3rd Feb 2026 07:00
3 February 2026
Michelmersh Brick Holdings Plc
("MBH", the "Company" or the "Group")
EBT Share Purchase & Total Voting Rights
On 2 February 2026, the Company agreed with Truchot Trustees Limited, the trustee of the Michelmersh Brick Holdings Plc Employee Benefit Trust (the "EBT"), for the EBT to purchase ordinary shares of 20p each ("Ordinary Shares") from treasury at market price. On 2 February 2026, the EBT purchased 357,427 of Ordinary Shares at the market price of 84.0 pence per Ordinary Share. These Ordinary Shares will be held in the EBT and are intended to be used to satisfy the exercise of share options by employees. The EBT is a discretionary trust for the benefit of the Company's employees, including the Directors of the Company. The purchase of Ordinary Shares was funded by an existing loan from the Company to the EBT.
Following this transaction, a total of 1,243,627 Ordinary Shares will be held by the EBT, representing approximately 1.4 per cent of the Company's total voting rights.
Following the purchase by the EBT, the number of Ordinary Shares in issue and admitted to trading on AIM will be 91,903,579 (excluding treasury shares), and the Company will hold 4,000,000 ordinary shares in treasury.
This figure of 91,903,579 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
For further information, please contact:
Michelmersh Brick Holdings Plc Ryan Mahoney, Chief Executive Officer Rachel Warren, Chief Financial Officer
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Tel: +44 (0)1825 430 412
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Canaccord Genuity Limited (NOMAD and Broker) Max Hartley Bobbie Hilliam Harry Pardoe
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Alma Strategic Communications Andrew Jaques Sam Modlin Kinvara Verdon Louisa El-Ahwal | Tel: +44 (0) 20 3405 [email protected]
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About Michelmersh Brick Holdings PLC:
Michelmersh Brick Holdings PLC is a business with seven market leading brands: Blockleys, Carlton, Charnwood, Freshfield Lane, Michelmersh, Floren and Hathern Terra Cotta. These divisions operate within a fully integrated business combining the manufacture of clay bricks and pavers. The Group also includes a landfill operator, New Acres Limited, and seeks to develop future landfill and development opportunities on ancillary land assets.
Established in 1997, the Company has grown through acquisition and organic growth into a profitable and asset rich business, producing over 120 million clay bricks and pavers per annum. Michelmersh currently owns most of the UK's premium manufacturing brick brands and is a leading specification brick and clay paving manufacturer.
Michelmersh strives to be a well invested, long term, sustainable, environmentally responsible business. Opportunity, training and security for all employees, whilst meeting the needs of stakeholders are at the forefront of everything we do. We aim to lead the way in producing some of Britain's premium clay products and enhancing our environment by adding value to the architectural landscape for generations to come.
We are Michelmersh Brick Holdings PLC: we are "Britain's Brick Specialist".
Please visit the Group's websites at: www.mbhplc.co.uk and www.bimbricks.com
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