Churchill China Regulatory News (CHH)

30 Mar 2005 10:12

Churchill China PLC30 March 2005 Churchill China plc Additional listing and directors' shareholdings On 29th March 2005, Churchill China plc ("the Company") issued 53,000 ordinaryshares of 10 pence each in the Company as a result of the exercise of optionsover it shares, granted in accordance with its share option schemes. Theexercise price of these options was as follows: 7,500 shares at an exercise price of 118.5 pence per share45,500 shares at an exercise price of 151.0 pence per shares. The total shares in issue following the issue of these share will be will be10,847,126 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company. Application has been made for the new ordinary shares to be admitted to tradingon the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange plc ("AIM"). The new ordinaryshares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares in the Company andtrading of these shares on AIM is expected to commence on 4th April 2005. As part of the above, the following directors of the Company exercised shareoptions as listed below: David Taylor exercised share options in respect of 10,000 ordinary shares at anexercise price of 151.0 pence per share under the Company's Executive ShareOption Scheme. Following this transaction Mr Taylor holds an interest in 20,000ordinary shares in the Company, representing approximately 0.2 per cent. of thetotal issued share capital of the Company. Additionally, Mr Taylor retains aninterest in a further 62,500 options over the shares of the Company as follows: No. of options Scheme Exercise period Exercise price 7,500 Unapproved Executive April 2003 to April 118.5p Share Option Scheme 2010 9,500 Executive Share Option December 2003 to 151.0p Scheme December 2010 20,500 Unapproved Executive December 2003 to 151.0p Share Option Scheme December 2010 15,000 Unapproved Executive April 2005 to April 171.0p Share Option Scheme 2012 10,000 Unapproved Executive April 2007 to April 208.0p Share Option Scheme 2014 David O'Connor exercised share options in respect of 7,500 ordinary shares at anexercise price of 118.5 pence per share and 20,500 ordinary shares at anexercise price of 151.0 pence per share under the Company's Unapproved ExecutiveShare Option Scheme. Following this transaction Mr O'Connor holds an interest in32,599 ordinary shares in the Company, representing approximately 0.3 per cent.of the total issued share capital of the Company. Additionally, Mr O'Connorretains an interest in a further 34,750 options over the shares of the Companyas follows: No. of options Scheme Exercise period Exercise price 9,750 Executive Share Option December 2003 to 151.0p Scheme December 2010 15,000 Unapproved Executive April 2005 to April 171.0p Share Option Scheme 2012 4,000 Executive Share Option April 2008 to April 208.0p Scheme 2014 6,000 Unapproved Executive April 2007 to April 208.0p Share Option Scheme 2014 Ralph Grundy exercised share options in respect of 10,000 ordinary shares at anexercise price of 151.0 pence per share under the Company's Executive ShareOption Scheme. Following this transaction Mr Grundy holds an interest in 14,500ordinary shares in the Company, representing approximately 0.1 per cent. of thetotal issued share capital of the Company. Additionally, Mr Grundy retains aninterest in a further 55,000 options over the shares of the Company as follows: No. of options Scheme Exercise period Exercise price 9,500 Executive Share Option December 2003 to 151.0p Scheme December 2010 20,500 Unapproved Executive December 2003 to 151.0p Share Option Scheme December 2010 15,000 Unapproved Executive April 2005 to April 171.0p Share Option Scheme 2012 10,000 Unapproved Executive April 2007 to April 208.0p Share Option Scheme 2014 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange