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RNS Number : 9783L  Comptoir Group PLC  13 November 2024

Comptoir Group Plc

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

 

Grant of Options

 

Comptoir Group Plc (AIM: COM), the owner and operator of Lebanese, Middle
Eastern and North African inspired restaurants announces that on the 12(th)
November 2024 the Company's Renumeration Committee granted options ("New
Options") over an aggregate of 6,250,000 ordinary shares ("Ordinary Shares")
of 1 pence each in the Company to PDMRs and other senior members of the team.

 

The following New Options were granted to PDMRs:

 

 Individual          Role                    New Options  Total Share Options (new and existing)

 Ali Aneizi          Non-Executive Director  1,000,000    1,000,000
 Jean-Michel Orieux  Non-Executive Chair     1,000,000    1,000,000
 Nick Ayerst         CEO                     1,200,000    3,600,000
 James Fisher        Finance Director        1,000,000    1,000,000

 

In addition to the above, 2,050,000 New Options were granted to non-PDMR
senior employees.

 

3,050,000 of the New Options are granted under the Company's existing CSOP
Share Scheme, with the remaining 3,200,000 options issued to Ali Aneizi,
Jean-Michel Orieux and Nick Ayerst as unapproved options.

 

All the New Options have an exercise price of 4.15p, being the average share
price over the preceding two weeks, and vest after three years on 12 November
2027, conditional on the continued employment of the recipient at the date of
vesting.

 

Following the grant of the New Options, there are options over a total of
10,820,000 Ordinary Shares in the Company as at the date of this announcement,
representing approximately 8.8% of the Company's existing issued share
capital.

 

Enquiries:

 

 Comptoir Group plc                                                0207 486 1111

 Jean-Michel Orieux, Non-Executive Chair

 Nick Ayerst, CEO
 Cavendish Capital Markets Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)  020 7220 0500

 Corporate Finance: Carl Holmes, Abigail Kelly

 Corporate Broking: Charlie Combe

 

About Comptoir Group

 

Comptoir Group PLC owns and operates 28 Lebanese restaurants, six of which are
franchised, based predominately in the UK. The flagship brand of the group,
Comptoir Libanais, is a collection of 22 restaurants located across London,
nationwide and international Travel Hubs, including cities such as Manchester,
Bath, Birmingham, Oxford, Dubai and Milan.

The name Comptoir Libanais means Lebanese Counter and is a place where guests
can eat casually and enjoy Middle Eastern and North African food, served with
warm and friendly hospitality and a bright vibrant environment.

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

The group has expanded internationally with its franchise partners Avolta and
Areas, with restaurants in the Netherlands, Qatar and UAE and Italy.

 

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging
managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them are set
out below pursuant to the EU Market Abuse regulation.

 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely

    associated

 a)   Name                                                         Ali Aneizi
 2    Reason for the notification
 a)   Position/status                                              Non-Executive Director
 b)   Initial notification /Amendment                              Initial
 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                                     Grant of Options over Ordinary Shares

 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)                                       Price(s)  Volume(s)

                                                            4.15p     1,000,000

 d)   Aggregated information                                       As in 4 c) above

      - Aggregated volume

      - Price
 e)   Date of the transaction                                      12 November 2024
 f)   Place of the transaction                                     Outside a trading venue

d)

 

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

As in 4 c) above

 

 

e)

Date of the transaction

12 November 2024

f)

 

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely

    associated

 a)   Name                                                         Jean-Michel Orieux
 2    Reason for the notification
 a)   Position/status                                              Non-Executive Chair
 b)   Initial notification /Amendment                              Initial
 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                                     Grant of Options over Ordinary Shares

 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)                                       Price(s)  Volume(s)

                                                            4.15p     1,000,000

 d)   Aggregated information                                       As in 4 c) above

      - Aggregated volume

      - Price
 e)   Date of the transaction                                      12 November 2024
 f)   Place of the transaction                                     Outside a trading venue

d)

 

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

As in 4 c) above

 

 

e)

Date of the transaction

12 November 2024

f)

 

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

 

 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely

    associated

 a)   Name                                                         Nick Ayerst
 2    Reason for the notification
 a)   Position/status                                              CEO
 b)   Initial notification /Amendment                              Initial
 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                                     Grant of Options over Ordinary Shares

 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)                                       Price(s)  Volume(s)

                                                            4.15p     1,200,000

 d)   Aggregated information                                       As in 4 c) above

      - Aggregated volume

      - Price
 e)   Date of the transaction                                      12 November 2024
 f)   Place of the transaction                                     Outside a trading venue

d)

 

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

As in 4 c) above

 

 

e)

Date of the transaction

12 November 2024

f)

 

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

 

 

 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely

    associated

 a)   Name                                                         James Fisher
 2    Reason for the notification
 a)   Position/status                                              Finance Director
 b)   Initial notification /Amendment                              Initial
 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                                     Grant of Options over Ordinary Shares

 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)                                       Price(s)  Volume(s)

                                                            4.15p     1,000,000

 d)   Aggregated information                                       As in 4 c) above

      - Aggregated volume

      - Price
 e)   Date of the transaction                                      12 November 2024
 f)   Place of the transaction                                     Outside a trading venue

d)

 

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

As in 4 c) above

 

 

e)

Date of the transaction

12 November 2024

f)

 

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

 

 

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