1 Apr 2016 14:00
Metal Tiger Plc
1 April 2016
Metal Tiger Plc
("Metal Tiger" or the "Company")
DIRECTOR SHARE PURCHASE
Metal Tiger plc (LON:MTR) the London Stock Exchange AIM listed investor in strategic natural resource projects, announces that the Company has been notified that on Friday 1st April 2016 Paul Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of Metal Tiger, purchased through the market 100,000 ordinary shares of 0.01 pence in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at an average price of 4.00 pence per share.
Following this transaction, Paul Johnson has a beneficial interest in 8,850,000 Ordinary Shares and Michelle Johnson, wife of Paul Johnson 750,000 Ordinary Shares which together total 9,600,000 shares and represent 1.97% of the issued share capital of the Company after reflecting the admission of stock relating to warrant conversions and the purchase of 4,815,667 shares by Dianne Grammer wife of Terry Grammer, Metal Tiger plc Non-Executive Chairman, recently announced.
Listed below is a summary of the director transactions undertaken in Metal Tiger plc to date and the current shareholdings of all board members.
Director Transactions in Metal Tiger plc July 2014 to April 2016:
Date | Director | Trade Type | Description | No. Shares | Price Paid (p) | Amount (£) |
01.04.16 29.03.16 10.03.15 09.03.16 09.03.16 07.03.16 04.03.16 | Paul Johnson Terry Grammer Paul Johnson Paul Johnson Terry Grammer Paul Johnson Paul Johnson | Buy Spouse-Buy Spouse-Buy Buy Buy Spouse-Buy Buy | On Market Placing On Market On Market Option Exercise On Market On Market | 100,000 4,815,667 250,000 250.000 3,335,000 500,000 705,000 | 4.00 2.75 1.39 1.28 1.50 1.25 1.17 | 4,000 132,431 3,475 3,200 50,025 6,250 8,250 |
16.12.15 | Paul Johnson | Buy | On Market | 500,000 | 0.83 | 4,150 |
14.12.15 | Terry Grammer | Buy | Placing | 30,000,000 | 0.80 | 240,000 |
10.07.15 | Cameron Parry | Buy | Option Exercise | 2,500,000 | 1.00 | 25,000 |
10.07.15 | Paul Johnson | Buy | Option Exercise | 1,670,000 | 1.00 | 16,700 |
10.07.15 | Alex Borrelli | Buy | Option Exercise | 500,000 | 1.00 | 5,000 |
06.07.15 | Paul Johnson | Buy | On Market | 1,500,000 | 0.97 | 14,500 |
29.12.14 | Paul Johnson | Buy | On Market | 250,000 | 0.98 | 2,440 |
15.12.14 | Paul Johnson | Buy | On Market | 375,000 | 0.85 | 3,188 |
18.07.14 | Paul Johnson | Buy | Off Market | 3,500,000 | 0.50 | 17,500 |
18.07.14 | Alex Borrelli | Buy | Off Market | 2,500,000 | 0.50 | 12,500 |
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| 53,000,917 |
| 548,609 |
(Note: the price paid in the table above and the % of issued share capital in the table below have been rounded to two decimal places)
Director Shareholdings (including related parties) in Metal Tiger plc at 1st April 2016 (including the warrant exercise today):
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Terry Grammer (Chairman) | 38,150,667 |
| 7.82% |
| £422,456 | |
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Paul Johnson (CEO) | 9,600,000 |
| 1.97% |
| £83,653 | |
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Cameron Parry (NED) | 2,500,000 |
| 0.51% |
| £25,000 | |
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Alex Borrelli (NED) | 5,400,000 |
| 1.11% |
| £17,500 | |
For further information on the Company, visit: www.metaltigerplc.com:
Paul Johnson (Chief Executive Officer) |
| Tel: +44 (0)7766 465 617 |
Terry Grammer (Non- Executive Chairman) |
| Tel: +44 (0)207 099 0738 |
Sean Wyndham-Quin Neil Baldwin Nick Emerson Andy Thacker | Spark Advisory Partners Limited (Nominated Adviser) SI Capital (Sole Broker)
| Tel: +44 (0) 2033 683 555 www.sparkadvisorypartners.com Tel: +44 (0) 1483 413 500 |
Notes to Editors:
Metal Tiger plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM Market ("AIM") with the trading code MTR and invests in high potential mineral projects with a precious and strategic metals focus.
The Company's target is to deliver a very high return for shareholders by investing in significantly undervalued and/or high potential opportunities in the mineral exploration and development sector timed to coincide, where possible, with a cyclical recovery in the exploration and mining markets. The Company's key strategic objective is to ensure the distribution to shareholders of major returns achieved from disposals.
Metal Tiger's Metal Projects Division is focused on the development of its key project interests in Botswana, Spain and Thailand. In Botswana Metal Tiger has a growing interest in the large and highly prospective Kalahari copper/silver belt. In Spain Metal Tiger the Company has tungsten and gold interests in the highly mineralised Extremadura region. In Thailand Metal Tiger has expanding interests over licences, applications and critical historical data covering antimony, copper, gold, silver, lead and zinc opportunities.
The Company has access to a diverse pipeline of new opportunities focused on the natural resource sector including physical resource projects, new natural resource centred technologies and resource sector related fintech opportunities. Pipeline projects deemed commercially may be undertaken by Metal Tiger or by an ISDX or AIM partner with whom the Company is engaged.
Metal Tiger also has an Asset Trading Division that holds various financial instruments for trading purposes including equities, warrants and royalty income. The aim of the division is to generate profits to reinvest into the Company's project based activities.