DS Smith Plc ("the Company")
Exercise of Options by Director / other Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities (together "PDMRs")
Date 03 October 2019
| 1
| Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | ||||||||||
| a)
| Name
| COLIN STUART MCINTYRE | |||||||||
| 2
| Reason for the notification | ||||||||||
| a)
| Position/status
| CHIEF EXECUTIVE SUPPLY ENGINE | |||||||||
| b)
| Initial notification /Amendment | INITIAL NOTIFICATION | |||||||||
| 3
| Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | ||||||||||
| a)
| Name
| DS SMITH PLC | |||||||||
| b)
| LEI | 39RSBE4RCI4M15BLWH36 | |||||||||
| 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 10 PENCE EACH
SMDS | |||||||||
| b)
| Nature of the transaction
| Exercise of options over 77,675 ordinary shares which were nil-cost option awards granted on 1 July 2016 under the DS Smith 2008 Performance Share Plan (PSP) and Deferred Share Bonus Plan (DSBP) that vested on 1 July 2019 and the consequential sale of 36,581 shares to pay the tax due on that exercise. | |||||||||
| c)
| Price(s) and volume(s)
|
| |||||||||
| d)
| Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume - Price
|
77,675 £NIL
36,581 £3.539
| |||||||||
| e)
| Date of the transaction | 02 OCTOBER 2019 | |||||||||
| f)
| Place of the transaction | LONDON | |||||||||