The following amendment has been made to the
'Share purchase for Long-Term Incentive Plan, exercise of options
under LTIP, PDMR shareholdings and dividend declaration'
announcement released on 19 November 2024 at 07:00 a.m. under RNS
No 7006M. The final dividend amount under the 'Dividend Declaration
- timing update' header has been corrected to 9.2p from 8.0p. All
other details remain unchanged. The full amended text is shown
below.
Cerillion plc
("Cerillion" or the
"Company")
Share purchase for Long-Term Incentive
Plan, exercise of options under LTIP, PDMR shareholdings and
dividend declaration
Cerillion, the billing, charging and customer
relationship management software solutions provider, announces that
on 18 November, the Company purchased into treasury 32,500 shares
of 0.5 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at an average
price of 1910 pence per Ordinary Share.
The 32,500 Ordinary Shares were immediately
issued from treasury to certain members of senior management (set
out below) who have exercised their rights pursuant to the
Company's Long-Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP"), details of which were announced
on 19 September 2017. These options, that are exercisable at the
nominal value of the Ordinary Shares, were subject to the
achievement of targets for compound annual growth in the share
price of the Company over the original three-year vesting
period.
PDMR
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Role
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LTIPs exercised
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Alistair Carwardine
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SVP Asia Pacific
|
5,000
|
Arif Bhavnagarwalla
|
Head of Operations, India
|
5,000
|
Mark Nicholls
|
Chief Operating Officer
|
7,500
|
Amit McCann
|
Account Development Director
|
5,000
|
Andrew Smith
|
Marketing Director
|
5,000
|
Richard Doughty
|
Business Development Director
|
5,000
|
The information below is set out in accordance
with the requirements of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014
(which forms part of UK domestic law pursuant to the European Union
(Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended), provides further details of the
transaction EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail on
the sales.
Treasury
Shares
Following the transfer, the Company holds no
shares in Treasury.
Total voting
rights
Following the exercise of LTIPs, the total
number of Ordinary Shares in issue, for the purposes of the
Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules,
remains unchanged at 29,535,614 with each share carrying the right
to one vote.
The above figure may be used by shareholders in
the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they
will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or
a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company
under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Dividend Declaration - timing update
Further to the Company's final
results for the year ended 30 September 2024, as announced on 18
November 2024, the Company provides an update on the proposed
dividend timetable. The final dividend of 9.2p* per share, which is
subject to shareholder approval at the Company's Annual General
Meeting to be held on 13 February 2025, will be payable on 20
February 2025 to those shareholders on the Company's register as at
the close of business on the record date of 17 January. The
ex-dividend date is 16 January 2025.
Enquiries:
Cerillion plc
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c/o KTZ Communications
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Louis Hall, CEO
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T: 020 3178 6378
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Andrew Dickson, CFO
|
|
Panmure Liberum Limited (Nomad and Joint
Broker)
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T: 020 3100 2000
|
Bidhi Bhoma, Edward Mansfield,
Freddie Wooding
|
|
Singer Capital Markets (Joint Broker)
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T: 020 7496 3000
|
Rick Thompson, James
Fischer
|
|
KTZ
Communications
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T: 020 3178 6378
|
Katie Tzouliadis, Robert
Morton
|
|
1
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Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
/ person closely associated
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a)
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Name
|
Alistair Carwardine
Arif Bhavnagarwalla
Mark Nicholls
Amit McCann
Andrew Smith
Richard Doughty
|
2
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Reason for the notification
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a)
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Position/status
|
SVP Asia Pacific
Head of Operations, India
Chief Operating Officer
Account Development Director
Marketing Director
Business Development Director
|
b)
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Initial notification
/Amendment
|
Initial Notification
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3
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
|
a)
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Name
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Cerillion PLC
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b)
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LEI
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213800ISIZMUC3P46850
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4
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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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b)
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Nature of the transaction
|
Exercise of options into Ordinary
Shares under the LTIP
|
c)
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Price(s) and volume(s)
|
Price(s)
|
Volume(s)
|
0.5 pence
|
5,000
|
0.5 pence
|
5,000
|
0.5 pence
|
7,500
|
0.5 pence
|
5,000
|
0.5 pence
|
5,000
|
0.5 pence
|
5,000
|
|
d)
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Aggregated information
- Aggregated
volume
- Price
|
32,500 Ordinary Shares
0.5 pence
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e)
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Date of the
transaction
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18 November 2024
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f)
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Place of the transaction
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Outside a trading venue
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