Last checked at 9 Feb 2022 13:30
For immediate release 9 February 2022
RWS Holdings plc
Option exercise and increase in share capital
RWS Holdings plc ("RWS" or "the Company"), a world leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property support services, announces that 10,462 new ordinary shares of 1 pence each in RWS ("RWS Shares") were issued today in order to satisfy the exercise of options by a number of employees under the SDL plc 2018 Sharesave Scheme (which was rolled over into an RWS scheme at the time of RWS's acquisition of SDL plc in November 2020). These options had an exercise price of 258.04 pence per share. Admission is expected to take place at 8.00 am on 15 February 2022.
Following this exercise, the Company's issued share capital comprises 389,432,286 RWS Shares. RWS has no RWS Shares held in treasury. The above figure includes 55,896 RWS Shares that are held by the RWS Holdings plc Employee Benefit Trust in order to satisfy awards under the Company's employee share schemes. Therefore shareholders may use the figure of 389,376,390 as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, RWS under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
For further information, please visit: www.rws.com.
RWS Holdings plc 01753 480200
Andrew Brode, Chairman
Ian El-Mokadem, Chief Executive Officer
Des Glass, Chief Financial Officer
MHP (Financial PR advisor) rws@mhpc.com
Katie Hunt / Simon Hockridge 0203 128 8100
Numis (Nomad & Joint Broker) 0207 260 1000
Stuart Skinner / Kevin Cruickshank / Will Baunton
Berenberg (Joint Broker) 0203 207 7800
Ben Wright / Toby Flaux / Alix Mecklenburg-Solodkoff