General Meeting Results and PDMR Shareholding

H-Power

07/08/2025 10:31

RNS Number : 4050U

AFC Energy Plc

07 August 2025

 

7 August 2025

AFC Energy plc

("AFC Energy", the "Group" or the "Company")

General Meeting Results and Director/PDMR Shareholding

AFC Energy plc (AIM: AFC), a leading provider of hydrogen power generation technologies, announces that at its General Meeting held earlier today, all resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed by the necessary majority.

General Meeting - proxy voting results

Res. No.
Brief Description
Votes for & Discretion
%
Votes against
%
Total votes (ex. Withheld)
Votes withheld
Ordinary Resolutions
1.
Authority to allot shares for Conditional Placing and the RetailBook Offer
145,191,111
97.74
3,358,787
2.26
148,549,898
401,990
2.
Authority to allot shares for general purposes
145,451,014
97.91
3,103,894
2.09
148,554,908
396,980
Special Resolution
3.
Conditional on passing of ordinary resolution 1, disapplication of pre-emption rights
145,466,348
97.90
3,121,587
2.10
148,587,935
363,953
4.
Conditional on passing of ordinary resolution 2, disapplication of pre-emption rights
145,562,224
98.07
2,862,014
1.93
148,424,238
527,650

 

 

Settlement and Admission

An application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for 44,729,253 RetailBook Offer Shares and 144,455,321 Conditional Placing Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Second Admission"). It is expected that Second Admission will take place at 8.00 a.m. on or around 8 August 2025 and that dealings on AIM will commence at the same time. When issued, the RetailBook Offer Shares and Conditional Placing Shares will be credited as fully paid and will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares of £0.001 each in the capital of the Company.

Total Voting Rights

Following Second Admission, the Company's enlarged issued ordinary share capital will be 1,131,502,399 ordinary shares, with no shares held in treasury. This figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Unless otherwise defined, definitions contained in this Announcement have the same meaning as set out in the announcement made by the Company on 16 July 2025 regarding the launch of the Placing (the "Launch Announcement").

Related party transaction and director/PDMR Shareholding

The Company confirms that pursuant to the RetailBook Offer, today the following individuals purchased ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 10 pence, as detailed below:

Name
Number of Ordinary Shares
Elaine Sullivan, spouse of Gary Bullard (Non-Executive Chairman)
400,000
John Wilson (Chief Executive Officer)
73,970
Sophie Wilson (spouse of John Wilson, CEO)
199,300
Minor child of John Wilson, CEO
105,000

 

As the individuals above are considered to be "related parties" as defined under the AIM Rules, their participation in the RetailBook Offer constitutes a related party transaction for the purposes of Rule 13 of the AIM Rules.

As such, Duncan Neale and Gerry Agnew, who are not participating in the RetailBook Offer and are therefore considered to be independent for the purposes of the RetailBook Offer consider, having consulted with the Company's Nominated Adviser, Peel Hunt, that the terms of the above transactions are fair and reasonable insofar as the Company's Shareholders are concerned.Following the above transactions:

(i)            Gary Bullard is now interested in  5,605,000 Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company, representing 0.50% of the Company's issued share capital; and

(ii)           John Wilson is now interested in 6,071,267.00 Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company, representing 0.54% of the Company's issued share capital.

The following notification, made pursuant to Article 19(3) of the Market Abuse Regulation, provides further details:

 

 

1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associate
a)
Name
Elaine Sullivan
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Person Closely Associated with the Company's Non-Executive Chairman
b)
Initial notification /Amendment
Initial notification
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
AFC Energy Plc
b)
LEI
213800SRJST19GNS9U35
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 0.1 pence each in the Company
Identification code
ISIN: GB00B18S7B29
b)
Nature of the transaction
Purchase of Ordinary Shares
c)
Price(s) and volume(s)
Volume
Price
400,000
10.00 pence
d)
Aggregated Information
Volume
Price
Volume: 400,000 ordinary shares
Price: as set out above
e)
Date of transaction
7 August 2025
f)
Place of transaction
London Stock Exchange, AIM

 

 

1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associate
a)
Name
John Wilson
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
AFC Energy Plc
b)
LEI
213800SRJST19GNS9U35
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 0.1 pence each in the Company
Identification code
ISIN: GB00B18S7B29
b)
Nature of the transaction
Purchase of Ordinary Shares
c)
Price(s) and volume(s)
Volume
Price
73,970
10.00 pence
d)
Aggregated Information
Volume
Price
Volume: 73,970 ordinary shares
Price: as set out above
e)
Date of transaction
7 August 2025
f)
Place of transaction
London Stock Exchange, AIM

 

 

1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associate
a)
Name
Sophie Wilson
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Person Closely Associated with the Company's 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
AFC Energy Plc
b)
LEI
213800SRJST19GNS9U35
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 0.1 pence each in the Company
Identification code
ISIN: GB00B18S7B29
b)
Nature of the transaction
Purchase of Ordinary Shares
c)
Price(s) and volume(s)
Volume
Price
199,300
10.00 pence
d)
Aggregated Information
Volume
Price
Volume: 304,617 ordinary shares
Price: as set out above
e)
Date of transaction
7 August 2025
f)
Place of transaction
London Stock Exchange, AIM

 

1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associate
a)
Name
Minor child of John Wilson
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Person Closely Associated with the Company's 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
AFC Energy Plc
b)
LEI
213800SRJST19GNS9U35
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 0.1 pence each in the Company
Identification code
ISIN: GB00B18S7B29
b)
Nature of the transaction
Purchase of Ordinary Shares
c)
Price(s) and volume(s)
Volume
Price
105,000
10.00 pence
d)
Aggregated Information
Volume
Price
Volume:105,000ordinary shares
Price: as set out above
e)
Date of transaction
7 August 2025
f)
Place of transaction
London Stock Exchange, AIM

 

 

For further information, please contact:
AFC Energy plc
John Wilson (Chief Executive Officer)
Karl Bostock (Chief Financial Officer)
+44 (0) 14 8327 6726
investors@afcenergy.com
Peel Hunt LLP- Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker
Richard Crichton / Georgia Langoulant / Emily Bhasin
+44 (0) 207 418 8900
Zeus- Joint Broker
David Foreman / James Hornigold (Investment Banking)
Dominic King (Corporate Broking) / Rupert Woolfenden (Sales)
+44 (0) 203 829 5000
RBC Capital Markets -Joint Broker
Matthew Coakes / Teri Su
Eduardo Famini / James Maitland
FTI Consulting - Financial PR Advisors
Ben Brewerton / Chris Laing / Evie Taylor
+44 (0) 20 7653 4000
+44 (0) 203 727 1000
afcenergy@fticonsulting.com
About AFC Energy
AFC Energy plc is a leading provider of hydrogen energy solutions, to provide clean electricity for on and off grid power applications. The Company's fuel cell technology is now deployable as electric vehicle chargers, off-grid decentralised power systems for construction and temporary power with emerging opportunities across maritime, data centres and rail as part of a portfolio approach to the decarbonisation of society's growing electrification needs.
The Company's proprietary ammonia cracking technology further highlights emerging opportunities across the distributed hydrogen production market with a focus on hydrogen's role in supporting industries facing challenges in decarbonisation, such as mining, cement and heavy engineering.


 

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