REG - Comptoir Group PLC - Grant of Options

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RNS Number : 2903E  Comptoir Group PLC  28 June 2023

Comptoir Group Plc

 

("Comptoir", the "Group" or the "Company")

 

 

Grant of Options

 

Comptoir Group Plc announces that the Company's Remuneration Committee has
granted options over 2,400,000 Ordinary Shares in the Company to Nick
Ayerst, who last year was appointed the new CEO and an Executive Director of
the Company (the "New Options"). The New Options have been issued as part of
Nick's standard remuneration package with the Company.

 

1,078,167 of the New Options are granted under the rules of the Company's CSOP
Share Scheme (with the balance being issued as unapproved options); all the
New Options have an exercise price of 5.6p and vest in one tranche over three
years with a vesting date of April 2026. They are conditional on the continued
employment of the recipient at the date of exercise.

 

Following the grant of the New Options, the Company has a total of 7,170,000
shares under option representing 5.9% per cent of the Company's total issued
share capital. Nick Ayerst holds no other options or ordinary shares in the
Company.

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Enquiries:

 

 Comptoir Group plc                                                       via Camarco

 Beatrice Lafon, Non-Executive Chair

 Nick Ayerst, CEO

 Michael Toon, FD

 finnCap Ltd (Nominated Adviser and Broker)                               0207 220 0500

 Simon Hicks

 Camarco (Media Contact)

 Jennifer Renwick
 jennifer.renwick@camarco.co.uk (mailto:jennifer.renwick@camarco.co.uk)

About Comptoir Group

 

Comptoir Group PLC owns and operates 26 Lebanese restaurants, six of which are
franchised, based predominately in the UK. The flagship brand of the group,
Comptoir Libanais, is a collection of 20 restaurants located across London and
nationwide, including cities such as Manchester, Bath, Birmingham, Oxford and
Exeter.

 

The name Comptoir Libanais means Lebanese Counter and is a place where guests
can eat casually and enjoy Middle Eastern food, served with warm and friendly
hospitality, just like back home.

 

The Group also operates Shawa, serving traditional shawarmas through a counter
service model in Westfield and Bluewater shopping centres, Yalla-Yalla with
branches near Oxford Circus and in Soho, and entertainment venue Kenza,
located in Devonshire Square, London.

 

The group has expanded internationally with its franchise partners HMSHOST,
with restaurants in the Netherlands, Qatar and Dubai.

 

 1.  Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely
     associated
 a)  Name                                                         Nick Ayerst
 2.  Reason for the Notification
 a)  Position/status                                              Chief Executive Officer
 b)  Initial notification/Amendment                               Initial notification
 3.  Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
     platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
 a)  Name                                                         Comptoir Group plc
 b)  LEI                                                          213800QQ62TS1W4K3I50
 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 1p each
     Identification code                                          GB00BYT1L205
 b)  Nature of the transaction                                    Issue of Options
 c)  Price(s) and volume(s)                                       Price(s)  Volume(s)
                                                                  nil       2,400,000
 d)  Aggregated information:

     · Aggregated volume                                          As in 4c) above

     · Price
 e)  Date of the transaction                                      28 June 2023
 f)  Place of the transaction                                     Outside a trading venue

d)

Aggregated information:

· Aggregated volume

· Price

 

As in 4c) above

 

e)

Date of the transaction

28 June 2023

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

 

 

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