Vianet Group PLC Grant of Options (4813Q)
February 20 2023 - 8:38AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMVNET
RNS Number : 4813Q
Vianet Group PLC
20 February 2023
20 February 2023
Vianet Group plc
("Vianet", "the Company" or "the Group")
Grant of Share Options
Vianet Group plc (AIM: VNET), an international cloud based
provider of business intelligence and management software to the
hospitality, unattended retail vending and remote asset management
sectors, announces that on 15 February 2023 the Remuneration
Committee approved the grant of a total of 450,000 share options
(the "Options") to James Dickson, Mark Foster, Stella Panu and
David Coplin, Directors of the Company, over ordinary shares of 10
pence each in the share capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares")
under the Company's EMI Scheme. In addition to long term incentive
the award to James Dickson was also in recognition of forgone
pension entitlement for FY22 and FY23 and to ensure that the
Directors are appropriately remunerated.
The Options have an exercise price of 75.00 pence per ordinary
share, being the closing midmarket price per ordinary share on 16
February 2023. Each of these Options vest after three years from
the date of issue and are exercisable for a period of seven years
from vesting and subject to the satisfaction of certain share price
performance conditions.
The breakdown of the grant of Options to each of the Directors
is as follows:
Director Option Scheme Number Option exercise Expiry date
of options price per share
17 February
James Dickson EMI Scheme 250,000 75.00p 2033
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17 February
Mark Foster EMI Scheme 100,000 75.00p 2033
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17 February
Stella Panu EMI Scheme 50,000 75.00p 2033
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17 February
Dave Coplin EMI Scheme 50,000 75.00p 2033
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1 Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
/ person closely associated
a) Name James Dickson
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2 Reason for the notification
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a) Position/status PDMR
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b) Initial notification Initial
/Amendment
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3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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a) Name Vianet Group PLC
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b) LEI 2138007KAM1HB8E7E134
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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
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Transaction
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a) Description of Ordinary Shares of 10 pence each
the financial
instrument, type ISIN: GB00B13YVN56
of instrument
Identification
code
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b) Nature of the Grant of options under EMI Scheme
transaction
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c) Price(s) and volume(s) Price(s) Volume(s)
75.00 pence 250,000
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d) Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume N/A - single transaction
- Price
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e) Date of the transaction 17 February 2023
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f) Place of the transaction London Stock Exchange, AIM
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1 Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
/ person closely associated
a) Name Mark Foster
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2 Reason for the notification
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a) Position/status PDMR
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
b) Initial notification Initial
/Amendment
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
-------------------------------------------------------------------
a) Name Vianet Group PLC
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b) LEI 2138007KAM1HB8E7E134
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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
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Transaction
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
a) Description of Ordinary Shares of 10 pence each
the financial
instrument, type ISIN: GB00B13YVN56
of instrument
Identification
code
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
b) Nature of the Grant of options under EMI Scheme
transaction
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
c) Price(s) and volume(s) Price(s) Volume(s)
75.00 pence 100,000
----------
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
d) Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume N/A - single transaction
- Price
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
e) Date of the transaction 17 February 2023
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f) Place of the transaction London Stock Exchange, AIM
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1 Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
/ person closely associated
a) Name Stella Panu
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
2 Reason for the notification
-------------------------------------------------------------------
a) Position/status PDMR
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
b) Initial notification Initial
/Amendment
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
-------------------------------------------------------------------
a) Name Vianet Group PLC
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
b) LEI 2138007KAM1HB8E7E134
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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
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Transaction
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
a) Description of Ordinary Shares of 10 pence each
the financial
instrument, type ISIN: GB00B13YVN56
of instrument
Identification
code
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
b) Nature of the Grant of options under EMI Scheme
transaction
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
c) Price(s) and volume(s) Price(s) Volume(s)
75.00 pence 50,000
----------
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
d) Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume N/A - single transaction
- Price
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
e) Date of the transaction 17 February 2023
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
f) Place of the transaction London Stock Exchange, AIM
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
1 Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
/ person closely associated
a) Name Dave Coplin
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
2 Reason for the notification
-------------------------------------------------------------------
a) Position/status PDMR
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
b) Initial notification Initial
/Amendment
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
-------------------------------------------------------------------
a) Name Vianet Group PLC
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
b) LEI 2138007KAM1HB8E7E134
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
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
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Transaction
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
a) Description of Ordinary Shares of 10 pence each
the financial
instrument, type ISIN: GB00B13YVN56
of instrument
Identification
code
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
b) Nature of the Grant of options under EMI Scheme
transaction
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
c) Price(s) and volume(s) Price(s) Volume(s)
75.00 pence 50,000
----------
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
d) Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume N/A - single transaction
- Price
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
e) Date of the transaction 17 February 2023
---------------------------- -------------------------------------
f) Place of the transaction London Stock Exchange, AIM
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Enquiries:
Vianet Group plc
James Dickson, Chairman & CEO Tel: +44 (0) 1642 358
Mark Foster, CFO 800
www.vianetplc.com
Cenkos Securities plc
Stephen Keys / Camilla Hume Tel: +44 (0) 20 7397
8900
www.cenkos.com
Investor enquiries:
Dale Bellis Tel: +44 (0) 20 7397
8900
About Vianet
Vianet Group is a leading provider of actionable management
information and business insight created through combining data
from our Internet of Things ('IOT') solutions and external
information sources.
Since its Admission to AIM in 2006, the Group has grown from its
core beer monitoring business both organically and through
strategic acquisitions to widen its offering and develop new
businesses, especially in vending telemetry and contactless payment
solutions particularly for the premium coffee sector.
Servicing over 300 customers across the world and rendering live
data to our IOT platform from over 250,000 connected machines
daily, Vianet is one of the largest business to business (b2b)
connected solutions providers in Europe with established long-term
relationships with blue chip customers and growing recurring
revenues which are over 85% of our total revenues.
In our Smart Machines division, we connect a single data
gathering device with its own on-board communication capability to
a customer's asset or system. The device then sends data back via
our IOT platform to cloud based servers. The technology was
originally developed for automated retailing machines; however, the
flexibility and functionality of the device means the technology
can be applied to any machine which has the capability to output
data. The device is also used to connect our contactless payment
solution and communicate payment terms to our cloud-based payment
services providers where that application is also required.
The Smart Zones division is where we connect multiple data
gathering devices into one or more systems or assets with the data
from those devices being communicated back to our IOT platform and
cloud-based servers via a single 4G communications hub. The
technology was originally developed for flow monitoring devices,
temperature sensors, and asset management in drinks retailing but
any data gathering device with a digital output could be connected
to the communications hub where required such as gaming machines,
utilities management and POS.
For further information, please visit www.vianetplc.com
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