REG - Gooch & Housego PLC - Director/PDMR Shareholding

Gooch & HousegoAnnouncement

28/03/2019 17:30

RNS Number : 3938U
Gooch & Housego PLC
28 March 2019
 


Immediate Release
 
 

Gooch & Housego PLC
("G&H" or the "Company")
 
Director Shareholding
 
 
Gooch & Housego PLC (AIM: GHH), the specialist manufacturer of photonic components & systems, announces that the Company was notified on 28 March 2019 that, on the same date, Mark Webster, Chief Executive Officer, exercised 28,437 options vested under the Gooch & Housego PLC 2013 Long Term Incentive Plan and in order to satisfy the income tax obligations subsequently sold 13,500 ordinary shares of 20p each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of £12.40 per Ordinary Share.
 
Following this, Mark Webster has an interest in 36,366 Ordinary Shares in the Company, representing 0.1% of the Company's total issued share capital.
 
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


Mark Webster


 




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


Gooch & Housego Plc


 




b)


LEI


213800DO3D00KYOPA952


 




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 20 pence each
GB0002259116


 




b)


Nature of transaction


(1)  Exercise of share options with an exercise price of zero pence per share, and (2) subsequent sale of ordinary shares
 
 


 




c)


Price(s) and volume(s)


Price(s)


Volume(s)


 












(1)  Nil
(2)  1,240.0p


28,437
13,500


 








Aggregated information
-      Aggregated volume
-      Price


 
13,500
£167,400


 




e)


Date of the transaction


28 March 2019


 




f)


Place of the transaction


London Stock Exchange


 












 
 
For further information please contact:
 
Gooch & Housego PLC
Mark Webster/ Andy Boteler                               Tel 01460 256470
 
Buchanan
Mark Court/Sophie Cowles                                  Tel 0207 466 5000
 
Investec Bank plc, (NOMAD and Broker)
Patrick Robb / David Anderson                            Tel 0207 597 4000
 




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