5 May 2017 13:54
5 May 2017
Northbridge Industrial Services Plc
("Northbridge" or the "Group")
Changes to share option plans
Northbridge Industrial Services Plc today announces two new share option plans. A new tax-favoured Schedule 4 CSOP share option plan and a new unapproved share option plan were approved by the Board of Directors on 3 May 2017. These plans replace the previous schemes which closed to new option awards in 2016.
As a result of the significant fall in the Company's share price over the last couple of years, the current share price is well below the exercise price of many of the outstanding awards made prior to 2016. The Remuneration Committee believe that this fall is due to adverse market conditions and has decided to extend the life of all options granted between 2006 and 2014 to give option holders more time to exercise their options.
It was agreed that the lives of the outstanding options granted would be extended as follows:
Option grant year | Extension period |
2006-2010 | 5 years |
2011 | 4 years |
2012 | 3 years |
2013 | 2 years |
2014 | 1 year |
As the new schemes have now been set up and to avoid making changes to the previous schemes, all of the outstanding options granted under the previous schemes will be surrendered and replaced by options granted under the new schemes with same terms as the surrendered options.
Directors' options
The following options have been granted to Directors in the new schemes to replace the options held in the previous schemes. The only changes to the options relate to the extension of the options granted between 2006 and 2014 as detailed above.
Director | Scheme | Number of options Granted | Exercise period | Exercise Price (p) | |
Eric Hook | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 118,659 | 05/05/17 - 30/05/21 | 100.64 | |
Eric Hook | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 102,746 | 05/05/17 - 02/04/22 | 146.96 | |
Eric Hook | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 41,098 | 05/05/17 - 09/04/23 | 150.86 |
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Eric Hook | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 41,098 | 05/05/17 - 20/04/24 | 149.88 |
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Eric Hook | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 120,000 | 05/05/17 - 30/09/25 | 186.00 |
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Eric Hook | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 75,000 | 05/05/17 - 21/04/25 | 237.00 |
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Eric Hook | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 60,000 | 05/05/17 - 18/04/25 | 281.50 |
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Eric Hook | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 48,000 | 05/05/17 - 18/04/25 | 327.50 |
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Eric Hook | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 50,000 | 05/05/17 - 10/04/25 | 453.50 |
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Eric Hook | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 50,000 | 17/04/18 - 17/04/25 | 377.50 |
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Eric Hook | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 100,000 | 10/05/19 - 10/05/26 | 89.50 |
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Ian Gardner | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 20,000 | 05/05/17 - 18/04/25 | 281.50 |
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Ian Gardner | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 16,000 | 05/05/17 - 18/04/25 | 327.50 |
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Ian Gardner | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 20,000 | 05/05/17 - 10/04/25 | 453.50 |
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Ian Gardner | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 20,000 | 17/04/18 - 17/04/25 | 377.50 |
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Ian Gardner | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 20,000 | 10/05/19 - 10/05/26 | 89.50 |
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Iwan Phillips | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 10,000 | 05/05/17 - 18/04/25 | 281.50 |
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Iwan Phillips | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 8,000 | 05/05/17 - 18/04/25 | 327.50 |
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Iwan Phillips | Schedule 4 CSOP Share Options Scheme | 4,102 | 05/05/17 - 10/04/25 | 453.50 |
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Iwan Phillips | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 3,898 | 05/05/17 - 10/04/25 | 453.50 |
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Iwan Phillips | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 6,981 | 17/04/18 - 17/04/25 | 377.50 |
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Iwan Phillips | Schedule 4 CSOP Share Options Scheme | 3,019 | 17/04/18 - 17/04/25 | 377.50 |
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Iwan Phillips | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 20,000 | 10/05/19 - 10/05/26 | 89.50 |
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The Director's share options held before and after the changes explained above are summarised as follows:
Director | Scheme | Number of options after the changes | |
Number of options prior to the changes | |||
Eric Hook | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 799,986 | 806,601 |
Eric Hook | Schedule 4 CSOP Share Options Scheme | 6,615 | 0 |
Ian Gardner | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 96,000 | 96,000 |
Iwan Phillips | Unapproved Share Options Scheme | 48,879 | 48,879 |
Iwan Phillips | Schedule 4 CSOP Share Options Scheme | 7,121 | 7,121 |
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For further information
Northbridge Industrial Services Plc 01283 531645
Eric Hook, Chief Executive Officer
Iwan Phillips, Finance Director
Stockdale Securities Limited (Bookrunner, Nominated Adviser and Broker) 020 7601 6100
Robert Finlay / Antonio Bossi / Henry Willcocks
Buchanan Communications 020 7466 5000
Charles Ryland / Stephanie Watson/ Catriona Flint
About Northbridge:
Northbridge Industrial Services plc hires and sells specialist industrial equipment. With offices or agents in the UK, USA, Dubai, Belgium, Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, China, Brazil and South Korea, Northbridge has a global customer base. This includes utility companies, the oil and gas sector, shipping, banking, mining, construction and the public sector. The product range includes loadbanks, transformers and oil tools. Northbridge was admitted to AIM in 2006 since when it has grown by providing a high level of service, responsiveness and flexibility to customers, by the acquisition of companies in the UK, Dubai, Australia, Belgium, New Zealand and Singapore and through investing further in those acquired companies to make them more successful. Northbridge continues to seek suitable businesses for acquisition across the world.