RNS Number : 7945L
Gattaca PLC
16 December 2025
16 December 2025
Gattaca plc
("Gattaca" or the "Company")
Exercise of Options and Director/PDMR Shareholding
Gattaca, the specialist staffing solutions business, announces the exercise of Long Term Incentive Plan Options ("Options") by Matthew Wragg, CEO, Oliver Whittaker, CFO, (the "Executives"), and other employees of the Company for an aggregate of 243,593 ordinary shares of 1p each ("Ordinary Shares") of which 202,925 are being exercised by the Executives.
Following the exercise of Options the Company has instructed Apex Financial Services (Trust Company) Limited, which administers the Gattaca Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT") to transfer the 202,925 Ordinary Shares ("Transfer") at cost of 1p per share to the Executives. Following the Transfer the EBT is interested in 644,351 Ordinary Shares.
Further information is contained in the disclosure table below.
For further information, please contact:
Gattaca plc
+44 (0) 1489 898989
Matthew Wragg, Chief Executive Officer Oliver Whittaker, Chief Financial Officer
Panmure Liberum (Nomad and Broker)
+44 (0) 20 3100 2000
Edward Mansfield Will King
IFC Advisory (Financial PR and IR) Tim Metcalfe Graham Herring Florence Chandler
+44 (0) 203 934 6630
NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM:
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
Matthew Wragg
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
Gattaca plc
b)
LEI
213800LM81ZQ9V9G6866
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 1p each GB00B1FMDQ43
b)
Nature of the transaction
Exercise of Share Options
c)
Price(s) and volume(s)
Price
Volume
1p each
128,045
d)
Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price
Price
Volume
£1,280.45
128,045
e)
Date of the transaction
11 December 2025
f)
Place of the transaction
Off-market transaction
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
Oliver Whittaker
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
Gattaca plc
b)
LEI
213800LM81ZQ9V9G6866
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 1p each GB00B1FMDQ43
b)
Nature of the transaction
Exercise of Share Options
c)
Price(s) and volume(s)
Price
Volume
1p each
74,880
d)
Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price
Price
Volume
£748.80
74,880
e)
Date of the transaction
11 December 2025
f)
Place of the transaction
Off-market transaction
This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com or visit www.rns.com.
RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy.
END
DSHUNAURVWUUAAA
