABUSE REGULATION OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

M.P. Evans Group Plc

(the "Company" or "M.P. Evans")

PDMR transaction

and

Total Voting Rights

PDMR transaction

The Company has been notified of the exercise of share options today under the executive share-option scheme by Mr TRJ Price, a director of the Company. Mr TRJ Price exercised his share options over 75,000 shares of 10p each in the capital of the Company ("Shares") granted at 159.5p per Share and due to expire on 24 November 2018. Accordingly, the Company issued Mr TRJ Price 75,000 Shares.

Simultaneously, Mr TRJ Price sold 43,000 Shares at 750p per Share in order to fund the exercise cost of the share options and the associated tax liabilities. In addition, Mr TRJ Price transferred the remaining 32,000 Shares to Mrs JA Price, Mr TRJ Price's wife.

Total Voting Rights

Following the above transactions the Company has 55,840,281 Shares in issue. All of the Shares have equal voting rights and there are no Shares held in Treasury.

The above figure of 55,840,281 represents the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 
  1   Details of the person discharging managerial 
       responsibilities/person closely associated 
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 a)   Name                             Tristan Price 
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 2    Reason for the notification 
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 a)   Position/status                  Chief Executive Officer 
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 b)   Initial notification/Amendment   Initial notification 
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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                             M.P.Evans Group PLC 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 b)   LEI                               2138003IBXJUCR4SZG26 
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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                   Shares of 10 pence per share 
       the financial                    in M.P.Evans Group PLC ("Shares"). 
       instrument, type 
       of instrument                    Identification code: ISIN 
                                        GB007538100 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 b)   Nature of the                    Exercise of options over 
       transaction                      Shares 
                                        Sale of Shares 
                                        Transfer of Shares 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 c)   Price(s) and volume(s) 
                                         Exercise of share options 
                                         over Shares: 
                                         Price(s) 159.5p (exercise 
                                         price) 
                                         Volume(s) 75,000 
 
                                         Sale of Shares: 
                                         Price(s) 750p 
                                         Volume(s) 43,000 
 
                                         Transfer of Shares: 
                                         Price(s) Nil 
                                         Volume(s) 32,000 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 d)   Aggregated information           N/A 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 e)   Date of transaction              15 May 2018 
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 f)   Place of transaction             London Stock Exchange (XLON); AIM 
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  1   Details of the person discharging managerial 
       responsibilities/person closely associated 
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 a)   Name                             Judith Price 
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 2    Reason for the notification 
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 a)   Position/status                  Person Closely Associated 
                                        with the Chief Executive 
                                        Officer 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 b)   Initial notification/Amendment   Initial notification 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance 
       market participant, auction platform, auctioneer 
       or auction monitor 
---  --------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Name                             M.P.Evans Group PLC 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 b)   LEI                               2138003IBXJUCR4SZG26 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 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                   Shares of 10 pence per share 
       the financial                    in M.P.Evans Group PLC ("Shares"). 
       instrument, type 
       of instrument                    Identification code: ISIN 
                                        GB007538100 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 b)   Nature of the                    Acquisition of Shares 
       transaction 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)           Acquisition of Shares: 
                                        Price(s) Nil 
                                        Volume(s) 32,000 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 d)   Aggregated information           N/A 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 e)   Date of transaction              15 May 2018 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 f)   Place of transaction             Outside a trading venue 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------ 
 

15 May 2018

Enquiries:

   M.P. Evans Group PLC    Telephone: [phone] 

Peter Hadsley-Chaplin, Chairman

Tristan Price, Chief executive

Matthew Coulson, Finance director

   Peel Hunt LLP                       Telephone: [phone] 

Dan Webster

George Sellar

Nicole McDougall

   Hudson Sandler                    Telephone: [phone] 

Charlie Jack

Bertie Berger

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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