REG - Best of the Best PLC - Director/PDMR Shareholding & Rule 2.9 Announcement

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19/07/2023 16:00

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RNS Number : 5615G  Best of the Best PLC  19 July 2023

Best of the Best plc

("Best of the Best", "BOTB", "the Company" or "the Group")

Exercise of Options, Director/PDMR Shareholding and Total Voting Rights

Rule 2.9 Announcement

Best of the Best plc (LSE: BOTB), the provider of online competitions to win
cars and other prizes, announces that it has today issued and allotted 94,352
new ordinary shares of 5 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares")
pursuant to the exercise of options by Ben Hughes, a Director of the Board and
the Marketing Director of BOTB and another senior employee of the Company, in
connection with the recommended and mandatory cash offer made by Globe Invest
Limited ("GIL"), to acquire all of the  issued and to be issued shares in the
capital of BOTB ("BOTB Shares") not already owned by GIL (the "Offer").

The following transactions occurred for Ben Hughes as shown below:

 Director/ PDMR  Position            Number of Options over Ordinary Shares exercised  Exercise price per Ordinary Share  Options remaining after exercise  Share Plan
 Ben Hughes      Marketing Director  9,352                                             £2.25                              -                                 EMI
                 41,500                                                                £3.85                              -                                 EMI
                 28,500                                                                £3.85                              -                                 BOTB Unapproved Share Option Scheme
 Total                               79,352

 

Ben Hughes and his PCAs will hold 119,352 Ordinary Shares following admission
of the new Ordinary Shares representing 1.41 per cent. of the issued share
capital of the Company.

Admission

Following the above transactions, application has been made for the 94,352 new
Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") and dealings
are expected to commence on 25 July 2023. The new Ordinary Shares will rank
pari passu with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares.

The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue following Admission will be
8,461,376. Accordingly, the figure of 8,461,376 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.

Rule 2.9 disclosure

In accordance with Rule 2.9 of the Code, BOTB confirms that following
Admission pursuant to the exercise of the options referenced above, expected
on 25 July 2023 it will have in issue 8,461,376 ordinary shares of 5 pence
each. The International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) for the
ordinary shares is GB00B16S3505.

 

 

 

Enquiries:

 

 Best of the Best plc                                     William Hindmarch, Chief Executive   T: 020 7371 8866

                                                          Rupert Garton, Commercial Director

 finnCap                                                  Corporate Finance                    T: 020 7220 0500

 (Rule 3 Adviser, Nominated Adviser and Broker to BOTB)   Carl Holmes

                                                          Teddy Whiley

                                                          Alice Lane

 

 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely

    associated

 a)   Name                                                         Ben Hughes

 2    Reason for the notification

 a)   Position/status                                              PDMR - Executive Director

 b)   Initial notification /Amendment                              Initial Notification

 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction

    platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

 a)   Name                                                         Best of the Best plc

 b)   LEI                                                          213800A7RTSCF8IWQ247

 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   Ordinary shares of 5 pence each in the Company

      Identification code

                                                                   GB00B16S3505
 b)   Nature of the transaction                                    ·    Exercise of awards under the BOTB EMI option Scheme

                                                                   ·    Exercise of awards under the BOTB EMI option Scheme

                                                                   ·    Exercise of awards under the BOTB Unapproved share option Scheme

                                                                   .
 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)  Volume(s)

                                                                   235p      9,352 (under the EMI)

                                                                             41,500 (under the EMI)

                                                                         28,500 (under the BOTB Unapproved share option scheme)
                                                                   385p

                                                                   385p

 
 d)   Aggregated information

                                                                   N/a single transaction

      - Aggregated volume

      - Price

 e)   Date of the transaction                                      19 July 2023

 f)   Place of the transaction                                     London

 

d)

 

Aggregated information

 

 

- Aggregated volume

- Price

 

N/a single transaction

 

 

 

 

e)

 

Date of the transaction

 

19 July 2023

f)

 

Place of the transaction

 

London

 

 

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