Agronomics Limited
18 March 2025
Agronomics Limited
("Agronomics" or the "Company")
Director
Dealings
Exercise of Shellbay
options
Agronomics (LSE: ANIC), a leading
listed company in the field of clean food, announces
that the Company has been notified
by Shellbay Investments Limited ("Shellbay")
that an advisory consultant to Shellbay has elected to exercise the
nil paid options granted by Shellbay in relation to certain shares
of the Company held by Shellbay. The option holder has exercised
options over 2,289,549 shares, and the transfer of these shares to
the option holder will occur with immediate
effect.
Shellbay is a company indirectly
wholly owned by Jim Mellon, the Executive Chair of the Company.
Following the exercise of options
and resulting transfer of the Company shares to the consultant,
Shellbay holds, in aggregate, 24,097 Ordinary Shares of the
Company, of which 24,097 shares remain subject to the 2024
Options.
The total issued share capital
of 1,009,417,295 ordinary shares with a nominal value of £0.000001
remains unchanged.
Following the exercise of Options,
the interests of the Directors in Ordinary Shares is as set out
below:
|
No. of Ordinary Shares
|
% of
current issued Ordinary Shares
|
Jim Mellon*
|
158,117,002
|
15.66%
|
Richard Reed**
|
6,354,412
|
0.63%
|
David Giampaolo
|
2,434,783
|
0.24%
|
Denham Eke
|
1,551,824
|
0.15%
|
*Jim Mellon is currently interested in a total of
158,117,002 Ordinary Shares. 152,710,944 are held by Galloway
Limited and 24,097 are held by Shellbay, companies which are
both indirectly wholly owned by Jim Mellon, and 5,381,961
Ordinary Shares are held directly by Jim Mellon. Denham
Eke is a director of Galloway
Limited and Shellbay Investments
Limited.
** Richard Reed is currently interested in 6,354,412
Ordinary Shares held by Reepa Limited. Reepa
Limited is wholly owned by Richard
Reed.
About Agronomics
Agronomics is a
leading London-listed company focussing on investment
opportunities within the field of clean food. The Company has established a portfolio
of over 20 companies in this rapidly advancing sector. It seeks to
invest in companies owning technologies with defensible
intellectual property that offer new ways of producing food and
materials with a focus on products historically derived from
animals. These technologies are driving a major disruption in
agriculture, offering solutions to improve sustainability, as well
as addressing human health, animal welfare and environmental
damage. This disruption will decouple supply chains from the
environment and animals and improve food security for the world's
expanding population. A full list of Agronomics' portfolio
companies is available at https://agronomics.im/.
This announcement contains inside
information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse
Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014, as it forms part
of UK Domestic Law by virtue
of the European
Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. Upon the
publication of this announcement, this inside information is now
considered to be in the public domain.
For further information
please contact:
Agronomics Limited
|
Beaumont
Cornish Limited
|
Canaccord
Genuity Limited
|
Cavendish Capital Markets Limited
|
Peterhouse Capital Limited
|
33Seconds
Limited
|
The
Company
|
Nomad
|
Joint
Broker
|
Joint
Broker
|
Joint
Broker
|
Public
Relations
|
Jim
Mellon
Denham
Eke
|
Roland
Cornish
James
Biddle
|
Andrew
Potts
Harry
Pardoe
Alex
Aylen (Head of Equities)
|
Giles
Balleny
Michael
Johnson
|
Lucy
Williams
Charles
Goodfellow
|
Jack
Ferris
Calum
Warren-Piper
|
Nominated Adviser
Beaumont Cornish Limited ("Beaumont Cornish") is the Company's
Nominated Adviser and is authorised and regulated by the FCA.
Beaumont Cornish's responsibilities as the Company's Nominated
Adviser, including a responsibility to advise and guide the Company
on its responsibilities under the AIM Rules for Companies and AIM
Rules for Nominated Advisers, are owed solely to the London Stock
Exchange. Beaumont Cornish is not acting for and will not be
responsible to any other persons for providing protections afforded
to customers of Beaumont Cornish nor for advising them in relation
to the proposed arrangements described in this announcement or any
matter referred to in it.
END