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RNS Number : 7157A  SDI Group PLC  25 September 2025

SDI Group plc

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

 

Grant of Share Option Awards

 

25 September 2025 - SDI Group plc, the buy and build group, focused on
companies which design and manufacture specialist lab equipment, industrial
and scientific sensors and industrial & scientific products, announces
details of the grant of share option awards on 24 September 2025 to the
Company's Executive Directors in respect of Ordinary Shares of 1p each in the
Company. Two separate awards were granted to each Executive Director.

 

One award is a deferred bonus award in respect of SDI's financial year ended
30 April 2025 granted under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan 2025. The
other award is a performance based LTIP award, also granted under the
Company's Long Term Incentive Plan 2025 ("LTIP") (together, the "Grants").

 

The deferred bonus awards have an exercise price per share of 1 pence and are
exercisable one year from grant and have no performance conditions.

 

The LTIP awards have an exercise price per share of 1 pence and are ordinarily
exercisable three year from grant subject to continued service and to the
extent that performance conditions measured over a 3-year performance period
are met. The LTIP awards are also subject to net of tax post vesting holding
period to be determined by the Remuneration Committee. The performance
conditions for the awards are linked to the Company's growth in EPS and total
shareholder return.

 

Each of the awards are subject to the rules of the LTIP including its good/bad
leaver terms and its malus and claw back provisions.

 

The following awards have been made:

 

 Name            Role                     LTIP award        Vesting Date       Deferred bonus award  Vesting Date       Total options following the Grants

                                          (no. of shares)                      (no. of shares)                          (no of shares)

 Stephen Brown   Chief Executive Officer  312,121           25 September 2028  191,287               24                 1,290,128

                                                                                                     September 2026

 Amitabh Sharma  Chief Financial Officer  267,070           25 September 2028  163,614               24 September 2026  1,084,856

 

Separate from the above, the Company also announces that it has issued and
allotted a total of 21,800 new ordinary shares of 1 penny each in the capital
of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") following an exercise of approved options
by an employee.

 

Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the 21,800 new
Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") and it is
expected that Admission will become effective, and trading will commence at
8:00 a.m. on or around 26 September 2025.

 

Following Admission, the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue will be
104,573,126 and the total number of voting rights will therefore be
104,573,126. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for
the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify
their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the
Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

 

  Enquiries:

     SDI Group plc                                        +44 (0)1223 727144

     Stephen Brown, Chief Executive Officer               www.sdigroup.com (http://www.sdigroup.com)

     Amitabh Sharma, Chief Financial Officer

     Cavendish Capital Markets Ltd (NOMAD & broker)       +44 (0)20 7220 0500

     Ed Frisby / Seamus Fricker - Corporate Finance

     Andrew Burdis / Sunila de Silva - ECM

     Vigo Consulting (Financial Communications)           +44 (0)20 7390 0230

     Tim McCall / Rozi Morris / Fiona Hetherington        SDIGroup@vigoconsulting.com (mailto:SDIGroup@vigoconsulting.com)

 

About SDI Group plc:

 

SDI Group plc is a group of small to medium size companies with specialist
industrial and scientific products in growth sector niches which help solve
customers' key challenges.

 

It specialises in the acquisition and development of companies that design and
manufacture specialist products for use in lab equipment, industrial &
scientific sensors and industrial & scientific products.

 

Its portfolio of businesses supplies the life sciences, healthcare, plastics
and packaging, manufacturing, precision optics and measurement instrumentation
markets.

 

SDI aims to continue its growth through driving the organic growth of its
portfolio companies and by the acquisition of complementary technology
businesses with established reputations in global markets.

 

For more information, please see: www.SDIGroup.com (http://www.sdigroup.com/)

 

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                                                         Stephen Brown
 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                                                         SDI Group plc
 b)  LEI                                                          213800YA3XW7JRE46Z70
 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 1p each
     Identification code                                          GB00B3FBWW43
 b)  Nature of the transaction                                    1.   Grant of a deferred bonus award under the SDI Group plc Long Term
                                                                  Incentive Plan 2025.

                                                                  2.   Grant of a LTIP award under the SDI Group plc Long Term Incentive Plan
                                                                  2025.

                                                                  Each award is structured as an option over Ordinary Shares and have an
                                                                  associated exercise price of 1 pence per Ordinary Share.
 c)  Price(s) and volume(s)                                       Price (s)  Volume(s)
                                                                  Nil        191,287
                                                                  Nil        312,121
 d)  Aggregated information:

·         Aggregated volume                                 503,408

     ·         Price                                              Nil
 e)  Date of the transaction                                      24 September 2025
 f)  Place of the transaction                                     Outside a trading venue

d)

Aggregated information:

·         Aggregated volume

·         Price

 

503,408

Nil

e)

Date of the transaction

24 September 2025

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

 1.  Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely
     associated
 a)  Name                                                         Amitabh Sharma
 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                                                         SDI Group plc
 b)  LEI                                                          213800YA3XW7JRE46Z70
 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 1p each
     Identification code                                          GB00B3FBWW43
 b)  Nature of the transaction                                    1.   Grant of a deferred bonus award under the SDI Group plc Long Term
                                                                  Incentive Plan 2025.

                                                                  2.   Grant of a LTIP award under the SDI Group plc Long Term Incentive Plan
                                                                  2025.

                                                                  Each award is structured as an option over Ordinary Shares and have an
                                                                  associated exercise price of 1 pence per Ordinary Share.
 c)  Price(s) and volume(s)                                       Price (s)  Volume(s)
                                                                  Nil        163,614
                                                                  Nil        267,070
 d)  Aggregated information:

·         Aggregated volume                                 430,684

     ·         Price                                              Nil
 e)  Date of the transaction                                      24 September 2025
 f)  Place of the transaction                                     Outside a trading venue

d)

Aggregated information:

·         Aggregated volume

·         Price

 

430,684

Nil

e)

Date of the transaction

24 September 2025

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

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