Best of the Best PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding & Rule 2.9 Announcement (5615G)
July 19 2023 - 10:50AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMBOTB
RNS Number : 5615G
Best of the Best PLC
19 July 2023
Best of the Best plc
("Best of the Best", "BOTB", "the Company" or "the Group")
Exercise of Options, Director/PDMR Shareholding and Total Voting
Rights
Rule 2.9 Announcement
Best of the Best plc (LSE: BOTB), the provider of online
competitions to win cars and other prizes, announces that it has
today issued and allotted 94,352 new ordinary shares of 5 pence
each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") pursuant to the exercise of
options by Ben Hughes, a Director of the Board and the Marketing
Director of BOTB and another senior employee of the Company, in
connection with the recommended and mandatory cash offer made by
Globe Invest Limited ("GIL"), to acquire all of the issued and to
be issued shares in the capital of BOTB ("BOTB Shares") not already
owned by GIL (the "Offer").
The following transactions occurred for Ben Hughes as shown
below:
Director/ Position Number of Exercise Options Share Plan
PDMR Options over price per remaining
Ordinary Ordinary after exercise
Shares exercised Share
Ben Hughes Marketing 9,352 GBP2.25 - EMI
Director
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41,500 GBP3.85 - EMI
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28,500 GBP3.85 - BOTB Unapproved
Share Option
Scheme
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T otal 79,352
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Ben Hughes and his PCAs will hold 119,352 Ordinary Shares
following admission of the new Ordinary Shares representing 1.41
per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company.
Admission
Following the above transactions, application has been made for
the 94,352 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM
("Admission") and dealings are expected to commence on 25 July
2023. The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the
Company's existing Ordinary Shares.
The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue following Admission
will be 8,461,376. Accordingly, the figure of 8,461,376 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 Company under the FCA's
Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Rule 2.9 disclosure
In accordance with Rule 2.9 of the Code, BOTB confirms that
following Admission pursuant to the exercise of the options
referenced above, expected on 25 July 2023 it will have in issue
8,461,376 ordinary shares of 5 pence each. The International
Securities Identification Number (ISIN) for the ordinary shares is
GB00B16S3505.
Enquiries:
Best of the Best plc William Hindmarch, Chief T: 020 7371
Executive 8866
Rupert Garton, Commercial
Director
finnCap Corporate Finance T: 020 7220
(Rule 3 Adviser, Nominated Carl Holmes 0500
Adviser and Broker Teddy Whiley
to BOTB) Alice Lane
1 Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
/ person closely associated
a) Name Ben Hughes
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2 Reason for the notification
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a) Position/status PDMR - Executive Director
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b) Initial notification Initial Notification
/Amendment
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3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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a) Name Best of the Best plc
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b) LEI 213800A7RTSCF8IWQ247
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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
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a) Description of the Ordinary shares of 5 pence each
financial instrument, in the Company
type of instrument
Identification code GB00B16S3505
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b) Nature of the transaction
* Exercise of awards under the BOTB EMI option Scheme
* Exercise of awards under the BOTB EMI option Scheme
* Exercise of awards under the BOTB Unapproved share
option Scheme
.
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c) Price(s) and volume(s) Price(s) Volume(s)
235p
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385p 9,352 (under
the EMI)
385p 41,500 (under
the EMI)
28,500 (under
the BOTB Unapproved
share option
scheme)
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d) Aggregated information
N/a single transaction
- Aggregated volume
- Price
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e) Date of the transaction 19 July 2023
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f) Place of the transaction London
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