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RNS Number : 3616U
Hotel Chocolat Group PLC
01 April 2021
 

1 April 2021

HOTEL CHOCOLAT GROUP PLC

 

("Hotel Chocolat", the "Company" or the "Group")

 

PDMR Dealing

 

The Company announces that on 31 March 2021, non-executive director, Greg Hodder, a PDMR of the Company, purchased 8,802 ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 397.6 pence per Ordinary Share. Following the transaction Mr Hodder is interested in 8,802 Ordinary Shares of the Company representing 0.01% of the Company's issued share capital.

 

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail.

 

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

 

 

BRIAN GREGORY HODDER

 

2

 

Reason for the notification

 

a)

 

Position/status

 

 

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

 

b)

 

Initial notification /Amendment

 

 

INITIAL NOTIFICATION

3

 

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

 

a)

 

Name

 

 

HOTEL CHOCOLAT GROUP PLC

b)

 

LEI

 

 

213800B4D3J15PZHVY29

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

HOTEL CHOCOLAT GROUP PLC ORDINARY SHARES OF 0.1P EACH

 

 

Identification code

ISIN: GB00BY23CB04

 

 

b)

 

Nature of the transaction

 

 

ACQUISITION OF ORDINARY SHARES

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Price(s)

Volume(s)

 

 

 

 

£3.976

8,802

 

 

 

 

 

 

d)

 

Aggregated information

 

 

 

- Aggregated volume

n/a single transaction

 

 

- Price

 

 

 

e)

 

Date of the transaction

 

 

31 MARCH 2021

f)

 

Place of the transaction

 

 

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AIM

 

For further information:

 

Hotel Chocolat Group plc                                                  

c/o Citigate           + 44 (0) 20 7638 9571

Angus Thirlwell, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

 

Peter Harris, Co-founder and Development Director

 

Matt Pritchard, Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

Liberum Capital Limited - Nominated Advisor and Broker                         

+ 44 (0) 20 3100 2222

Clayton Bush

 

James Greenwood

 

 

 

Citigate Dewe Rogerson - Financial PR          

+ 44 (0) 20 7638 9571

Angharad Couch

 

Ellen Wilton

 

Kieran Farthing

 

 

Notes to Editors:

Hotel Chocolat is a direct-to-consumer premium chocolate brand, involved in every stage of chocolate from growing to making and distributing. The business was founded in 1993 by Angus Thirlwell and Peter Harris and has traded under the Hotel Chocolat brand since 2003. The Group sells its products online and through a network of locations in the UK and USA, and in Japan via a joint venture. The Group has an organic cacao farm and hotel in Saint Lucia, offering complete cacao immersion through tree-to-bar experiences and wellness treatments. The Group also has the Rabot flagship restaurant and cacao roastery in London's Borough Market. The Group was admitted to trading on AIM in 2016.

 

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