Ebiquity Regulatory News (EBQ)

12 Apr 2005 07:15

Thomson Intermedia PLC12 April 2005 12 April 2005 THOMSON INTERMEDIA PLC Surrender of Phantom Shares and Grant of Options In the financial year ended 31 January 2004, Thomson Intermedia (the "Company")established a Phantom Share Plan to provide a long-term incentive as part of theperformance bonus for certain Directors. This plan issued phantom shares inaccordance with the performance of the Company. Due to the significant rise in the Company's share price, the phantom shares inissue (equivalent to 1.8% of the share capital) gave rise to a substantialliability and cash requirement, which could continue to escalate with a risingshare price, when they were due to vest in 2007. The Company and Directors havereviewed the incentivisation arrangements of the Company as they pertain to boththe Directors and the Company and as a consequence of this, one action has beenthat the Directors have agreed to waive their rights to the Phantom shares intheir entirety. As a result of the broader review of Directors incentivisation arrangements, on2 February 2005 the Board approved the award of share options to the Directorsto act as an incentive and lock-in. The Company granted the following optionsunder the 2000 Executive Share Option Scheme representing 1.81 per cent. of theOrdinary Shares currently in issue, to the following directors: EMI Options - exercisable between 26 Mar 2007 and 7 Jan 2015: Director Exercise Price Number of Ordinary Shares Total number of Ordinary Shares over which options granted over which options held following this notification David Trendle Nil 41,176 241,176 Paul Gladman Nil 23,529 423,529 Unapproved Options - exercisable between 26 Mar 2007 and 7 Jan 2015: Director Exercise Price Number of Ordinary Shares Total number of Ordinary Shares over which options granted over which options held following this notification Steve Thomson Nil 145,921 145,921 Sarah Jane Thomson Nil 145,921 145,921 David Trendle Nil 78,378 319,554 Paul Gladman Nil 84,922 508,451 For further details please contact: David Trendle Finance Director +44 (0) 20 8466 2903 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange