REG - Vianet Group PLC - Grant of Options
20/02/2023 14:45
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RNS Number : 4813Q Vianet Group PLC 20 February 2023
20 February 2023
Vianet Group plc
("Vianet", "the Company" or "the Group")
Grant of Share Options
Vianet Group plc (AIM: VNET), an international cloud based provider of
business intelligence and management software to the hospitality, unattended
retail vending and remote asset management sectors, announces that on 15
February 2023 the Remuneration Committee approved the grant of a total of
450,000 share options (the "Options") to James Dickson, Mark Foster, Stella
Panu and David Coplin, Directors of the Company, over ordinary shares of 10
pence each in the share capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") under the
Company's EMI Scheme. In addition to long term incentive the award to James
Dickson was also in recognition of forgone pension entitlement for FY22 and
FY23 and to ensure that the Directors are appropriately remunerated.
The Options have an exercise price of 75.00 pence per ordinary share, being
the closing midmarket price per ordinary share on 16 February 2023. Each of
these Options vest after three years from the date of issue and are
exercisable for a period of seven years from vesting and subject to the
satisfaction of certain share price performance conditions.
The breakdown of the grant of Options to each of the Directors is as follows:
Director Option Scheme Number of options Option exercise price per share Expiry date
James Dickson EMI Scheme 250,000 75.00p 17 February 2033
Mark Foster EMI Scheme 100,000 75.00p 17 February 2033
Stella Panu EMI Scheme 50,000 75.00p 17 February 2033
Dave Coplin EMI Scheme 50,000 75.00p 17 February 2033
1 Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely
associated
a) Name James Dickson
2 Reason for the notification
a) Position/status PDMR
b) Initial notification /Amendment Initial
3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a) Name Vianet Group PLC
b) LEI 2138007KAM1HB8E7E134
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
Transaction
a) Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Ordinary Shares of 10 pence each
Identification code
ISIN: GB00B13YVN56
b) Nature of the transaction Grant of options under EMI Scheme
c) Price(s) and volume(s)
Price(s) Volume(s)
75.00 pence 250,000
d) Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume N/A - single transaction
- Price
e) Date of the transaction 17 February 2023
f) Place of the transaction London Stock Exchange, AIM
d)
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
N/A - single transaction
e)
Date of the transaction
17 February 2023
f)
Place of the transaction
London Stock Exchange, AIM
1 Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely
associated
a) Name Mark Foster
2 Reason for the notification
a) Position/status PDMR
b) Initial notification /Amendment Initial
3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a) Name Vianet Group PLC
b) LEI 2138007KAM1HB8E7E134
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
Transaction
a) Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Ordinary Shares of 10 pence each
Identification code
ISIN: GB00B13YVN56
b) Nature of the transaction Grant of options under EMI Scheme
c) Price(s) and volume(s)
Price(s) Volume(s)
75.00 pence 100,000
d) Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume N/A - single transaction
- Price
e) Date of the transaction 17 February 2023
f) Place of the transaction London Stock Exchange, AIM
d)
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
N/A - single transaction
e)
Date of the transaction
17 February 2023
f)
Place of the transaction
London Stock Exchange, AIM
1 Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely
associated
a) Name Stella Panu
2 Reason for the notification
a) Position/status PDMR
b) Initial notification /Amendment Initial
3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a) Name Vianet Group PLC
b) LEI 2138007KAM1HB8E7E134
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
Transaction
a) Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Ordinary Shares of 10 pence each
Identification code
ISIN: GB00B13YVN56
b) Nature of the transaction Grant of options under EMI Scheme
c) Price(s) and volume(s)
Price(s) Volume(s)
75.00 pence 50,000
d) Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume N/A - single transaction
- Price
e) Date of the transaction 17 February 2023
f) Place of the transaction London Stock Exchange, AIM
d)
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
N/A - single transaction
e)
Date of the transaction
17 February 2023
f)
Place of the transaction
London Stock Exchange, AIM
1 Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely
associated
a) Name Dave Coplin
2 Reason for the notification
a) Position/status PDMR
b) Initial notification /Amendment Initial
3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a) Name Vianet Group PLC
b) LEI 2138007KAM1HB8E7E134
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
Transaction
a) Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Ordinary Shares of 10 pence each
Identification code
ISIN: GB00B13YVN56
b) Nature of the transaction Grant of options under EMI Scheme
c) Price(s) and volume(s)
Price(s) Volume(s)
75.00 pence 50,000
d) Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume N/A - single transaction
- Price
e) Date of the transaction 17 February 2023
f) Place of the transaction London Stock Exchange, AIM
d)
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
N/A - single transaction
e)
Date of the transaction
17 February 2023
f)
Place of the transaction
London Stock Exchange, AIM
Enquiries:
Vianet Group plc
James Dickson, Chairman & CEO Tel: +44 (0) 1642 358 800
Mark Foster, CFO www.vianetplc.com (http://www.vianetplc.com)
Cenkos Securities plc
Stephen Keys / Camilla Hume Tel: +44 (0) 20 7397 8900
www.cenkos.com (http://www.cenkos.com)
Investor enquiries:
Dale Bellis Tel: +44 (0) 20 7397 8900
About Vianet
Vianet Group is a leading provider of actionable management information and
business insight created through combining data from our Internet of Things
('IOT') solutions and external information sources.
Since its Admission to AIM in 2006, the Group has grown from its core beer
monitoring business both organically and through strategic acquisitions to
widen its offering and develop new businesses, especially in vending telemetry
and contactless payment solutions particularly for the premium coffee sector.
Servicing over 300 customers across the world and rendering live data to our
IOT platform from over 250,000 connected machines daily, Vianet is one of the
largest business to business (b2b) connected solutions providers in Europe
with established long-term relationships with blue chip customers and growing
recurring revenues which are over 85% of our total revenues.
In our Smart Machines division, we connect a single data gathering device with
its own on-board communication capability to a customer's asset or system. The
device then sends data back via our IOT platform to cloud based servers. The
technology was originally developed for automated retailing machines; however,
the flexibility and functionality of the device means the technology can be
applied to any machine which has the capability to output data. The device is
also used to connect our contactless payment solution and communicate payment
terms to our cloud-based payment services providers where that application is
also required.
The Smart Zones division is where we connect multiple data gathering devices
into one or more systems or assets with the data from those devices being
communicated back to our IOT platform and cloud-based servers via a single 4G
communications hub. The technology was originally developed for flow
monitoring devices, temperature sensors, and asset management in drinks
retailing but any data gathering device with a digital output could be
connected to the communications hub where required such as gaming machines,
utilities management and POS.
For further information, please visit www.vianetplc.com
(http://www.vianetplc.com/)
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