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Director/PDMR Shareholding

26th Mar 2025 07:00

RNS Number : 1402C
EKF Diagnostics Holdings PLC
26 March 2025
 

EKF Diagnostics Holdings plc

("EKF", the "Company" or the "Group")

 

PDMR/Director Dealings

 

EKF Diagnostics Holdings plc (AIM: EKF), the AIM-listed global diagnostics business, announces that on Tuesday 25 March 2025, the following members of the EKF Board purchased 550,000 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 22.0 pence per Ordinary Share:

 

  

Director

Title

Number of Ordinary Shares purchased

Resulting holding in Ordinary Shares

Percentage of issued share capital

Julian Baines

Executive Chair

50,000

1,666,288

0.37%

Gavin Jones

Chief Executive Officer

50,000

50,000

0.01%

Stephen Young

Chief Financial Officer

50,000

135,000

0.03%

Christopher Mills¹

Non-Executive Director

150,000

133,500,000 

29.42%

Christian Rigg

Non-Executive Director

100,000

100,000

0.02%

Jennifer Winter

Non-Executive Director

150,000

150,000

 

0.03%

 

¹Includes direct and indirect interests in the Company

 

 

EKF Diagnostics Holdings plc

www.ekfdiagnostics.com

Julian Baines, Executive Chair

 Tel: +44 (0)29 2071 0570

Singer Capital Markets (Nominated Adviser & Broker)

Tel: +44 (0)20 7496 3000

Phil Davies / Oliver Platts

Walbrook PR Limited

Tel: +44 (0)20 7933 8780 or [email protected]

Paul McManus / Alice Woodings

Mob: +44 (0)7980 541 893 / +44 (0)7407 804 654

 

About EKF Life Sciences

 

EKF Life Sciences is a specialist global manufacturer of high-quality enzymes and custom products for use in diagnostic, pharmaceutical, and industrial applications.

 

EKF Life Sciences is at the forefront of supporting global demand in precision fermentation, enzyme applications and research, providing innovative biotechnology solutions to deliver advancements in healthcare and medicine.

 

Utilising its unique technical expertise, the EKF Life Sciences uses precision microbial fermentation and advanced downstream processes to isolate and deliver the highest quality enzymes and biomolecules that have been specially engineered to customer specifications.

 

EKF Life Sciences has two state-of-the-art GMP manufacturing facilities, located within close proximity, in Elkhart and South Bend Indiana, one the US's major life sciences and industrial hotspots. It operates to the highest regulatory standards under cGMP principles, FDA certification and ISO 13485 Quality Program. The facilities include bioreactors ranging from 5L to 14,500L, enabling it to offer an end-to-end service from bench/proof-of-concept through to full scale commercial production, providing its customers with desired yields, precision at scale and cost-efficiency.

 

EKF Lifesciences is also one of the market leaders for the supply of β-HB, a reagent used to detect ketones for patients suffering from diabetic ketoacidosis, as well as many other clinical applications.

 

About EKF Diagnostics Holdings plc (www.ekfdiagnostics.com)

 

EKF is an AIM-listed global diagnostics business focussed on:

 

· Point-of-Care analysers in the key areas of Hematology and Diabetes, as well as Central Laboratory products including clinical chemistry reagents, analysers and centrifuges.

 

· Life Sciences services provide specialist manufacture of enzymes and custom products for use in diagnostic, food and industrial applications, as well as other higher value Contract Manufacturing services.

EKF has headquarters in Penarth (near Cardiff) and operates five manufacturing sites across the US and Germany, selling into over 120 countries world-wide.

 

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)

 

Name

 

 

1. Julian Baines

2. Gavin Jones

3. Stephen Young

4. Christopher Mills

5. Christian Rigg

6. Jennifer Winter

2

 

Reason for the notification

 

a)

 

Position/status

 

 

1. Executive Chair

2. Chief Executive Officer

3. Chief Financial Officer

4. Non-Executive Director

5. Non-Executive Director

6. Non-Executive Director

b)

 

Initial notification /Amendment

 

Initial Notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

 

EKF Diagnostics Holdings plc

b)

 

LEI

 

213800DXTF3EAUK1AR05

 

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 1 pence each

Identification code

GB0031509804

 

b)

 

Nature of the transaction

 

 

Purchase of Ordinary Shares

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

1. 22p

1. 50,000

2. 22p

2. 50,000

3. 22p

3. 50,000

4. 22p

4. 150,000

5. 22p

5. 100,000

6. 22p

6. 150,000

d)

 

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

n/a

- Price

e)

 

Date of the transaction

 

 

 25 March 2025

f)

 

Place of the transaction

 

 

London Stock Exchange, AIMX

 

 

 

 

 

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