17 December 2015
Topps Tiles plc (the "Company")
Director/PDMR shareholdings / EBT Share Purchase / Total Voting Rights
The Company announces that, following the Company's results for the year ended 3 October 2015, the Remuneration Committee has satisfied itself that share awards under the Topps Tiles 2013 Long Term Incentive Plan in the form of nil cost options over ordinary shares of 3.33 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") ("LTIP Awards") vested on 1st December 2015 following achievement of the performance criteria.
Transactions by PDMRs
Following the vesting of the LTIP Awards, the following PDMRs exercised and sold the following LTIP Awards at an average price of 152.86 pence per Ordinary Share:
Director / PDMR |
Number of LTIP Awards exercised |
Date of exercise of LTIP Awards |
Number of LTIP Awards sold |
Date of sale of LTIP Awards |
Rob Parker (Chief Financial Officer) |
200,000 |
14 December 2015 |
200,000 |
15 December 2015 |
Richard Carter (Operations Director) |
406,760 |
11 December 2015 |
406,760 |
15 December 2015 |
Brian Linnington (Commercial Director) |
277,725 |
11 December 2015 |
277,725 |
15 December 2015 |
Rob Parker will now hold 101,571 Ordinary Shares representing 0.05% of the Enlarged Issued Share Capital of the Company. As a result, the combined holding of Rob Parker and Danielle Parker (spouse of Rob Parker and a connected person) will be 204,309 Ordinary Shares representing 0.11% of the Enlarged Issued Share Capital of the Company.
EBT Share Purchase
The Topps Tiles Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT") has acquired 654,407 of the share option sales disclosed in the table above. The EBT now holds 1,453,495 Ordinary Shares.
Admission of New Ordinary Shares
The Company announces that application has been made to the UK Listing Authority for 884,485 new Ordinary Shares ("New Ordinary Shares"), which will rank pari passu in all respects with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares, to be admitted to the Official List maintained by the UK Listing Authority and to the London Stock Exchange for the New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on its Main Market for listed securities, with dealings in the New Ordinary Shares expected to commence on or around 21 December 2015.
Total Voting Rights
Following the issue of the New Ordinary Shares, the Company's total issued share capital will consist of 194,593,022 Ordinary Shares with one voting right per share. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. The EBT has waived its right to exercise its voting rights and to receive dividends in respect of 1,453,495 Ordinary Shares. Accordingly, following the issue of the New Ordinary Shares, the total number of voting rights in the Company will be 193,139,527 ("Enlarged Issued Share Capital"). This figure 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.
This notification is made in accordance with DTR 3.1.4 R (1)
Stuart Davey Company Secretary Topps Tiles plc |
