Last checked at 3 Apr 2017 07:00
3 April 2017
Forbidden Technologies plc
("Forbidden" or the "Company")
Grant of Share Options
Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT), the AIM-quoted owner and developer of Forscene (the market-leading cloud video platform) announces that on 31 March 2017 options over the Company's ordinary shares of 0.8p were granted to the directors listed below:
Name | Title | Number of options | Exercise price | Number of options held post grant |
David Main | Non-Executive Chairman | 500,000 | 6.0p | 1,445,000 |
Andrew Bentley | Non-Executive Director | 200,000 | 6.0p | 400,000 |
James Irving | Non-Executive Director | 200,000 | 6.0p | 400,000 |
Stephen Streater | Chief Technical Officer | 250,000 | 6.0p | 250,000 |
Jonathan Lees | Chief Financial Officer | 250,000 | 6.0p | 1,320,000 |
The options were granted under the Company's EMI share option scheme.
Following the above grant, there are a total of 3,815,000 incentive share options granted over unissued Ordinary Shares granted to Directors and PDMRs, representing 2.11% of the Company's current issued Ordinary Share capital of 180,486,199 Ordinary Shares.
Details of the Options granted to the following Directors and persons who discharge managerial responsibilities ("PDMRs") today are set out below:
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 | David Main | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status | Non-Executive Chairman | ||||
b)
| Initial notification /Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
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| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a) | Name | Forbidden Technologies plc | ||||
b) | LEI | N/A | ||||
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 0.8p each in Forbidden Technologies plc Identification code (ISIN) for Forbidden Technologies plc ordinary shares: GB0004740477
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b) | Nature of the transaction | Grant of options over ordinary shares
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c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price | N/A | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 31 March 2017 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange, AIM (FBT) | ||||
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
a) | Name | Andrew Bentley | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status | 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 | Forbidden Technologies plc | ||||
b) | LEI | N/A | ||||
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 0.8p each in Forbidden Technologies plc Identification code (ISIN) for Forbidden Technologies plc ordinary shares: GB0004740477
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b) | Nature of the transaction | Grant of options over ordinary shares
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c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price | N/A | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 31 March 2017 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange, AIM (FBT) | ||||
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
a) | Name | James Irving | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status | 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 | Forbidden Technologies plc | ||||
b) | LEI | N/A | ||||
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 0.8p each in Forbidden Technologies plc Identification code (ISIN) for Forbidden Technologies plc ordinary shares: GB0004740477
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b) | Nature of the transaction | Grant of options over ordinary shares
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c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price | N/A | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 31 March 2017 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange, AIM (FBT) | ||||
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
a) | Name | Stephen Streater | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status | Chief Technical Officer | ||||
b)
| Initial notification /Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a) | Name | Forbidden Technologies plc | ||||
b) | LEI | N/A | ||||
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 0.8p each in Forbidden Technologies plc Identification code (ISIN) for Forbidden Technologies plc ordinary shares: GB0004740477
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b) | Nature of the transaction | Grant of options over ordinary shares
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c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price | N/A | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 31 March 2017 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange, AIM (FBT) | ||||
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
a) | Name | Jonathan Lees | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status | Chief Financial Officer | ||||
b)
| Initial notification /Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a) | Name | Forbidden Technologies plc | ||||
b) | LEI | N/A | ||||
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| 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 0.8p each in Forbidden Technologies plc Identification code (ISIN) for Forbidden Technologies plc ordinary shares: GB0004740477
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b) | Nature of the transaction | Grant of options over ordinary shares
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c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price | N/A | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 31 March 2017 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange, AIM (FBT) | ||||
Enquiries:
Forbidden Technologies plc
David Main, Chairman
Jonathan Lees, Chief Financial Officer
Tel: +44 (0)20 8879 7245
Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)
Nick Naylor
John Depasquale
Richard Short
Katrina Perez
Tel: +44 (0)20 3328 5656
Redleaf Communications (Financial PR Adviser)
Rebecca Sanders-Hewett
David Ison
Susie Hudson
Tel: +44 (0)20 7382 4730
Email: forbidden@redleafpr.com
About Forbidden Technologies plc
Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT, www.forbidden.co.uk) floated in February 2000.
Company develops and markets a powerful cloud video platform with multiple applications which can be used by rights holders, broadcasters, sports and news video specialists, post-production houses, other mass market digital video channels, corporates and consumers. The platform applications help customers improve their time to market on time sensitive content, and efficiently exploit the full value of their content.
Websites:
www.forbidden.co.uk
www.forscene.com
Social media:
www.facebook.com/FORscene
www.plus.google.com/+Forscenepro/posts
www.linkedin.com/company/forscene
www.twitter.com/forscenepro
www.youtube.com/user/ForsceneTraining