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AFC EnergyAnnouncement

28/04/2016 14:10

RNS Number : 6484W
AFC Energy Plc
28 April 2016
28 April 2016
AFC Energy PLC
("AFC Energy" or the "Company")
Result of Annual General Meeting and Grant of Options
under Sharesave Scheme
Result of Annual General Meeting
AFC Energy (AIM: AFC), the industrial fuel cell power company, is pleased to announce that, at the Company's Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed.
A copy of the presentation given to shareholders at the AGM will be available on the Company's website at www.afcenergy.com.
Grant of Share Options
The Company today agreed to grant certain employees options over 399,537 ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") (the "Options"). The Options have been granted to participating employees under the rules of the AFC Energy plc Sharesave Scheme (the "Scheme"). The Scheme is an all-employee share option scheme, which was approved by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and was introduced to encourage wider employee share ownership of the Company. 
The Options are exercisable at a price of 12.20 pence and will vest on the third anniversary of the date of grant of the Options. The Options will be exercisable between the third and tenth anniversary of the date of grant but are otherwise unconditional. 
Following the issue of Options there will be options over 13,855,000 Ordinary Shares representing approximately 4.5% of the current issued share capital of the Company, warrants over 6,947,800 Ordinary Shares representing approximately 2.3% of the current issued share capital of the Company and Scheme Options over 970,884 Ordinary Shares representing approximately 0.3% of the current issued share capital of the Company. 
For further information, please contact:
AFC Energy plc
Adam Bond (Chief Executive Officer)
+44 (0) 20 3697 1209
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe - Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker
Andrew Craig
Richard Salmond
+44 (0) 20 7894 7000
M C Peat & Co LLP - Joint Broker
Charlie Peat
+44 (0) 20 7104 2334
Lionsgate Communications - Public Relations
Jonathan Charles
Rachel Rigby
+44 (0) 20 3697 1209
About AFC Energy
AFC Energy plc has developed and successfully operated an alkaline fuel cell system ("KORE"), which converts hydrogen into "clean" electricity. AFC Energy's key project POWER-UPdemonstrated the world's largest operational alkaline fuel cell system at Air Products' industrial gas plant in Stade, Germany in January 2016. The Company is now looking to build upon an already established pipeline of commercial opportunities and drive the findings from the development phase of the technology into a technically optimised and commercially relevant fuel cell system. For further information, please visit our website:www.afcenergy.com

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