Company Announcements

FirstGroup Plc - Director/PDMR Shareholding

FirstGroup plc

11 July 2025

 

 

 

Director/PDMR Shareholding

 

Grant of options under the FirstGroup Save as You Earn (“SAYE”) Share Plan

 

FirstGroup plc (the “Company”) announces that today it has granted a total of 6,105,523 options to 2,522 employees under its SAYE share plan.   The SAYE share plan is an all employee scheme and the savings contracts will commence on 1 September 2025 and subject to completing the savings plan the options will be normally be exercisable for six months from 1 September 2028.

 

The following options over ordinary shares were granted to the following Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities who are all dirctors of the company:

 


Director                            Number of options

Ant Green (Group Employee Director) 824



 

This notification is made in accordance with Article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation.

 

 

 

LEI: 549300DEJZCPWA4HKM93

 

Enquiries :

David Blizzard, Company Secretary

Marianna Bowes, Head of Investor Relations

+44 (0)20 7291 0505

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

 _______________________________________________________
|1 |Details of the person discharging managerial        |
|  |responsibilities / person closely associated        |
|__|____________________________________________________|
|a)|Name                           |Ant Green           |
|__|_______________________________|____________________|
|2 |Reason for the notification                         |
|__|____________________________________________________|
|a)|Position/status                |Director            |
|__|_______________________________|____________________|
|b)|Initial notification /Amendment|Initial             |
|__|_______________________________|____________________|
|  |Details of the issuer, emission allowance market    |
|3 |participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction|
|  |monitor                                             |
|__|____________________________________________________|
|a)|Name                           |FirstGroup plc      |
|__|_______________________________|____________________|
|b)|LEI                            |549300DEJZCPWA4HKM93|
|__|_______________________________|____________________|


 _________________________________________________________________________
|  |Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each    |
|4 |type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date;   |
|  |and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted            |
|__|______________________________________________________________________|
|  |Description of the financial  |Ordinary shares of 5p each             |
|a)|instrument, type of instrument|                                       |
|  |                              |GB0003452173                           |
|  |Identification code           |                                       |
|__|______________________________|_______________________________________|
|  |                              |(1) Grant of options at £1.78 under the|
|b)|Nature of the transaction     |SAYE Share plan                        |
|  |                              |                                       |
|  |                              |                                       |
|__|______________________________|_______________________________________|
|  |                              |                                       |
|  |                              |Price(s) Volume(s)                     |
|c)|Price(s) and volume(s)        |                                       |
|  |                              |Nil      824                           |
|  |                              |                                       |
|__|______________________________|_______________________________________|
|  |Aggregated Information        |                                       |
|  |                              |                                       |
|d)|- Aggregated volume           |824                                    |
|  |                              |                                       |
|  |- Price                       |Nil                                    |
|__|______________________________|_______________________________________|
|e)|Date of the transaction       |11 July 2025                           |
|__|______________________________|_______________________________________|
|f)|Place of the transaction      |Grant of share options occurred outside|
|  |                              |a trading venue                        |
|__|______________________________|_______________________________________|
|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                        |
|_________________________________________________________________________|