27th Sep 2017 16:59
27 September 2017
Cello Group plc
("Cello" or the "Company")
Director/PDMR Shareholding
The Company has been notified that on 27 September 2017 Mark Bentley, Group Finance Director, sold and then re-purchased 110,000 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), in order to transfer the Ordinary Shares to Mr Bentley's SIPP. The sale price was 127.50 pence per share and the purchase price was 127.53 pence per share.
The sale and purchase has no effect on the total number of Ordinary Shares held by Mr Bentley and, following this transaction, Mr Bentley remains beneficially and non-beneficially interested in 442,518 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 0.4 per cent. of the Company's issued ordinary share capital.
The Company has also received notification that on 27 September 2017, Jane Shirley, a director of Cello Health, exercised share options over 20,000 Ordinary Shares for an exercise price of 10 pence per share, and subsequently sold the 20,000 Ordinary Shares for a price of 127 pence per share. In addition, on 26 September 2017, Alistair Shirley, a person closely associated with Jane Shirley, sold 421 Ordinary Shares at a price of 129 pence per share.
Following the above transactions, Jane Shirley and her persons closely associated hold 78,000 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 0.1% of the Company's issued ordinary share capital.
Enquiries:
Cello Group | 020 7812 8460 |
Mark Scott, Chief Executive | |
Mark Bentley, Finance Director | |
Cenkos Securities | 0207 397 8900 |
Bobbie Hilliam Harry Hargreaves |
1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
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a) | Name | Mark Bentley | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status | Finance Director | ||||
b) | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a) | Name | Cello Group plc | ||||
b) | LEI | 2138004TZYGZLWQP7N64 | ||||
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
Identification code | Ordinary Shares of 10p each
GB00B0310763 | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction | Sale of Ordinary Shares | ||||
c)
| Price(s) and volume(s)
|
| ||||
d) | Aggregated information
-Aggregated volume
-Price |
110,000
£140,250 | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 27 September 2017 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | XLON | ||||
1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
| |||||
a) | Name | Mark Bentley | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status | Finance Director | ||||
b) | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a) | Name | Cello Group plc | ||||
b) | LEI | 2138004TZYGZLWQP7N64 | ||||
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
Identification code | Ordinary Shares of 10p each
GB00B0310763 | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction | Purchase of Ordinary Shares | ||||
c)
| Price(s) and volume(s)
|
| ||||
d) | Aggregated information
-Aggregated volume
-Price |
110,000
£140,283 | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 27 September 2017 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | XLON | ||||
1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
| |||||
a) | Name | Jane Shirley | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status | Director of Cello Health | ||||
b) | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a) | Name | Cello Group plc | ||||
b) | LEI | 2138004TZYGZLWQP7N64 | ||||
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
Identification code | Ordinary Shares of 10p each
GB00B0310763 | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction | Exercise of options over Ordinary Shares | ||||
c)
| Price(s) and volume(s)
|
| ||||
d) | Aggregated information
-Aggregated volume
-Price |
20,000
£2,000 | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 27 September 2017 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | Outside trading venue | ||||
1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
| |||||
a) | Name | Jane Shirley | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status | Director of Cello Health | ||||
b) | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a) | Name | Cello Group plc | ||||
b) | LEI | 2138004TZYGZLWQP7N64 | ||||
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
Identification code | Ordinary Shares of 10p each
GB00B0310763 | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction | Sale of Ordinary Shares | ||||
c)
| Price(s) and volume(s)
|
| ||||
d) | Aggregated information
-Aggregated volume
-Price |
20,000
£25,400 | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 27 September 2017 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | XLON | ||||
1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
| |||||
a) | Name | Alistair Shirley | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status | Person closely associated with Jane Shirley | ||||
b) | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a) | Name | Cello Group plc | ||||
b) | LEI | 2138004TZYGZLWQP7N64 | ||||
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
Identification code | Ordinary Shares of 10p each
GB00B0310763 | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction | Sale of Ordinary Shares | ||||
c)
| Price(s) and volume(s)
|
| ||||
d) | Aggregated information
-Aggregated volume
-Price |
421
£543.09 | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 26 September 2017 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | XLON | ||||
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CLL.L