Cerillion plc
("Cerillion" or the "Company")
Employee Share Option Scheme and PDMR dealing
Cerillion, the billing, charging and customer relationship management ("CRM") software solutions provider, announces an award of options under an HMRC approved Cerillion plc Save-As-You-Earn Option Plan (the "Plan"). Under the Plan, employees contribute a monthly amount that will be saved over three years to enable the exercise of options over ordinary shares of 0.5 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares"). The options will be available for exercise from 1 July 2028 with an exercise price of £15.04, which represents a 20% discount to the closing share price for an Ordinary Share on 2 June 2025.
Options were granted to 38 employees over a total of 22,114 Ordinary Shares. Details of the grant to the Company's PDMR who elected to subscribe for options in the 2025 SAYE scheme are shown below:
| Name | Job title | Options granted |
| Mark Nicholls | Chief Operating Officer | 718 |
| Brian Coombs | Product Director | 718 |
| Amit McCann | Account Development Director | 718 |
| Andrew Smith | Marketing Director | 718 |
Enquiries:
| Cerillion plc | c/o KTZ Communications |
| Louis Hall, CEO | T: 020 3178 6378 |
| Andrew Dickson, CFO | |
| Panmure Liberum Limited (Nomad and Joint Broker) | T: 020 3100 2000 |
| Bidhi Bhoma, Edward Mansfield, Freddie Wooding | |
| Singer Capital Markets (Joint Broker) | T: 020 7496 3000 |
| Rick Thompson, James Fischer | |
| KTZ Communications | T: 020 3178 6378 |
| Katie Tzouliadis, Robert Morton | |
About Cerillion
Cerillion has a 25-year track record in providing mission-critical software for billing, charging and customer relationship management ("CRM"), mainly to the telecommunications sector but also to other markets, including utilities and financial services. The Company has c. 75 customer installations across c. 45 countries.
Headquartered in London, Cerillion also has operations in India and Bulgaria as well as a sales presence in the USA, Singapore and Australia.
The business was originally part of Logica plc before its management buyout, led by CEO, Louis Hall, in 1999. The Company joined AIM in March 2016.
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| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
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| Name | Mark Nicholls | ||||
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| Reason for the notification
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| Position/status | Chief Operating Officer | ||||
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| Initial notification /Amendment | Initial Notification | ||||
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| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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| Name | Cerillion PLC | ||||
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| LEI | 213800ISIZMUC3P46850 | ||||
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| 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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| Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code
| Ordinary shares of GBP 0.005 each GB00BYYX6C66 | ||||
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| Nature of the transaction
| Grant of options
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| Price(s) and volume(s)
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| Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price |
718 Ordinary Shares £15.04
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| Date of the transaction | 1 July 2025 | ||||
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| Place of the transaction
| Off market | ||||
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| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
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| Name | Brian Coombs | ||||
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| Reason for the notification
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| a)
| Position/status | Product Director | ||||
| b)
| Initial notification /Amendment | Initial Notification | ||||
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| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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| a)
| Name | Cerillion PLC | ||||
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| LEI | 213800ISIZMUC3P46850 | ||||
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| 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 GBP 0.005 each GB00BYYX6C66 | ||||
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| Nature of the transaction
| Grant of options
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| c)
| Price(s) and volume(s)
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| d)
| Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price |
718 Ordinary Shares £15.04
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| e)
| Date of the transaction | 1 July 2025 | ||||
| f)
| Place of the transaction
| Off market | ||||
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| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
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| a)
| Name | Amit McCann | ||||
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| Reason for the notification
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| a)
| Position/status | Account Development Director | ||||
| b)
| Initial notification /Amendment | Initial Notification | ||||
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| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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| a)
| Name | Cerillion PLC | ||||
| b)
| LEI | 213800ISIZMUC3P46850 | ||||
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| 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 GBP 0.005 each GB00BYYX6C66 | ||||
| b)
| Nature of the transaction
| Grant of options
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| c)
| Price(s) and volume(s)
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| d)
| Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price |
718 Ordinary Shares £15.04
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| e)
| Date of the transaction | 1 July 2025 | ||||
| f)
| Place of the transaction
| Off market | ||||
| 1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
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| a)
| Name | Andrew Smith | ||||
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| Reason for the notification
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| a)
| Position/status | Marketing Director | ||||
| b)
| Initial notification /Amendment | Initial Notification | ||||
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| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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| a)
| Name | Cerillion PLC | ||||
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| LEI | 213800ISIZMUC3P46850 | ||||
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| 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 GBP 0.005 each GB00BYYX6C66 | ||||
| b)
| Nature of the transaction
| Grant of options
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| c)
| Price(s) and volume(s)
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| d)
| Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price |
718 Ordinary Shares £15.04
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| e)
| Date of the transaction | 1 July 2025 | ||||
| f)
| Place of the transaction
| Off market | ||||
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