Employee Share Options
January 14 2009 - 12:27PM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 6628L
Lonrho PLC
14 January 2009
14th January 2009
LONRHO PLC
("Lonrho" or the "Company")
AMENDMENT OF CERTAIN EXISTING STAFF OPTIONS AND GRANT OF NEW SHARE OPTIONS
The Board of Lonrho Plc ("the Company") has, as a result of the impact of the
global economic downturn on the Company's share price, been reviewing the
effectiveness of the Company's share option plan which is used to incentivise
and retain employees, consultants and directors. Having considered the current
terms of the existing and previously announced share options the Board, on the
13th January 2009, determined that the current share options will not achieve
their objective of incentivising and retaining staff. At the Board's request,
the Remuneration Committee has reviewed the situation and recommended, and the
Board has approved that the exercise price relating to 20,915,000 existing
options to current employees, consultants and directors representing 2.74% of
the current issued share capital of the Company be amended to 6.5 pence per
share. All the other terms and conditions of these existing share options remain
the same as previously announced.
Following the new appointment to the Board of non-executive director Ambassador
Frances Cook and Finance Director David Armstrong the Board has, on the
recommendation of its remuneration committee, on the 13th January 2009 granted
new options over, in aggregate, 10,000,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the
share capital of the Company at an exercise price of 6.5pence to the new Board
members as well as existing directors, senior employees and consultants
allocated as to David Lenigas (Executive Chairman) 2,500,000; Geoffrey White
(Chief Executive Officer) 2,000,000; Emma De Borchgrave (Executive Director)
1,500,000; David Armstrong (Finance Director) 1,000,000; Ambassador Frances Cook
(Non-Executive Director) 500,000; Donald Strang (Non-Executive Director)
500,000; Jean Ellis (Non- Executive Director) 500,000 and senior management and
consultants 2,000,000. The grant of the new options was made under the Company's
Unapproved Share Option Plan other than those to the non-executive directors and
a consultant (whose options were granted under stand-alone option agreements on
similar terms to those under the Unapproved Company Share Option Plan), each
with an exercise period of five years.
Following the amendment to the exercise price of the existing share options and
the grant of the new options the directors of the Company now have the following
options over shares in the capital of the Company at an exercise price of 6.5
pence: David Lenigas (Executive Chairman) 11,365,000; Geoffrey White (Chief
Executive Officer) 5,565,000; Emma De Borchgrave (Executive Director) 4,565,000;
David Armstrong (Finance Director) 1,000,000; Ambassador Frances Cook
(Non-Executive Director) 500,000; Donald Strang (Non-Executive Director)
1,200,000; Jean Ellis (Non- Executive Director) 850,000. The total number of
options held by the board over shares in the capital of the Company is therefore
in aggregate 25,045,000 options representing 3.28% of the current issued share
capital of the Company
The total number of options granted over shares in the capital of the Company is
now 37,505,000 options representing 4.91% of the total issued share capital of
the Company.
LONRHO ENQUIRIES
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| Geoffrey White, Chief | +44 |
| Executive Officer | (0)7717 |
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| Emma de Borchgrave, | +44 |
| Executive Director | (0)7867 |
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| Charles Vivian | +44 |
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| James MacFarlane | +44 |
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| Collins Stewart Europe : | (0) |
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| Hugh Field | 672831 |
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