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Share Incentive Plan

08 November 2022

1. Establishment of the Omega Diagnostics Group PLC Share Incentive Plan

Omega (AIM: ODX), the specialist medical diagnostics company focused on promoting a personalised and functional approach to health and nutrition, announces the establishment and launch of a new HMRC tax-advantaged share scheme, namely the Omega Diagnostics Group PLC Share Incentive Plan (the “SIP” or the “Plan”).

The SIP, which was entered into in late September, has been adopted to support the principles of wider share ownership amongst all the Company’s employees.  It allows eligible individuals (including Omega’s executive directors) to be invited to purchase ordinary shares of 4 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") via the SIP trustee using salary deductions (which, in aggregate, cannot exceed £1,800 per employee over any one tax year).  The Ordinary Shares acquired in this manner are referred to as “Partnership Shares” and, for each Partnership Share purchased, participants are awarded one further free Ordinary Share, known as a “Matching Share.”

Matching Shares must normally be held in the SIP for a minimum holding period of 3 years and will usually be forfeited if, during that period, the participant in question ceases employment or withdraws their corresponding Partnership Shares from the Plan.

2. Initial purchase of Partnership Shares and award of Matching Shares

On 7 November 2022, the Company received notification from Link Market Services Trustees Limited, the trustee of the SIP, that, on 7 November 2022, it purchased an aggregate of 130,908 Partnership Shares in the market at a price of 2.75p per share on behalf of those Directors set out in the table below.  At the same time, these individuals were also awarded (for no consideration) their corresponding Matching Shares.

 

Director Board Position Number of Partnership
Shares acquired under the SIP on 7 November
2022
Number of
Matching Shares acquired under the SIP on 7
November 2022
Total beneficial holding of Ordinary Shares following these acquisitions
    Number of Ordinary Shares Approximate % of Company’s issued share capital
Jag Grewal CEO 65,454 65,454 1,025,834 0.43%
Chris Lea CFO 65,454 65,454 1,030,908 0.43%

The salary deductions used by each of the above-noted Directors to acquire their Partnership Shares amounted to £1,800, being the maximum level of contribution that can be made to the SIP by an individual in any single tax year. 

 

Contacts:  

Omega Diagnostics Group PLC  www.omegadx.com
Jag Grewal Chief Executive Officervia Walbrook PR
Chris Lea, Chief Financial Officer  
  
finnCap LtdTel: 020 7220 0500
Geoff Nash/Edward Whiley/George Dollemore (Corporate Finance)  
Alice Lane/ Charlotte Sutcliffe (ECM)  
  
Walbrook PR Limited Tel: 020 7933 8780 or [email protected]
Paul McManus Mob: 07980 541 893
Sam Allen Mob: 07502 558 258
Lianne Applegarth Mob: 07584 391 303

About Omega Diagnostics Group PLC  
Omega (AIM: ODX) is a specialist medical diagnostics company focused on promoting a personalised and functional approach to health and nutrition. www.omegadx.com

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

 

1  
 
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated  
 
a) 
 
Name 
Jag Grewal
2  
 
Reason for the notification  
a) 
 

Position/status 

Chief Executive Officer 
b) 
 
Initial notification
/Amendment 
Initial Notification
3   Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor  
a) 
 
Name 
 
Omega Diagnostics Group PLC
b) 
 
LEI 
 
2138007U9P4BTZTYIR92
4   Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transacti conducted on; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
 
a) 
 
Description of the
financial instrument, type
of instrument 
 
Identification code 
 
Ordinary Shares of 4 pence each ("Ordinary Shares")  
 
 
ISIN: GB00B1VCP282
b) 
 
Nature of the
transaction 
 
Ordinary Shares purchased under the "Partnership Share" element of the Company's all-employee Share Incentive Plan.
c) 
 
Price(s) and
volume(s) 
 
 
 
Price(s) Volume(s)
2.75p 65,454
d) 
 
Aggregated information 
 
 
-Aggregated volume 
 
 
- Price 
 
 
Not applicable
e) 
 
Date of the transaction 
 
2022-11-7 
f)   Place of the transaction 
 
London Stock Exchange
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 of the financial instrument, type of instrument 
 
Identification code 
 
Ordinary Shares of 4 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") 
 
 
 
ISIN: GB00B1VCP282
b) 
 
Nature of the
transaction 
 
Ordinary Shares awarded under the "Matching Share" element of the Company's all-employee Share Incentive Plan.
c) 
 
Price(s) and
volume(s) 
 
 
 
Price(s) Volume(s)
Nil 65,454
d) 
 
Aggregated information 
 
 
-Aggregated volume 
 
 
- Price 
 
 
Not applicable
e) 
 
Date of the transaction 
 
2022-11-7 
f)   Place of the transaction 
 
London Stock Exchange
1  
 
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated  
 
a)  Name  Chris Lea
  
 
 
2  
 
Reason for the notification  
a) 
 
Position/status 
 
 
Chief Financial Officer
b) 
 
Initial notification
/Amendment 
 
Initial Notification
3   Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor  
a) 
 
Name 
Omega Diagnostics Group PLC
b) 
 
LEI 
2138007U9P4BTZTYIR92
4   Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transacti
conducted 
 
  on; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been
 
a) 
 
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument 
 
Identification code 
 
Ordinary Shares of 4 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") 
 
 
 
ISIN: GB00B1VCP282
b) 
 
Nature of the
transaction 
 
Ordinary Shares purchased under the "Partnership Share" element of the Company's all-employee Share Incentive Plan.
c) 
 
Price(s) and
volume(s) 
 
 
 
Price(s) Volume(s)
2.75p 65,454
d) 
 
Aggregated information 
 
 
-Aggregated volume 
 
 
- Price 
 
 
Not applicable
e) 
 
Date of the transaction 
 
2022-11-7 
f)   Place of the transaction 
 
London Stock Exchange
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 of the financial instrument, type of instrument 

Identification code 
Ordinary Shares of 4 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") 
 
  ISIN: GB00B1VCP282
b) 
 
Nature of the
transaction 
 
Ordinary Shares awarded under the "Matching Share" element of the Company's all-employee Share Incentive Plan.
c) 
 
Price(s) and
volume(s) 
 
 
 
Price(s) Volume(s)
Nil 65,454
d) 
 
Aggregated information 
 
 
-Aggregated volume 
 
 
- Price 
 
 
Not applicable
e) 
 
Date of the transaction 
 
2022-11-7 
f)   Place of the transaction 
 
London Stock Exchange


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