Director/PDMR Shareholding
On October 6, 2025, Essentra PLC announced that CEO Scott Fawcett, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility, partially exercised share options to sell to cover tax liabilities. This follows an earlier announcement regarding the vesting of share options. Fawcett sold 23,068 shares from the Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) and retained 24,954 shares, with the award date being October 4, 2022, and a price of £2.105. Additionally, from the Deferred Annual Share Bonus scheme (DASB), 24,273 shares were sold, and 27,268 were retained, also awarded on October 4, 2022, at £2.105. The LTIP sale included 9,952 shares from a dividend reinvestment scheme, and the DASB sale included 9,280 DRIP shares. Following these transactions, Fawcett's total holding in Essentra shares is 180,792 ordinary shares of 25 pence.
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Further to the announcement earlier today relating to the vesting of share options, Scott Fawcett, Chief Executive Officer, and a Person Discharing Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR") under article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation ("MAR"), has partially exercised share options to sell to cover, as set out below.
Following the transaction, the resultant holding held by Scott Fawcett in Essentra shares is 180,792 ordinary shares of 25 pence.
| 1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |
| a) | Name | Scott Fawcett |
| 2 | Reason for the notification Transfer and sale of shares, pursuant to the satisfaction of the performance conditions, awarded under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan Part B grant of September 2017 ("LTIP"), and the Deferred Annual Share Bonus scheme ("DASB"). | |
| a) | Position/status | Chief Executive Officer |
| b) | Initial notification /Amendment | Initial |
| a) | Name | Essentra plc |
| b) | LEI | 5493007MOZNA03BVNE96 |
| a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument | Ordinary 25p shares |
| Identification code | GB00B0744359 | |
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Transfer and sale of shares |
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) | Volume Award date Price (£) Shares sold to settle tax liability Balance of shares retained LTIP 4 October 2022 2.105 23,068* 24,954 DASB 4 October 2022 2.105 24,273* 27,268 |
| d) | Aggregated information | |
| - Aggregated volume | As above | |
| - Price | ||
| e) | Date of the transaction | 6 October 2025 |
| f) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange (XLON) |
*Essentra operates a dividend reinvestment scheme ("DRIP") and accordingly the following number of shares accumulated during the performance period and were included in the transaction.
| LTIP | 9,952 |
| DASB | 9,280 |
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