Director/PDMR Shareholding
ME Group International plc announced that Christophe Dantcikian, Group Chief Operating Officer and a PDMR, was granted an option for 190,000 ordinary shares at an exercise price of 148.67 pence per share. This option, granted under the Company's Executive Share Option Scheme (2024), is conditional on continued employment and achieving specific 2028 earnings per share performance criteria, with no consideration paid for the grant. The option will vest on the third anniversary of its grant.
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The Company announces that Mr Christophe Dantcikian, the Group Chief Operating Officer and a PDMR, has been granted a share option over a total of 190,000 ordinary shares of 0.5 pence each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') under the Company's Executive Share Option Scheme (2024) (the 'Scheme').
The option may vest on the third anniversary of its grant subject to Mr Dantcikian's continued employment at the Company and only to the extent certain performance criteria based on 2028 earnings per share performance are achieved. No consideration was paid for the grant of the option. The number of Ordinary Shares under the Option was calculated by reference to the average middle-market quotation of shares (derived from the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the three dealing days immediately before the grant date) of 148.67 pence per Ordinary Share which is also the Option's exercise price per Ordinary Share.
The information below is provided in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation.
| a) | Name | ME Group International plc |
| b) | LEI | 2138006YJ65EKBYYYX41 |
| a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument | Option over Ordinary shares of 0.5p each in the Company |
| Identification code | GB0008481250 | |
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Grant of an option to acquire Ordinary Shares in the Company under the Company's Executive Share Option Scheme 2024, conditional on future performance and continued service. The option will vest three years after the date of grant and to the extent it vests may remain exercisable until the tenth anniversary of the date of grant. |
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) | |
| Price per share | Volume(s) | |
| Nil | 190,000 | |
| d) | Aggregated information | |
| - Aggregated volume | N /A - Single transaction | |
| - Price | Nil | |
| e) | Date of the transaction | 30 April 2026 |
| f) | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue |
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