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Naked Wines plc
For Immediate Release
16 August 2019
Naked Wines plc
("the Company")
Issue of deferred consideration shares
Director/PDMR Shareholdings
The Board of Naked Wines plc are pleased to announce that the Naked Wines business has again met in full the Return on Investment performance conditions relating to the deferred contingent consideration for the third, and final, year of the acquisition earn-out period.
In line with the amounts outlined in the 2015 acquisition agreement, 172,657 new ordinary shares of 7.5p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") have now been issued to 5 members of the management team through an Employee Benefit Trust.
4 PDMR's (Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities) are included in the 5 members of the management team and have notified the Company of the following transactions, to cover tax and national insurance liabilities:
Name | Title | Number of Ordinary Shares awarded | Number of Ordinary Shares sold to cover tax liabilities | Sale price per Ordinary Share | Total number of Ordinary Shares held
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James Crawford | Chief Financial Officer - Naked Wines plc | 53,614 | 25,259 | £2.65053 | *113,499 (*Including persons closely associated) |
Joshua Lincoln Creese | Managing Director Majestic Wine Warehouses Limited | 10,814 | 4,466 | £2.65053 | 20,148 |
Nicholas Devlin | Chief Operating Officer - Naked Wines plc | 15,000 | 6,004 | £2.65053 | 24,345 |
Derek Hardy | Chief Technology Officer - Naked Wines plc | 85,729 | 37,412 | £2.65053 | 159,049 |
In addition, following the satisfaction of performance criteria, an additional third of the following PDMR's consideration shares that were issued at the time of the acquisition in 2015 but were restricted from being traded, have now become unrestricted:
Name | Title | Number of Ordinary Shares unrestricted | Number of Ordinary Shares sold to cover tax liabilities | Sale price per Ordinary Share | Total number of Ordinary Shares held |
Rowan Gormley | Chief Executive Officer Naked Wines plc | 1,080,191 | 500,000 | £2.78504 | 3,894,581 |
The notifications below are provided in accordance with the requirements of Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulations.
For further information, please contact:
Naked Wines plc Rowan Gormley, Chief Executive Officer James Crawford, Chief Financial Officer
| Tel: 01923 298 200 investor.relations@majestic.co.uk
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Investec (NOMAD & Broker) David Flin / Carlton Nelson / David Anderson | Tel: 0207 597 5970 |
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Instinctif Partners (PR Agency) Damian Reece
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Tel: 0207 457 2020 |
NAKED WINES plc
DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
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a) | Name
| James Crawford | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification
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a) | Position/status
| Chief Financial Officer | ||||
b) | Initial notification/ Amendment
| Initial Notification | ||||
3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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a) | Name
| Naked Wines plc
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b) | LEI
| 213800IYPFIRRQQE9R62 | ||||
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
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a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
| Ordinary Shares of 7.5p
GB00B021F836 | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction
| 1) Vesting of Naked Wines acquisition incentive award shares 2) Sale of Ordinary Shares to meet tax and National Insurance liabilities | ||||
c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d) | Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
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1) 25,259
2) GBP 2.65053 | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction
|
15 August 2019 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction
|
London Stock Exchange (XLON); AIM Market | ||||
NAKED WINES plc
DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
| |||||
a) | Name
| Joshua Lincoln Creese | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification
| |||||
a) | Position/status
| Managing Director - Majestic Wine Warehouses Limited | ||||
b) | Initial notification/ Amendment
| Initial Notification | ||||
3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
| |||||
a) | Name
| Naked Wines plc
| ||||
b) | LEI
| 213800IYPFIRRQQE9R62 | ||||
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 7.5p
GB00B021F836 | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction
| 3) Vesting of Naked Wines acquisition incentive award shares 4) Sale of Ordinary Shares to meet tax and National Insurance liabilities | ||||
c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
| ||||
d) | Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
|
1) 4,466
2) GBP 2.65053 | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction
|
15 August 2019 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction
|
London Stock Exchange (XLON); AIM Market | ||||
NAKED WINES plc
DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
| |||||
a) | Name
| Derek Hardy | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification
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a) | Position/status
| Chief Technical Officer | ||||
b) | Initial notification/ Amendment
| Initial Notification | ||||
3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
| |||||
a) | Name
| Naked Wines plc
| ||||
b) | LEI
| 213800IYPFIRRQQE9R62 | ||||
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 7.5p
GB00B021F836 | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction
| 5) Vesting of Naked Wines acquisition incentive award shares 6) Sale of Ordinary Shares to meet tax and National Insurance liabilities | ||||
c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
| ||||
d) | Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
|
1) 37,412
2) GBP 2.65053 | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction
|
15 August 2019 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction
|
London Stock Exchange (XLON); AIM Market | ||||
NAKED WINES plc
DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
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a) | Name
| Nicholas Devlin | ||||
2 | Reason for the notification
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a) | Position/status
| Chief Operating Officer | ||||
b) | Initial notification/ Amendment
| Initial Notification | ||||
3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
| |||||
a) | Name
| Naked Wines plc
| ||||
b) | LEI
| 213800IYPFIRRQQE9R62 | ||||
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 7.5p
GB00B021F836 | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction
| 7) Vesting of Naked Wines acquisition incentive award shares 8) Sale of Ordinary Shares to meet tax and National Insurance liabilities | ||||
c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
| ||||
d) | Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
|
1) 6,004
2) GBP 2.65053 | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction
|
15 August 2019 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction
|
London Stock Exchange (XLON); AIM Market | ||||