Grant of Options

dotDigital

02/12/2025 17:05

RNS Number : 9523J

dotDigital Group plc

02 December 2025

 

2 December 2025

Dotdigital Group plc

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

Grant of Options

Dotdigital Group Plc (AIM:DOTD), the leading SaaS provider of an all-in-one customer experience and data platform (CXDP), announces it has granted a total of 2,533,175 options over ordinary shares of 0.5 pence in the Company (the "Options") to Directors of the business and to PDMRs, whom are listed below, pursuant to the Dotdigital Performance Share Plan 2017, as set out below.

 

Name
Position
Number of Options granted
Exercise Price
Milan Patel
Chief Executive Officer
948,224
0.5 p
Tom Mullan
Chief Financial Officer
596,026
0.5 p
George Kasparian
Company Secretary
104,027
0.5 p

 

The Options are exercisable subject to continued employment and hitting defined performance targets based on the Company's total shareholder return and earnings per share in the financial year ending 30 June 2028.

The Group has also granted a further 3,355,856 Options which have an exercise price of 66.6p, being the prevailing share price at the time of grant under the Company share option plan ('CSOP') to certain other non-PDMR employees of the business.

In total, these combined awards of Options represent 1.91% of the Company's total voting rights. Following this grant of Options, the total number of options outstanding in the Company is 13,975,907, representing 4.54% of the Company's total voting rights.

 

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by person discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

 

1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
Milan Patel
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
Dotdigital Group plc
b)
LEI
2138006LZ7HHQ6DWFD42
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 0.5 pence each
ISIN: GB00B3W40C23
b)
Nature of the transaction
Grant of options over Ordinary Shares
c)
Price(s) and volume(s)
Exercise Price(s)
Volume(s)
0.5p
948,224
d)
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
N/A - single transaction
e)
Date of the transaction
1 December 2025
f)
Place of the transaction
Off market

 

 

 

1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
Tom Mullan
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Chief Financial Officer
b)
Initial notification /Amendment
Initial Notification
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
Dotdigital Group plc
b)
LEI
2138006LZ7HHQ6DWFD42
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 0.5 pence each
ISIN: GB00B3W40C23
b)
Nature of the transaction
Grant of options over Ordinary Shares
c)
Price(s) and volume(s)
Exercise Price(s)
Volume(s)
0.5p
596,026
d)
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
N/A - single transaction
e)
Date of the transaction
1 December 2025
f)
Place of the transaction
Off market

 

 

1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
George Kasparian
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Company Secretary
b)
Initial notification /Amendment
Initial Notification
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
Dotdigital Group plc
b)
LEI
2138006LZ7HHQ6DWFD42
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 0.5 pence each
ISIN: GB00B3W40C23
b)
Nature of the transaction
Grant of options over Ordinary Shares
c)
Price(s) and volume(s)
Exercise Price(s)
Volume(s)
0.5p
104,027
d)
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
N/A - single transaction
e)
Date of the transaction
1 December 2025
f)
Place of the transaction
Off market

 

 

 

Contacts

Dotdigital Group plc
+44 (0)20 3953 3072
Milan Patel, CEO
investorrelations@dotdigital.com
Tom Mullan, CFO
Alma Strategic Communications
+44 (0)20 3405 0210
Hilary Buchanan
dotdigital@almastrategic.com
David Ison
Sarah Peters
Canaccord Genuity (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)
+44 (0)20 7523 8000
Bobbie Hilliam
Elizabeth Halley-Stott
Cavendish Capital Markets Limited (Joint Broker)
+44 (0)20 7220 0500
Jonny Franklin-Adams, Corporate Finance
Sunila de Silva, Equity Capital Markets
Singer Capital Markets (Joint Broker)
+44 (0)20 7496 3000
Shaun Dobson
Jen Boorer


 

About Dotdigital

Dotdigital Group plc (AIM: DOTD) is a leading provider of cross-channel marketing automation technology to marketing professionals. Dotdigital's customer experience and data platform (CXDP) combines the power of automation and AI to help businesses deliver hyper-relevant customer experiences at scale. With Dotdigital, marketing teams can unify and enrich their customer data, identify valuable customer segments, and deliver personalised cross-channel customer journeys that result in engagements, conversions, and loyalty.

Founded in 1999, Dotdigital is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester, Southampton, New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo, Warsaw and Cape Town. Dotdigital's solutions empower over 4,000 brands across 150 countries.

 

 

 

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