Director/PDMR Shareholding

15 March 2017

 

Genus plc

 

Director/PDMR Shareholding

 

Genus plc (LSE: GNS) announces that, further to the vesting of conditional nil-cost options on 15 March 2017 under the Genus 2004 Performance Share Plan (the 'PSP') as listed in the table below, a member of the Genus Executive Leadership Team ('GELT') sold ordinary shares in Genus today on the London Stock Exchange partly to offset income tax and social security liabilities due on the exercise.  A total of 2,951 ordinary shares have been retained by the GELT member. 

 

The below notification gives further details of the number of share options exercised and ordinary shares sold today.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Genus:

Cara Crichton, Deputy Company Secretary                                                                           Tel: +44 (0)1256 347100

 

 

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a.	Name	Dr Jonathan Lightner
2.	Reason for the notification
a.	Position/status	Chief R&D and Scientific Officer
b.	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.	Name	Genus plc
b.	LEI	54930022EOITNKSIGH56
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 the Financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Ordinary shares of 10p each     GB0002074580
b.	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of 9,683 nil-cost options under the PSP.
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)   Volume(s) 0p 9,683
d.	Aggregated information ·     Aggregated volume ·     Price	n/a
e.	Date of the transaction	2017-03-15
f.	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, Main Market (XLON)
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 the Financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code		Ordinary shares of 10p each     GB0002074580
b.	Nature of the transaction	Sale of 6,732 shares arising from the exercise of nil-cost options under the PSP partly to offset income tax and social security liabilities due on the exercise.  The balance of 2,951 shares following the exercise has been retained by Dr Jonathan Lightner.
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)   Volume(s) 1,813.94p 6,732
d.	Aggregated information ·     Aggregated volume ·     Price	n/a
e.	Date of the transaction	2017-03-15
f.	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, Main Market (XLON)