SAYE Share Scheme 2025 and Director Dealing
SAYE share scheme 2025 granted to 211 employees with options over 16.8m shares at 9.75p exercise price.
- Employees participating in SAYE scheme 211
- Shares under option granted 16,792,846
- Exercise price 9.75 pence
- Percentage of issued share capital 1.20%
- Discount to market price at launch 19.15%
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Debenhams Group (AIM:DEBS) announces the grant of options to employees as part of its Save As You Earn ('SAYE') share scheme for 2025. The scheme was open to all employees, giving them the opportunity to participate in the future growth of Debenhams Group via share option arrangements.
Eligible employees were invited to subscribe for options over ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") with an exercise price of 9.75 pence, representing a 19.15% discount to the closing market price of the Ordinary Shares on 9 October 2025 when the scheme was launched. These options have a contract start date of 1 January 2026 and are exercisable between 1 January 2029 and 30 June 2029.
A total of 211 employees elected to participate and, pursuant to these elections, options were granted over a total of 16,792,846 Ordinary Shares, equating to 1.20% of the current issued share capital. Exercise of these options will be satisfied by the Employee Benefit Trust and there is no dilutive impact on shareholders.
Dan Finley, Chief Executive Officer and Phil Ellis, Chief Financial Officer, are participants in the Company's SAYE scheme and are included in the total figures above. Dan and Phil's individual option grants pursuant to this year's SAYE scheme are in respect of 187,179 Ordinary Shares each. Further details are set out in the below notification, made in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation.
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
| a) | Name | Dan Finley | ||||
| 2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
| a) | Position/status | Group CEO | ||||
| b) | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
| a) | Name | boohoo group plc | ||||
| b) | LEI | 213800SZF3KFCECWY243 | ||||
| a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code | Ordinary shares of 1p ISIN: JE00BG6L7297 | ||||
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Grant of SAYE options | ||||
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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| d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price | N/A | ||||
| e) | Date of the transaction | 1 December 2025 | ||||
| f) | Place of the transaction | Off market | ||||
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
| a) | Name | Phil Ellis | ||||
| 2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
| a) | Position/status | Group CFO | ||||
| b) | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
| a) | Name | boohoo group plc | ||||
| b) | LEI | 213800SZF3KFCECWY243 | ||||
| a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code | Ordinary shares of 1p ISIN: JE00BG6L7297 | ||||
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Grant of SAYE Options | ||||
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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| d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price | N/A | ||||
| e) | Date of the transaction | 1 December 2025 | ||||
| f) | Place of the transaction | Off market |
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