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Warpaint London PLC

24 November 2023

24 November 2023

Warpaint London PLC

("Warpaint", the "Company" or the "Group")

Grant of Options

Directors/PDMR Shareholding

Warpaint London plc (AIM: W7L), the specialist supplier of colour cosmetics and owner of the W7 and Technic brands, announces that, on 24 November 2023, it granted 808,500 options ("Options") over Ordinary Shares of 25p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to certain Group employees under the Warpaint London PLC share option schemes. The Options have been granted pursuant to the Company's annual review of remuneration and incentivisation packages.

The Options are exercisable at a price of 325 pence per Ordinary Share, being the closing mid-price on 23 November 2023. The Options are excercisable from 24 November 2026 until 24 November 2033. The Options are not subject to the satisfaction of any performance criteria.

Included within the 808,500 Options granted, the following grants were made to PDMRs:

 
               Position             Number of   Total number             S ummary of options h eld 
                                     Options     of options                    and grant date 
                                     granted      held post 
                                                    grant 
                                                                                           21 September 
                                                                                            2018 
                                                               306,996 (LTIP)               24 May 2021 
                                                                24,590 (CSOP)               24 May 2021 
                                                                225,410 (non-qualifying) 
               Chief Financial                                  9,230 CSOP                  24 November 2023 
 Neil Rodol     Officer              120,000      676,996       110,770 (non-qualifying)    24 November 2023 
              -------------------  ----------  -------------  --------------------------  ------------------ 
               G eneral Counsel 
 S ally         & Company 
  Craig         Secretary            10,000        30,000      10,000 (EMI)                29 June 2017 
                                                                10,000 (CSOP)               20 May 2020 
                                                                10,000 (CSOP)               24 November 2023 
 --------------------------------  ----------  -------------  --------------------------  ------------------ 
 Matthew       Managing Director 
  Goldstein     Retra                75,000       225,000      150,000 (non-qualifying)    24 May 2021 
                                                                18,461 CSOP 
                                                                56,539 (non-qualifying)     24 November 2023 
                                                                                            24 November 2023 
 --------------------------------  ----------  -------------  --------------------------  ------------------ 
 

Following the grant of the 808,500 Options the total number of options in issue over Ordinary Shares is 5,372,699 representing approximately 6.95% of the Company's current issued share capital.

The information in the below notification is disclosed in accordance with Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.

 
 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
       / person closely associated 
 a)   Name                          Neil Rodol 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 2    Reason for the notification 
     ------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Position/status               Chief Financial Officer 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 b)   Initial notification          Initial notification 
       /Amendment 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
       auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
     ------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Name                          Warpaint London PLC 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 b)   LEI                           213800EBJ2CN6KIDCO78 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 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                   Ordinary shares of 25p each 
       of the financial 
       instrument, 
       type of instrument            GB00BYMF3676 
       Identification 
       code 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 b)   Nature of                     Grant of Option 
       the transaction 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 c)   Price(s)                        Price(s)   Volume(s) 
       and volume(s)                   325 p      120,000 
                                                 ---------- 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 d)   Aggregated                    N /A Single Transaction 
       information 
       - Aggregated 
       volume 
       - Price 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 e)   Date of the                   24 November 2023 
       transaction 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 f)   Place of                      Outside a Trading Venue 
       the transaction 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 
 
 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
       / person closely associated 
 a)   Name                      Sally Craig 
     ------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 2    Reason for the notification 
     ------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Position/status           General Counsel & Company Secretary 
     ------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 b)   Initial notification      Initial notification 
       /Amendment 
     ------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
       auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
     ------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Name                      Warpaint London PLC 
     ------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 b)   LEI                       213800EBJ2CN6KIDCO78 
     ------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 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               Ordinary shares of 25p each 
       of the financial 
       instrument, 
       type of instrument        GB00BYMF3676 
       Identification 
       code 
     ------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 b)   Nature of                 Grant of Option 
       the transaction 
     ------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 c)   Price(s)                    Price(s)   Volume(s) 
       and volume(s)               325 p      10,000 
                                             ---------- 
     ------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 d)   Aggregated                N /A Single Transaction 
       information 
       - Aggregated 
       volume 
       - Price 
     ------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 e)   Date of the               24 November 2023 
       transaction 
     ------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 f)   Place of                  Outside a Trading Venue 
       the transaction 
     ------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 
 
 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
       / person closely associated 
 a)   Name                          Matthew Goldstein 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 2    Reason for the notification 
     ------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Position/status               Managing Director Retra 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 b)   Initial notification          Initial notification 
       /Amendment 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
       auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
     ------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Name                          Warpaint London PLC 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 b)   LEI                           213800EBJ2CN6KIDCO78 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 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                   Ordinary shares of 25p each 
       of the financial 
       instrument, 
       type of instrument            GB00BYMF3676 
       Identification 
       code 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 b)   Nature of                     Grant of Option 
       the transaction 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 c)   Price(s)                        Price(s)   Volume(s) 
       and volume(s)                   325 p      75,000 
                                                 ---------- 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 d)   Aggregated                    N /A Single Transaction 
       information 
       - Aggregated 
       volume 
       - Price 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 e)   Date of the                   24 November 2023 
       transaction 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 f)   Place of                      Outside a Trading Venue 
       the transaction 
     ----------------------------  ------------------------------------- 
 

Enquiries:

 
 Warpaint London                                      c/o IFC 
  Sam Bazini - Chief Executive Officer 
  Eoin Macleod - Managing Director 
  Neil Rodol - Chief Financial Officer 
 Shore Capital (Nominated Adviser & Broker) 
  Patrick Castle, Daniel Bush - Corporate Advisory 
  Fiona Conroy - Corporate Broking                    020 7408 4090 
 IFC Advisory (Financial PR & IR) 
  Tim Metcalfe, Graham Herring, Florence Chandler     020 3934 6630 
 

Warpaint London plc

Warpaint sells branded cosmetics under the lead brand names of W7 and Technic. W7 is sold in the UK primarily to retailers and internationally to local distributors or retail chains. The Technic brand is sold in the UK and continental Europe with a significant focus on the gifting market, principally for high street retailers and supermarkets. In addition, Warpaint supplies own brand white label cosmetics produced for several major high street retailers. The Group also sells cosmetics using its other brand names of Man'stuff, Body Collection and Chit Chat.

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