1 Apr 2019 12:33
Horizon Discovery Group plc
1 April 2019
Horizon Discovery Group plc
Director/PDMR Shareholding
Cambridge, UK, 1 April 2019: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon", "the Group" or "the Company"), a global leader in gene editing and gene modulation technologies, announces that on 29 March 2019 Mr Terry Pizzie and Mr Jayesh Pankhania, both Executive Directors of the Company, and Dr Ian Gilham and Mr Grahame Cook, both Non-Executive Directors of the Company, purchased ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares").
Details of these purchases of Ordinary Shares, and each Director's resulting beneficial interest in the Company's issued share capital, are shown below:
Name of Director | Number of Ordinary Shares purchased | Average purchase price per share (pence) | Resulting number of Ordinary Shares held | Resulting number of Ordinary Shares held as a percentage of the Company's issued share capital |
Mr Terry Pizzie | 15,000 | 147.5 | 15,000 | 0.0100% |
Mr Jayesh Pankhania* | 13,533 | 147.7 | 13,533 | 0.0090% |
Dr Ian Gilham* | 13,549 | 147.6 | 70,037 | 0.0466% |
Mr Grahame Cook** | 20,150 | 149.0 | 62,400 | 0.0415% |
*Purchased for ISA
**Purchased for Self-Invested Personal Pension fund
The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail.
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 | Terry Pizzie | |
2 | Reason for the notification | ||
a) | Position/status | Chief Executive Officer - 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 | Horizon Discovery Group plc | |
b) | Legal Entity Identifier | 213800L812B9NI5M3G89 | |
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 1.0 pence each GB00BK8FL363 | |
b) | Nature of the transaction | Purchase of shares | |
c) | Currency | GBP | |
d) | Price(s) and volume(s) | Average Price | No. of shares |
£1.475 | 15,000
| ||
e) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total |
15,000 £1.475 £22,125 | |
f) | Date of the transaction | 29 March 2019 | |
g) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange, AIM | |
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | ||
a) | Name | Jayesh Pankhania | |
2 | Reason for the notification | ||
a) | Position/status | Chief Financial Officer - 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 | Horizon Discovery Group plc | |
b) | Legal Entity Identifier | 213800L812B9NI5M3G89 | |
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 1.0 pence each GB00BK8FL363 | |
b) | Nature of the transaction | Purchase of shares | |
c) | Currency | GBP | |
d) | Price(s) and volume(s) | Average Price | No. of shares |
£1.476837 | 13,533
| ||
e) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total |
13,533 £1.476837 £19,986.04 | |
f) | Date of the transaction | 29 March 2019 | |
g) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange, AIM | |
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | ||
a) | Name | Ian Gilham | |
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 | Horizon Discovery Group plc | |
b) | Legal Entity Identifier | 213800L812B9NI5M3G89 | |
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 1.0 pence each GB00BK8FL363 | |
b) | Nature of the transaction | Purchase of shares | |
c) | Currency | GBP | |
d) | Price(s) and volume(s) | Average Price | No. of shares |
£1.47612 | 13,549
| ||
e) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total |
13,549 £1.47612 £19,999.95 | |
f) | Date of the transaction | 29 March 2019 | |
g) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange, AIM | |
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | ||
a) | Name | Grahame Cook | |
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 | Horizon Discovery Group plc | |
b) | Legal Entity Identifier | 213800L812B9NI5M3G89 | |
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 1.0 pence each GB00BK8FL363 | |
b) | Nature of the transaction | Purchase of shares | |
c) | Currency | GBP | |
d) | Price(s) and volume(s) | Average Price | No. of shares |
£1.49 | 20,150
| ||
e) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total |
20,150 £1.49 £30,023.50 | |
f) | Date of the transaction | 29 March 2019 | |
g) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange, AIM | |
ENDS
For further information from Horizon Discovery Group plc, please contact:
Horizon Discovery Group plc
Terry Pizzie, Chief Executive Officer
Jayesh Pankhania, Chief Financial Officer
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 655 580
Numis Securities Limited (Broker and NOMAD)
Freddie Barnfield / James Black / Duncan Monteith
Tel: +44 (0) 207 260 1000
Consilium Strategic Communications (Financial Media and Investor Relations)
Mary-Jane Elliott / Matthew Neal / Melissa Gardiner
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3709 5700
Email: horizon@consilium-comms.com
About Horizon Discovery Group plc www.horizondiscovery.com
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon") is a world leader in gene editing and gene modulation technologies. Horizon designs and engineers cells using its translational genomics platform, a highly precise and flexible suite of DNA editing tools (rAAV, ZFN, CRISPR and Transposon) and, following the acquisition of Dharmacon, Inc., its functional genomics platform comprising gene knockdown (RNAi) and gene expression (cDNA, ORF) tools, for research and clinical applications that advance human health. Horizon's platforms and capabilities enable researchers to alter almost any gene or modulate its function in human or mammalian cell-lines.
Horizon offers an extensive range of catalogue products and related research services to support a greater understanding of the function of genes across all species and the genetic drivers of human disease and the development of personalised molecular, cell and gene therapies. These have been adopted by over 10,000 academic, drug discovery, drug manufacturing and clinical diagnostics customers around the globe, as well as in the Company's own R&D pipeline.
Horizon is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, and is listed on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market under the ticker "HZD".