Exercise of Options (3026B)
February 16 2011 - 2:00AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 3026B
Lonrho PLC
16 February 2011
16 February 2011
LONRHO PLC
("Lonrho" or "the Company")
Exercise of Options
Issue of Equity
Directors' Dealings
Lonrho Plc (AIM:LONR) today announces that a total of 6,250,000
new ordinary shares will be issued following the exercise of
6,250,000 options pursuant to the Lonrho Plc Unapproved Company
Share Option Plan ("Unapproved Plan").
The new ordinary shares will rank, pari passu, with all existing
ordinary shares. Application has been made for these shares to be
admitted to trading on AIM and admission is expected to take place
on 22 February 2011.
As a result of the continued expansion of the Lonrho Group of
companies, coupled with the new investment and financing
opportunities regularly presented to the Board for consideration in
line with the Company's strategy, the Company has been in a close
period for the purposes of Rule 21 of the AIM Rules for Companies
for some time. The result of this led to an extension to the
exercise period of those options held by Directors and applicable
employees which are due to expire in the first half of Lonrho's
financial year ending in 2011 to 31 March 2011, as detailed in the
press release dated 4 October 2010. As the Company is now out of a
close period, the Directors and applicable employees have been
granted permission to exercise their options before they
expire.
Shares have been issued pursuant to the Unapproved Plan to the
following Directors:
Director Number of new Reason for exercise
ordinary shares
------------------- ----------------- --------------------
David Lenigas 3,500,000 Options due to
expire
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Emma Priestley 1,250,000 Options due to
expire
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Ambassador Frances 500,000 Options converted
Cook to shares
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In addition, 1,000,000 new ordinary shares will be issued
pursuant to the Unapproved Plan to Jim Hughes, Company Secretary.
Mr Hughes's options were also due to expire. The Board was today
informed that Ambassador Cook today sold 183,748 new ordinary
shares at 17.75p per share to cover the cost of the exercise.
The resulting shareholding of the above mentioned Directors is
as follows:
Resultant Percentage
Total holding holding of the
as at today's new enlarged and
Director date issued share capital
-------------------- --------------- ----------------------
David Lenigas 3,750,000 0.32%
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Emma Priestley 1,290,712 0.11%
-------------------- --------------- ----------------------
Ambassador Frances
Cook 316,252 0.03%
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The total number of ordinary shares in issue following the
exercise of these options will be 1,180,364,449.
For further information: Enquiries
Lonrho Plc -
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David Lenigas, Executive Chairman +44 (0)20 7016 5105
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Geoffrey White, Chief Executive Officer +44 (0)20 7016 5105
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David Armstrong, Finance Director +44 (0)20 7016 5105
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Emma Priestley, Executive Director +44 (0)20 7016 5105
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Pelham Bell Pottinger
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Charles Vivian +44 (0) 20 7861 3126
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+44 (0) 7977 297903
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James MacFarlane +44 (0) 20 7861 3864
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+44 (0) 7841 672831
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Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nomad)
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Rosalind Hill Abrahams
Roland Cornish +44 (0) 20 7628 3396
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This information is provided by RNS
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