RNS Number : 5316U
Warpaint London PLC
24 November 2023
 

24 November 2023

 

 

Warpaint London PLC

("Warpaint", the "Company" or the "Group")

 

Grant of Options

 

Directors/PDMR Shareholding

Warpaint London plc (AIM: W7L), the specialist supplier of colour cosmetics and owner of the W7 and Technic brands, announces that, on 24 November 2023, it granted 808,500 options ("Options") over Ordinary Shares of 25p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to certain Group employees under the Warpaint London PLC share option schemes. The Options have been granted pursuant to the Company's annual review of remuneration and incentivisation packages.

The Options are exercisable at a price of 325 pence per Ordinary Share, being the closing mid-price on 23 November 2023. The Options are excercisable from 24 November 2026 until 24 November 2033. The Options are not subject to the satisfaction of any performance criteria.

Included within the 808,500 Options granted, the following grants were made to PDMRs:


Position

Number of Options granted

Total number of options held post grant

Summary of options held and grant date

Neil Rodol

Chief Financial Officer

120,000

676,996

306,996 (LTIP)

24,590 (CSOP)

225,410 (non-qualifying)

9,230 CSOP

110,770 (non-qualifying)

21 September 2018

24 May 2021

24 May 2021

 

24 November 2023

24 November 2023

Sally Craig

General Counsel & Company Secretary

10,000

30,000

10,000 (EMI)

10,000 (CSOP)

10,000 (CSOP)

29 June 2017

20 May 2020

24 November 2023

Matthew Goldstein

Managing Director Retra

75,000

225,000

150,000 (non-qualifying)

18,461 CSOP

56,539 (non-qualifying)

24 May 2021

 

24 November 2023

24 November 2023

Following the grant of the 808,500 Options the total number of options in issue over Ordinary Shares is 5,372,699 representing approximately 6.95% of the Company's current issued share capital.

The information in the below notification is disclosed in accordance with Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Neil Rodol

2

Reason for the notification

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

a)

Name

Warpaint London PLC

b)

LEI

213800EBJ2CN6KIDCO78

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 25p each

 

 

GB00BYMF3676

b)

Nature of the transaction

Grant of Option

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

  Price(s)

Volume(s)

325 p

120,000

 

d)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

N/A Single Transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

24 November 2023

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a Trading Venue

 

 

 

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Sally Craig

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

General Counsel & Company Secretary

b)

 

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial notification

3

 

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Warpaint London PLC

b)

LEI

213800EBJ2CN6KIDCO78

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 25p each

 

 

GB00BYMF3676

b)

Nature of the transaction

Grant of Option

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

  Price(s)

Volume(s)

325 p

10,000

 

d)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

N/A Single Transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

24 November 2023

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a Trading Venue

 

 

 

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Matthew Goldstein

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Managing Director Retra

b)

 

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial notification

3

 

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Warpaint London PLC

b)

LEI

213800EBJ2CN6KIDCO78

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 25p each

 

 

GB00BYMF3676

b)

Nature of the transaction

Grant of Option

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

  Price(s)

Volume(s)

325 p

75,000

 

d)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

N/A Single Transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

24 November 2023

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a Trading Venue

 

 

 

Enquiries:

Warpaint London

Sam Bazini - Chief Executive Officer

Eoin Macleod - Managing Director

Neil Rodol - Chief Financial Officer

 

c/o IFC

 

Shore Capital (Nominated Adviser & Broker)

Patrick Castle, Daniel Bush - Corporate Advisory

Fiona Conroy - Corporate Broking

 

020 7408 4090

IFC Advisory (Financial PR & IR)

Tim Metcalfe, Graham Herring, Florence Chandler

020 3934 6630

 

 

Warpaint London plc

 

Warpaint sells branded cosmetics under the lead brand names of W7 and Technic. W7 is sold in the UK primarily to retailers and internationally to local distributors or retail chains. The Technic brand is sold in the UK and continental Europe with a significant focus on the gifting market, principally for high street retailers and supermarkets.  In addition, Warpaint supplies own brand white label cosmetics produced for several major high street retailers.  The Group also sells cosmetics using its other brand names of Man'stuff, Body Collection and Chit Chat.

 

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