Director/PDMR Shareholding
ME Group International PLC announced that on July 29, 2026, Vladimir Crasneanscki, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, was granted a phantom option for 300,000 notional ordinary shares under the Company's Executive Share Option Scheme (2024). This option, with a notional exercise price of 148.67 pence per share, is conditional on continued employment and achieving specific 2028 earnings per share performance criteria, with potential vesting on the third anniversary of the grant. The exercise gains are settled in cash, and the option does not confer any interest in or right to acquire actual ordinary shares.
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The Company announces that on 29 July 2026 a phantom option in relation to notional ordinary shares of 0.5 pence each in the Company was granted under the Company's Executive Share Option Scheme (2024) (the 'Scheme') to the following person discharging managerial responsibilities:
| Participant | Position | Details of phantom option |
| Vladimir Crasneanscki | Deputy Chief Executive Officer | Phantom option over 300,000 notional shares |
The phantom option may vest on the third anniversary of its grant subject to 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 phantom option. The number of notional ordinary shares under the option was calculated by reference to 148.67 pence per notional share which is also the phantom option's notional exercise price per notional share. The price of 148.67 pence is the same price as used in respect of the share options under Scheme granted to other Company employees on 30 April 2026 which also had the same performance criteria attached. The exercise gains can only be settled with cash. The phantom option provides no interest in or right to acquire ordinary shares in the Company.
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 | Phantom option over notional ordinary shares of 0.5p each in the Company |
| Identification code | GB0008481250 | |
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Grant of a phantom option over notional ordinary shares in the Company under the Company's Executive Share Option Scheme 2024, conditional on future performance and continued service. The phantom option will vest three years after the date of grant and to the extent they vest may remain exercisable until the tenth anniversary of the date of grant. A notional exercise price of 148.67 pence per notional share. The exercise gains can only be settled with cash. The phantom option provides no interest in or right to acquire ordinary shares in the Company. |
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) | |
| Price per share | Volume(s) | |
| Nil | 300,000 notional shares | |
| d) | Aggregated information | |
| - Aggregated volume | N/A - Single transaction | |
| - Price | Nil | |
| e) | Date of the transaction | 29 July 2026 |
| f) | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue |
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