FRANCHISE BRANDS PLC — Director's Dealing 2021

Oct 12, 2021

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RNS Number : 7168O

Franchise Brands PLC

12 October 2021

FRANCHISE BRANDS PLC

("Franchise Brands", the "Group" or the "Company")

Director/PDMR Notification 

Franchise Brands plc (AIM: FRAN), a multi-brand franchise business, announces that Chris Dent, Chief Financial Officer, and Julia Choudhury, Corporate Development Director, have purchased ordinary shares of 0.5 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") as set out below.

	No. of Ordinary Shares purchased	Resulting interest in Ordinary Shares	% of issued share capital
Chris Dent	300	61,602	0.06
Julia Choudhury	2,030	1,546,701	1.45

The notification below, which has been made in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail.

Enquiries:

Franchise Brands plc	+ 44 (0) 1625 813231
Stephen Hemsley, Executive Chairman
Chris Dent, Chief Financial Officer
Julia Choudhury, Corporate Development Director
Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)	+44 (0) 20 3328 5656
Jeremy Porter / Liz Kirchner (Corporate Finance) Amrit Nahal (Sales)
Dowgate Capital Limited (Joint Broker)	+44 (0) 20 3903 7715
James Serjeant / Colin Climie / Nicholas Chambers
MHP Communications (Financial PR)	+44 (0) 20 3128 8100
Katie Hunt	+44 (0) 7884 494112
	franchisebrands@mhpc.com

About Franchise Brands plc

Franchise Brands is focused on building market-leading businesses in selected customer segments using primarily a franchise model. The Group currently has a combined network of over 425 franchisees across five principal franchise brands. Our focus is on established brands which can benefit from our shared support services, specialist sector expertise, management experience and group resources.

The Group is organised into a B2B division comprised of Metro Rod, Metro Plumb, and Willow Pumps, and a B2C division that incorporates ChipsAway, Ovenclean and Barking Mad. This divisional organisation of our brands is designed to provide a greater focus and structure to support the strategic development of our B2B and B2C brands.

Each of our brands are leaders in their respective markets and each brand has a long trading history. The combined trading history of all the Group's brands is over 135 years.

Franchise Brands plc employs some 280 people across three principal locations in Macclesfield, Kidderminster and Aylesford.

For further information, visit www.franchisebrands.co.uk.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them. 

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Chris Dent	Chief Financial Officer
Julia Choudhury	Corporate Development Director

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

See 1 a) above

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Franchise Brands plc

b)

LEI

213800CFRX6CJ8LCKN37

4

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 0.5p each in Franchise Brands plc

Identification code (ISIN) for Franchise Brands plc ordinary shares: GB00BD6P7Y24

b)

Nature of the transaction

Purchase of ordinary shares

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

	price	volume
Chris Dent	132.99p	300
Julia Choudhury	132.99p	2,030

d)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

n/a

e)

Date of the transaction

11 October 2021

f)

Place of the transaction

London Stock Exchange - AIM

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