Universe Group PLC Exercise of Options and Total Voting Rights (3313M)

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RNS Number : 3313M

Universe Group PLC

27 July 2017

27 July 2017

AIM: UNG

Universe Group plc

("Universe" or the "Company")

Exercise of Options and Total Voting Rights

Universe Group plc (UNG.L), a leading developer and supplier of point of sale, payment and on-line loyalty systems, announces that it has applied for the admission to trading on AIM ("Admission") of 250,000 new ordinary shares of 1p each ("Ordinary Shares") following an exercise of options over Ordinary Shares by a former employee of the Company. These new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares and Admission is expected to be effective on 2 August 2017.

Following the Exercise, a total of 23,894,000 options over Ordinary Shares (representing approximately 10.29 per cent. of the Company's enlarged issued share capital) remain outstanding.

The Company advises that, following Admission, the Company's issued share capital is 232,223,935 Ordinary Shares. The above figure of 232,223,935 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 FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Contacts:

 
     Universe Group plc                  Tel: [phone] 
      Robert Goddard, Chairman 
      Jeremy Lewis, Chief 
      Executive 
      Daryl Paton, Chief Financial        Tel: [phone] 
      Officer 
      finnCap (Nominated Adviser 
      & Broker)                           Tel: [phone] 
      Stuart Andrews (Corporate 
      Finance) 
      Richard Chambers (Corporate 
      Broking) 
      IFC Advisory (Financial 
      PR & IR) 
      Tim Metcalfe 
      Heather Armstrong 
 

About Universe Group plc

Universe provides some of the world's leading retailers with point of sale, payment and loyalty solutions.

The Group's solutions are based on its own proprietary software and are offered out of the Cloud on a software as a service model with its data centres processing over 5 billion transactions every year. For further information,

please see www.universeplc.com.

This information is provided by RNS

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