Director's dealing
14 October 2026
FRANCHISE BRANDS PLC
("Franchise Brands", the "Group" or the "Company")
Director’s dealing
Franchise Brands plc (AIM: FRAN), a platform of international B2B franchise brands focused on essential services through a mobile workforce, announces that on 12 October 2026 Neil Miller, a director and the Chief Financial Officer, bought 7,000 Ordinary Shares in the Company at a price of 155.2 pence per share.
Following this purchase, Mr Miller has an interest in 50,000 Ordinary Shares of the Company, equating to 0.03% of the issued share capital.
The table at the end of this announcement provides further information in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation.
Enquiries:
Franchise Brands plc
+ 44 (0) 1625 813231
Stephen Hemsley, Executive Chairman
Peter Molloy, Chief Executive Officer
Neil Miller, Chief Financial Officer
Julia Choudhury, Corporate Development Director
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)
+44 (0) 20 7710 7600
Matthew Blawat
Jason Grossman
Allenby Capital Limited (Joint Broker)
+44 (0) 20 3328 5656
Jeremy Porter / Liz Kirchner (Corporate Finance)
Amrit Nahal / Tony Quirke (Sales & Corporate Broking)
MHP Group (Financial PR)
+44 (0) 20 3128 8100
Katie Hunt / Hugo Harris
+44 (0) 7884 494112
About Franchise Brands plc
Franchise Brands (FTSE AIM UK 50) is a platform of international B2B franchise brands focused on essential services through a mobile workforce. We have clarity of purpose which is acquire, develop and scale proven franchise businesses. Our focus is to help our franchise partners grow their businesses, so that "as they grow, we grow".
Our franchise partners benefit from our One Franchise Brands platform which includes shared, bespoke technology systems, a strategic growth maximisation methodology and management franchising expertise.
We have 7 franchise brands in 10 countries, 265 franchise partners in the three core B2B divisions, 261 B2C franchise partners and approximately 2,500 mobile service vehicles. We focus on resilient reactive and planned services and carry out approximately 1.3m jobs per year at an average value of approximately £340 for over 55,000 active commercial customers. We earn an average management service fee of 15% from each job undertaken by our franchise partners.
Our market-leading brands include Pirtek, Metro Rod and Filta. We employ approximately 600 people across the Group and there are over 3,000 people employed in the franchise community.
For further information, visit www.franchisebrands.co.uk
Information required under the UK Market Abuse Regulation:
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
Neil Miller
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Director and 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
Franchise Brands PLC
b)
LEI
213800CFRX6CJ8LCKN37
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 0.5p each in Franchise Brands plc
ISIN: GB00BD6P7Y24
b)
Nature of the transaction
Purchase of shares
c)
Price(s) and volume(s)
Price: 155.2p per share
Volume: 7,000
d)
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
n/a
e)
Date of the transaction
12 October 2026
f)
Place of the transaction
London Stock Exchange (XLON)
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