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Management Reports • May 1, 2019

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RNS Number : 7990X

Quixant PLC

01 May 2019

Quixant plc

("Quixant" or the "Company")

Grant of Options

Quixant (AIM: QXT), a leading provider of specialised computing platforms and monitors for gaming and slot machine applications, announces that it has granted a total of 35,000 options ("Options") over ordinary shares of 0.1 pence in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to the following person discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMR") (the "Grant"):

Simon Jones, Densitron Managing Director                                                         35,000 options

The Options are exercisable at a price of 258 pence per Ordinary Share and are exercisable from the date of the release of the Company's accounts for the year ending 31 December 2021. The Options are exercisable subject to the growth of the diluted earnings per Ordinary Share (as set out in each of the audited accounts for the years ending 31 December 2019, 2020 and 2021) being equal to or greater than 10 per cent. in each financial year. 

Following the Grant, there are a total of 594,568 Options outstanding, representing approximately 0.90 per cent. of the current issued share capital of the Company.

Further detail is set out in the PDMR disclosure table below. 

For further information please contact: 

Quixant plc	Tel: +44 (0) 1223 892696
Jon Jayal (Chief Executive Officer) Guy Millward (Chief Financial Officer)
Nominated Adviser and Broker:
finnCap Ltd	Tel: +44 (0) 20 7220 0500
Matt Goode / Simon Hicks (Corporate Finance) Alice Lane (ECM)
Financial PR:	Tel: +44 (0) 7909 009173
Alma PR
John Coles / Hilary Buchanan / Susie Hudson

About Quixant

Quixant, founded in 2005, designs and manufactures highly optimised computing solutions and monitors principally for the global gaming industry. The Company is headquartered in Cambridge in the UK where the global sales function is based. North America sales and sales support is run from their subsidiary in Las Vegas. Quixant has its own manufacturing and engineering operation based in Taiwan and software engineering and customer support team based in Italy. All the specialised products software and manufacturing are produced in-house and Quixant owns all its own IP some of which is protected by patents and design rights.

In November 2015 Quixant acquired Densitron Technologies plc. Densitron has a strong heritage in the sale of electronic display solutions to global industrial markets. Through Densitron's experienced sales team, Quixant has a robust platform to build its business into wider industrial markets. In-depth information on the Company's products, markets, activities and history can be found on the corporate website at www.quixant.com.

The information contained in this announcement is inside information for the purposes of article 7 of Regulation 596/2014.

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

1.      

Details of the persons discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

a)

Names:

Simon Jones

2.      

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status:

PDMR / Densitron Managing Director

b)

Initial notification/Amendment:

Initial Notification

3.      

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

a)

Name:

Quixant plc

b)

LEI:

2138003VERSWQP561X71

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 £0.001

GB00B99PCP71

b)

Nature of the transaction:

Grant of options over Ordinary Shares

c)

Price(s) and volume(s):

Price(s)	Volume(s)
258 pence	35,000

d)

Aggregated information:

-      Aggregated volume:

-      Price:

See 4 (c) above

e)

Date of the transaction:

25 April 2019 

f)

Place of the transaction:

Off market transaction

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