15th May 2006 16:16
Albemarle & Bond Holdings PLC15 May 2006 ALBEMARLE & BOND HOLDINGS PLC "the Company" The Company announces that it has today received notices, pursuant to S.324Companies Act 1985, from Mr Greville Vincent Nicholls and Mr David AlistairLouden Page, both being directors of the Company, relating to the exercise ofoptions as follows: Name Scheme No. Exercised Exercise Price(per share) G V Nicholls Unapproved 75,000 Ordinary shares of 4p each £0.455 D A L Page Unapproved 30,000 Ordinary shares of 4p each £0.475 Following the above transactions Mr Nicholls' beneficial interest in theCompany's shares will be 880,652 Ordinary 4p shares, which is equivalent to1.89% of the Company's issued share capital; and Mr Page's beneficial interestin the Company's issued share capital will be 537,352 Ordinary 4p shares, whichis equivalent to 1.15% of the Company's issued share capital. In addition, both Mr Nicholls and Mr Page are directors of Albemarle & BondTrustee Limited, the Trustee of the Albemarle & Bond Pawnbrokers EmployeesBenefit Trust which holds 308,250 Ordinary 4p shares in the Company. Aggregating personal holdings and the holding of the Trustee, Mr Nicholls is considered to be interested in 1,188,902 Ordinary 4p shares, which is equivalent to 2.56% of the Company's issued share capital; and Mr Page is considered to be interested in 845,602 Ordinary 4p shares, which is equivalent to 1.82% of the Company's issued share capital. The Company further announces that that application has today been made for105,000 new Ordinary 4p shares to be admitted to listing pursuant to theexercise of share options under the unapproved share option scheme detailedabove. It is expected that dealings will commence in the new ordinary shares on19 May 2006. Following the exercise of share options the issued share capital of the Company will be increased from 46,413,056 Ordinary shares of 4p each to46,518,056 Ordinary shares of 4p each. Date: 15 May 2006 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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