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SDI Group plc
("SDI", the "Company", or the "Group")
Director / PDMR Shareholding
2 March 2026 - SDI Group plc, the buy and build group, focused on companies which design and manufacture specialist lab equipment, industrial & scientific sensors and industrial & scientific products, has been informed that Ken Ford, Non-Executive Chair, has sold 235,217 ordinary shares of £0.01 each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), to facilitate family financial planning.
Following this transaction, Ken Ford remains a material shareholder and now holds 970,000 Ordinary Shares in the Company, which represents approximately 0.93% of its issued share capital.
The notification below is made in accordance with the requirements of the Market Abuse Regulation and provides further detail.
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |
a) | Name | Ken Ford |
2 | Reason for Notification | |
a) | Position/status | Chairman |
b) | Initial notification / Amendment | Initial notification |
3 | Details of the issuers, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |
a) | Name | SDI Group plc |
b) | LEI | 213800YA3XW7JRE46Z70 |
4 | Details of the transaction(s): section to be replaced for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date (iv) each place where transaction have been conducted | |
a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code | Ordinary shares of 1 pence each
GB00B3FBWW43 |
b) | Nature of the transaction | Sale of ordinary shares
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c) | Price(s) and volumes(s) | 79.00 pence per share 235,217 |
d) | Aggregated information-Aggregated volume -Price |
235,217 79.00 pence per share
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e) | Date of the transaction | 2 March 2026 |
f) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange |
Enquiries:
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| SDI Group plc Stephen Brown, Chief Executive Officer Amitabh Sharma, Chief Financial Officer James Dimitriou, Group Head of Corporate Development
| +44 (0)1223 727144 www.sdigroup.com |
| Cavendish Capital Markets Ltd (NOMAD & Joint Corporate Broker) Ed Frisby / Seamus Fricker - Corporate Finance Andrew Burdis / Sunila de Silva - Corporate Broking
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+44 (0)20 7220 0500 |
| Stifel (Joint Corporate Broker) Fred Walsh / Brough Ransom / Ben Good
| +44 (0) 20 7710 7600 |
| Vigo Consulting (Financial Communications) Tim McCall / Rozi Morris / Fiona Hetherington
| +44 (0)20 7390 0230 SDIGroup@vigoconsulting.com |
About SDI Group plc
SDI Group plc is a group of small to medium size companies with specialist industrial and scientific products in growth sector niches which help solve customers' key challenges.
It specialises in the acquisition and development of companies that design and manufacture specialist products for use in lab equipment, industrial & scientific sensors and industrial & scientific products.
Its portfolio of businesses supplies the life sciences, healthcare, plastics and packaging, manufacturing, precision optics and measurement instrumentation markets.
SDI aims to continue its growth through driving the organic growth of its portfolio companies and by the acquisition of complementary technology businesses with established reputations in global markets.
For more information, please see: www.SDIGroup.com
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