THE PEBBLE GROUP PLC — Director's Dealing 2023

Dec 22, 2023

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RNS Number : 8169X

Pebble Group PLC (The)

22 December 2023

22 December 2023

THE PEBBLE GROUP PLC

("The Pebble Group", or the "Group")

AIM: PEBB, OTCQX: PEBBF

Non-Executive Director and PDMR Share Dealings and

Vesting of Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) Awards

The Pebble Group, a leading provider of digital commerce, products and related services to the global promotional products industry, announces that David Moss, Independent Non-Executive Director, purchased 100,000 Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each in the company ("Ordinary Shares") on 21 December 2023.

Following the purchase, David Moss has a beneficial interest in 100,000 Ordinary Shares representing 0.06% of the issued share capital of the Group.

The purchase of Ordinary Shares was from participants in The Pebble Group plc Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP"). Under the LTIP, on 21 December 2023, there was an exercise of 107,976 share options ("Options") and the vesting of 195,582 Conditional Share Awards.

Included in the participants of the Conditional Share Awards vesting was a PDMR who, concurrent with the vesting, also sold 67,043 Ordinary Shares.

Participant	Position	Ordinary Shares from Conditional Share Award	Ordinary Shares sold	Resultant holding in Ordinary Shares	% of issued share capital of the Group
Karl Whiteside	Group Managing Director, Brand Addition	67,043	67,043	853,820	0.51%

The exercise of nil cost Options and the vesting of Conditional Share Awards under the LTIP, including by one Group PDMR, has been satisfied through the allocation of existing Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each held by The Pebble Group Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT"). As such, no new Ordinary Shares have been issued in connection with the Option exercises or the Conditional Share Awards.

Following settlement of these transactions, the EBT will hold a total of 412,637 Ordinary Shares representing 0.25 per cent of the Group's total voting rights.

The notifications below, provided in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation, provide further details.

Enquiries:

The Pebble Group Chris Lee, Chief Executive Officer Claire Thomson, Chief Financial Officer +44 (0) 750 012 4121	Temple Bar Advisory (Financial PR) Alex Child-Villiers / Sam Livingstone +44 (0) 207 183 1190 pebble@templebaradvisory.com
Grant Thornton UK LLP (Nominated Adviser) Samantha Harrison / Harrison Clarke / Ciara Donnelly +44 (0) 207 184 4384	Berenberg (Corporate Broker) Ben Wright / Marie Moy / Mollie D'Arcy Rice +44 (0) 203 207 7800

About The Pebble Group plc-- www.thepebblegroup.com

The Pebble Group is a provider of digital commerce, products and related services to the global promotional products industry, comprising two differentiated businesses, Facilisgroup and Brand Addition, focused on specific areas of the promotional products market. For further information, please visit www.thepebblegroup.com.

The information set out below is provided in accordance with the requirements of Regulation 19(3) of the EU Market Abuse Regulation No 596/2014: 

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

(a)

Name

Karl Whiteside

2

Reason for the notification

(a)

Position/status

Group Managing Director, Brand Addition

(b)

Initial notification/Amendment

Initial notification

3

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

(a)

Name

The Pebble Group plc

(b)

LEI

213800LZUQAYBHDEQY04

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 1 pence each

ISIN GB00BK71XP16

PEBB.L

(b)

Nature of the transaction

Vesting of Conditional share awards pursuant to The Pebble Group plc Long Term Incentive Plan

(c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

	Price(s)	Volume(s)
1	NIL	67,043

(d)

Aggregated information

-         Aggregated volume

-         Price

N/A

(e)

Date of the transaction

21 December 2023

(f)

Place of the transaction

XLON

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

(a)

Name

Karl Whiteside

2

Reason for the notification

(a)

Position/status

Group Managing Director, Brand Addition

(b)

Initial notification/Amendment

Initial notification

3

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

(a)

Name

The Pebble Group plc

(b)

LEI

213800LZUQAYBHDEQY04

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 1 pence each

ISIN GB00BK71XP16

PEBB.L

(b)

Nature of the transaction

Sale of Ordinary Shares

(c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

	Price(s)	Volume(s)
1	52.1p	67,043

(d)

Aggregated information

-         Aggregated volume

-         Price

N/A

(e)

Date of the transaction

21 December 2023

(f)

Place of the transaction

XLON

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

(a)

Name

David Moss

2

Reason for the notification

(a)

Position/status

Independent Non Executive Director

(b)

Initial notification/Amendment

Initial notification

3

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

(a)

Name

The Pebble Group plc

(b)

LEI

213800LZUQAYBHDEQY04

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 1 pence each

ISIN GB00BK71XP16

PEBB.L

(b)

Nature of the transaction

Purchase of Ordinary Shares from participants in The Pebble Group plc Long Term Incentive Plan

(c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

	Price(s)	Volume(s)
1	52.1p	100,000

(d)

Aggregated information

-         Aggregated volume

-         Price

N/A

(e)

Date of the transaction

21 December 2023

(f)

Place of the transaction

AIMX

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