REG - Westminster Group - Director/PDMR Share Purchases

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10/11/2022 07:00

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RNS Number : 8953F  Westminster Group PLC  10 November 2022

 

 

10 November 2022

 

 

Westminster Group Plc

('Westminster' or the 'Company')

 

 Purchase of Shares by Directors & Company Secretary

Westminster Group Plc (AIM: WSG), a leading supplier of managed services and
technology-based security solutions, is pleased to announce that it has been
notified that the Company's CEO, CFO, and the Company Secretary, have
purchased, in aggregate, 2,136,917 shares of 0.1 pence each in the Company
('Ordinary Shares'):

 Name           Title                    Number of Ordinary Shares purchased  Aggregate price paid per Ordinary Share  Total Ordinary Shares owned  % of issued share capital of Company
 Peter Fowler#  Chief Executive Officer

                                         1,091,917                            1.78p                                    7,693,711                    2.328%
 Mark Hughes    Chief Financial Officer  855,000                              1.88p                                    971,000                      0.294%
 Roger Worrall  Company Secretary        190,000                              1.88p                                    2,484,861                    0.752%

# Note Peter Fowler's purchase consisted of 236,917 Ordinary Shares purchased
in his own name and 855,000 Ordinary Shares purchased by Lawnscote Holdings
Limited, a family investment company, which is controlled by Peter Fowler, and
owned 60 per cent by Peter Fowler and his wife, 20 per cent. by Stuart Fowler,
who is also a director of the company, and 20 per cent. by Joanna Fowler, who
is a connected party.

 

 

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)  Names                                                        a)   Lawnscote Holdings Limited

                                                                  b)   Peter Fowler, Chief Executive Officer

                                                                  c)   Mark Hughes, Chief Financial Officer

                                                                  d)   Roger Worrall, Company Secretary
 2.  Reason for the Notification
 a)  Position/status                                              See 1(a) - classified as PDMRs of the Company
 b)  Initial notification/ Amendment                              Initial Notification
 3.  Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
     platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
 a)  Name                                                         Westminster Group Plc
 b)  LEI                                                          213800LU5SW6Q8RDVQ64
 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

     Identification code                                          GB00B1XLC220
 b)  Nature of the transaction                                    Acquisition of Ordinary Shares

 c)  Price(s) and volume(s)                                       a)   Price:         1.88p

                                                                  Volume:    855,000

                                                                  b)   Price:          1.45p

                                                                  Volume:    236,917

                                                                  c)   Price:         1.88p

                                                                  Volume:   855,000

                                                                  d)   Price:         1.88p

                                                                  Volume:  190,000

 d)  Aggregated information:

     ·      Aggregated volume                                     N/A

     ·      Price
 e)  Date of the transaction

                                                                  9 November 2022
 f)  Place of the transaction

                                                                  AIM

 

 

 

 

For further information please contact:

 

 Westminster Group Plc                                      Media enquiries via Walbrook PR
 Rt. Hon. Sir Tony Baldry - Chairman
 Peter Fowler - Chief Executive Officer
 Mark Hughes - Chief Financial Officer

 Strand Hanson Limited (Financial & Nominated Adviser)
 James Harris                                               020 7409 3494
 Ritchie Balmer

 Richard Johnson

 Arden Partners plc (Broker)                                020 7614 5900

 Ruari McGirr (Corporate)

 Tim Dainton/Simon Johnson (Broking)

 Walbrook (Investor Relations)
 Tom Cooper                                                 020 7933 8780
 Paul Vann
 Nick Rome                                                  Westminster@walbrookpr.com

 

 

Notes:

 

Westminster Group plc is a specialist security and services group operating
worldwide via an extensive international network of agents and offices in over
50 countries.

 

Westminster's principal activity is the design, supply and ongoing support of
advanced technology security solutions, encompassing a wide range of
surveillance, detection (including Fever Detection), tracking and interception
technologies and the provision of long-term managed services contracts such as
the management and running of complete security services and solutions in
airports, ports and other such facilities together with the provision of
manpower, consultancy and training services. The majority of its customer
base, by value, comprises governments and government agencies,
non-governmental organisations (NGO's) and blue-chip commercial organisations.

 

The Westminster Group Foundation is part of the Group's Corporate Social
Responsibility activities. www.wg-foundation.org
(http://www.wg-foundation.org)

 

The Foundation's goal is to support the communities in which the Group
operates by working with local partners and other established charities to
provide goods or services for the relief of poverty and the advancement of
education and healthcare particularly in the developing world.

 

The Westminster Group Foundation is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation,
CIO, registered with the Charities Commission number 1158653.

 

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE 7 OF THE
MARKET ABUSE REGULATION NO. 596/2014 ("MAR") WHICH IS PART OF UK LAW BY VIRTUE
OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018. UPON THE PUBLICATION OF THIS
ANNOUNCEMENT, THIS INSIDE INFORMATION IS NOW CONSIDERED TO BE IN THE PUBLIC
DOMAIN

 

 

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