26th Jul 2013 18:05
26 July 2013
Escher Group Holdings plc
("Escher", "Escher Group" or "the Group")
Block Listing Return
The Company makes the following notification as required by Schedule Six of the AIM Rules, pursuant to the following block listing admissions of shares which may be allotted and issued in due course in relation to the vesting of options granted under the Company's share option plans.
Name of Company: | Escher Group Holdings plc | |
Period of Return: | 15 January 2013 - 15 July 2013 | |
Name of Scheme: | Escher Group Holdings plc Share Option Scheme | |
Number and Class of Securities not issued under the scheme at the start of the period: | 30,000 Ordinary Shares | |
Number of securities issued under the scheme during the period: | 13,048 | |
Balance of securities under the scheme not yet issued at the end of the period: | 16,952 | |
Number and class of securities originally admitted and the date of admission: | 17,033,097 Ordinary Shares - 8 August 2011 |
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For Further information please contact:
Escher www.eschergroupholdings.com | +353 (0) 1 254 5400 |
Liam Church, Chief Executive Officer | |
Fionnuala Higgins, EVP Sales & Marketing | |
Jonathan O'Connell, Finance Director | |
Panmure Gordon | +44 (0) 20 7886 2500 |
Andrew Godber / Callum Stewart, Corporate Finance | |
Hannah Woodley, Corporate Broking | |
College Hill | +44 (0)20 7457 2020 |
Adrian Duffield/Rozi Morris |
Notes to Editors
Escher is a world leading developer and provider of outsourced, point of service software for use in the postal industry worldwide. Its core software, RiposteEssential, enables post offices to expand upon their traditional offering, providing additional new services, reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Riposte is a messaging middleware that enables applications operating on different computers to communicate with each other. The Riposte software manages data, monitors the system status and communicates across the network. Escher operates across two divisions - its Retail Software Division and its Message Based Communications Division.
The Retail Software Solution (RiposteEssential) serves the postal and courier markets. Transactions include mail and financial services and the system is integrated with utilities and financial services companies, banks and central and local governments.
Escher's Message Based Communications Division (RiposteTrEx) is based on a digital post office box model and is designed to provide a national digital infrastructure linking governments, businesses and citizens via a secure platform.
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