Comptoir Group
Plc
("Comptoir", the "Group" or the "Company")
Grant of
Options
Comptoir Group Plc (AIM: COM), the owner and operator of
Lebanese, Middle Eastern and North African inspired restaurants
announces that on the 12th November 2024 the Company's
Renumeration Committee granted options ("New Options") over an
aggregate of 6,250,000 ordinary shares ("Ordinary Shares") of 1
pence each in the Company to PDMRs and other senior members of the
team.
The following New Options were
granted to PDMRs:
|
Individual
|
Role
|
New
Options
|
Total Share Options (new and existing)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ali Aneizi
|
Non-Executive Director
|
1,000,000
|
1,000,000
|
|
Jean-Michel Orieux
|
Non-Executive Chair
|
1,000,000
|
1,000,000
|
|
Nick Ayerst
|
CEO
|
1,200,000
|
3,600,000
|
|
James Fisher
|
Finance Director
|
1,000,000
|
1,000,000
|
In
addition to the above, 2,050,000 New Options were granted to
non-PDMR senior employees.
3,050,000 of the New Options are granted under the Company's
existing CSOP Share Scheme, with the remaining 3,200,000 options
issued to Ali Aneizi, Jean-Michel Orieux and Nick Ayerst as
unapproved options.
All the
New Options have an exercise price of 4.15p, being the average
share price over the preceding two weeks, and vest after three
years on 12 November 2027, conditional on the continued employment
of the recipient at the date of vesting.
Following the grant of the New Options, there are options over
a total of 10,820,000 Ordinary Shares in the Company as at the date
of this announcement, representing approximately 8.8% of the
Company's existing issued share capital.
Enquiries:
|
Comptoir Group plc
Jean-Michel Orieux, Non-Executive
Chair
Nick Ayerst, CEO
|
0207 486 1111
|
|
Cavendish Capital Markets Limited (Nominated Adviser and
Broker)
Corporate Finance: Carl Holmes,
Abigail Kelly
Corporate Broking: Charlie
Combe
|
020 7220 0500
|
About Comptoir Group
Comptoir
Group PLC owns and operates 28 Lebanese restaurants, six of which
are franchised, based predominately in the UK. The flagship brand
of the group, Comptoir Libanais, is a collection of 22 restaurants
located across London, nationwide and international Travel Hubs,
including cities such as Manchester, Bath, Birmingham, Oxford,
Dubai and Milan.
The name
Comptoir Libanais means Lebanese Counter and is a place where
guests can eat casually and enjoy Middle Eastern and North African
food, served with warm and friendly hospitality and a bright
vibrant environment.
The
Group also operates Shawa, serving traditional shawarma through a
counter service model in Westfield and Bluewater shopping centres
and Abu Dhabi, Yalla-Yalla with a branch near Oxford Circus, and
entertainment venue Kenza, located in Devonshire Square,
London.
The
group has expanded internationally with its franchise partners
Avolta and Areas, with restaurants in the Netherlands, Qatar and
UAE and Italy.
Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons
discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely
associated with them are set out below pursuant to the EU
Market Abuse regulation.
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1
|
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
/ person closely associated
|
|
a)
|
Name
|
Ali Aneizi
|
|
2
|
Reason for the notification
|
|
a)
|
Position/status
|
Non-Executive Director
|
|
b)
|
Initial notification
/Amendment
|
Initial
|
|
3
|
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
|
|
a)
|
Name
|
Comptoir Group plc
|
|
b)
|
LEI
|
213800QQ62TS1W4K3I50
|
|
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
|
GB00BYT1L205
|
|
b)
|
Nature of the transaction
|
Grant of Options over Ordinary
Shares
|
|
c)
|
Price(s) and volume(s)
|
|
Price(s)
|
Volume(s)
|
|
4.15p
|
1,000,000
|
|
|
d)
|
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
|
As in 4 c) above
|
|
e)
|
Date of the transaction
|
12 November 2024
|
|
f)
|
Place of the transaction
|
Outside a trading venue
|
|
1
|
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
/ person closely associated
|
|
a)
|
Name
|
Jean-Michel Orieux
|
|
2
|
Reason for the notification
|
|
a)
|
Position/status
|
Non-Executive Chair
|
|
b)
|
Initial notification
/Amendment
|
Initial
|
|
3
|
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
|
|
a)
|
Name
|
Comptoir Group plc
|
|
b)
|
LEI
|
213800QQ62TS1W4K3I50
|
|
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
|
GB00BYT1L205
|
|
b)
|
Nature of the transaction
|
Grant of Options over Ordinary
Shares
|
|
c)
|
Price(s) and volume(s)
|
|
Price(s)
|
Volume(s)
|
|
4.15p
|
1,000,000
|
|
|
d)
|
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
|
As in 4 c) above
|
|
e)
|
Date of the transaction
|
12 November 2024
|
|
f)
|
Place of the transaction
|
Outside a trading venue
|
|
1
|
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
/ person closely associated
|
|
a)
|
Name
|
Nick Ayerst
|
|
2
|
Reason for the notification
|
|
a)
|
Position/status
|
CEO
|
|
b)
|
Initial notification
/Amendment
|
Initial
|
|
3
|
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
|
|
a)
|
Name
|
Comptoir Group plc
|
|
b)
|
LEI
|
213800QQ62TS1W4K3I50
|
|
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
|
GB00BYT1L205
|
|
b)
|
Nature of the transaction
|
Grant of Options over Ordinary
Shares
|
|
c)
|
Price(s) and volume(s)
|
|
Price(s)
|
Volume(s)
|
|
4.15p
|
1,200,000
|
|
|
d)
|
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
|
As in 4 c) above
|
|
e)
|
Date of the transaction
|
12 November 2024
|
|
f)
|
Place of the transaction
|
Outside a trading venue
|
|
1
|
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
/ person closely associated
|
|
a)
|
Name
|
James Fisher
|
|
2
|
Reason for the notification
|
|
a)
|
Position/status
|
Finance Director
|
|
b)
|
Initial notification
/Amendment
|
Initial
|
|
3
|
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
|
|
a)
|
Name
|
Comptoir Group plc
|
|
b)
|
LEI
|
213800QQ62TS1W4K3I50
|
|
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
|
GB00BYT1L205
|
|
b)
|
Nature of the transaction
|
Grant of Options over Ordinary
Shares
|
|
c)
|
Price(s) and volume(s)
|
|
Price(s)
|
Volume(s)
|
|
4.15p
|
1,000,000
|
|
|
d)
|
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
|
As in 4 c) above
|
|
e)
|
Date of the transaction
|
12 November 2024
|
|
f)
|
Place of the transaction
|
Outside a trading venue
|