Ultimate Products plc

("Ultimate Products", "Company" or "the Group")

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Ultimate Products, the owner of a number of leading homeware brands including Salter (the UK's oldest houseware brand, est.1760) and Beldray (est.1872), announces that on 27 September 2024, David Bloomfield, Supply Chain Director, and his wife, Susan Bloomfield, each sold 60,000 ordinary shares of 0.25p each ("Ordinary Shares") in the Company at a price of 136 pence per Ordinary Share.

The Company also announces that it has today been informed that Duncan Singleton, Trading Director, has effected the following transactions:

1.     on 24 September 2024, Duncan effected a "Bed and ISA" by selling 14,409 Ordinary Shares from his dealing account and immediately repurchasing the same number of Ordinary Shares into his ISA, each at a price of £1.40 per Ordinary Share; and

2.     on 25 September 2024, Duncan effected a "Bed and ISA" by selling 14,383 Ordinary Shares from his dealing account and immediately repurchasing the same number of Ordinary Shares into his ISA, each at a price of £1.38 per Ordinary Share.

Further details of the above dealings are set out at the end of this announcement.

The person responsible for arranging the release of this announcement on behalf of the Company is Chris Dent, CFO.

For more information, please contact:

Ultimate Products +44 (0) 161 627 1400

Andrew Gossage, CEO

Chris Dent, CFO

Shore Capital +44 (0) 20 7408 4090

Mark Percy

Malachy McEntyre

David Coaten
Harry Davies-Ball

Isobel Jones

Cavendish Capital Markets Limited + 44 (0)20 7220 0500

Carl Holmes (Corporate Finance)

Matt Goode (Corporate Finance)

Abigail Kelly (Corporate Finance)

Charlie Combe (ECM)

Sodali & Co +44 (0) 207 250 1446

Rob Greening

Sam Austrums

Oliver Banks

Notes to Editors

Ultimate Products is the owner of a number of leading homeware brands including Salter (the UK's oldest houseware brand, established in 1760) and Beldray (a laundry, floor care, heating and cooling brand that was established in 1872). According to its market research, nearly 80% of UK households own at least one of the Group's products.

Ultimate Products sells to over 300 retailers across 38 countries, and specialises in five product categories: Small Domestic Appliances; Housewares; Laundry; Audio; and Heating and Cooling. Other brands include Progress (cookware and bakeware), Kleeneze (laundry and floorcare), Petra (small domestic appliances) and Intempo (audio).

The Group's products are sold to a broad cross-section of both large national and international multi-channel retailers as well as smaller national retail chains, incorporating discount retailers, supermarkets, general retailers and online retailers.

Founded in 1997, Ultimate Products employs over 370 staff, a significant number of whom have joined via the Group's graduate development scheme, and is headquartered in Oldham, Greater Manchester, where it has design, sales, marketing, buying, quality assurance, support functions and warehouse facilities across two sites. Manor Mill, the Group's head office, includes a spectacular 20,000 sq ft showroom that showcases each of its brands. In addition, the Group has an office and showroom in Guangzhou, China and in Paris, France.

Please note that Ultimate Products is not the owner of Russell Hobbs. The company currently has licence agreements in place granting it an exclusive licence to use the "Russell Hobbs" trademark for cookware and laundry (NB this does not include Russell Hobbs electrical appliances).

For further information, please visit www.upplc.com.  

Pursuant to the notification obligations in accordance with Article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR)