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Warpaint London PLC

25 May 2021

25 May 2021

Warpaint London PLC

("Warpaint", the "Company" or the "Group")

Grant of Options and Director/PDMR Shareholding

Warpaint London plc (AIM: W7L), the specialist supplier of colour cosmetics and owner of the W7 and Technic brands, announces the grant of options ("Options") on 24 May 2021 over a total of 400,000 Ordinary Shares of 25p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to two PDMRs under the Warpaint London PLC share option schemes.

The options are granted pursuant to the Company's annual review of share options to Neil Rodol, the Company's Chief Financial Officer and Matthew Goldstein, the Managing Director of the Group's subsidiary Retra Holdings Limited, both of whom are PDMRs, as part of their annual remuneration and incentivisation packages.

 
               Position              Number of       Total number            Options and grant date 
                                   options granted    of options 
                                                       held post 
                                                         grant 
                                                                                                29 June 2017 
                                                                    105,262 (EMI)                21 September 
                                                                     306,996 (LTIP)              2018 
               Chief Financial                                       24,590 (CSOP)               24 May 2021 
 Neil Rodol     Officer               250,000          662,258       225,410 (non-qualifying)    24 May 2021 
              -----------------  -----------------  -------------  --------------------------  -------------- 
               Managing 
 Matthew        Director 
  Goldstein     Retra                 150,000          210,000      60,000 (CSOP)               20 May 2020 
                                                                     150,000 (non-qualifying)    24 May 2021 
 ------------------------------  -----------------  -------------  --------------------------  -------------- 
 

The Options are exercisable at a price of 122 pence per Ordinary Share, being the closing price the day prior to grant, from 24 May 2024 to 24 May 2031. The exercise of Options is not subject to the satisfaction of any performance criteria.

Following these grants the total number of options in issue over Ordinary Shares is 4,890,382 representing 6.37% of the Company's issued share capital of 76,752,355 Ordinary Shares.

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                 Neil Rodol 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 2    Reason for the notification 
     ------------------------------------------------ 
 a)   Position/status      Chief Financial Officer 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 b)   Initial              Initial notification 
       notification 
       /Amendment 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance 
       market participant, auction platform, 
       auctioneer or auction monitor 
     ------------------------------------------------ 
 a)   Name                 Warpaint London PLC 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 b)   LEI                  213800EBJ2CN6KIDCO78 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 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          Ordinary shares of 25p 
       of the financial 
       instrument,          W7 ISIN: GB00BYMF3676 
       type of 
       instrument 
       Identification 
       code 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 b)   Nature of            Grant of Option 
       the transaction 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 c)   Price(s)               Price(s)   Volume(s) 
       and volume(s)          122p       250,000 
                                        ---------- 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 d)   Aggregated 
       information          N/A - single transaction 
       - Aggregated 
       volume 
       - Price 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 e)   Date of              24 May 2021 
       the transaction 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 f)   Place of             Outside a Trading Venue 
       the transaction 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 
 
 1    Details of the person discharging managerial 
       responsibilities / person closely associated 
 a)   Name                 Matthew Goldstein 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 2    Reason for the notification 
     ------------------------------------------------ 
 a)   Position/status      Managing Director Retra 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 b)   Initial              Initial notification 
       notification 
       /Amendment 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance 
       market participant, auction platform, 
       auctioneer or auction monitor 
     ------------------------------------------------ 
 a)   Name                 Warpaint London PLC 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 b)   LEI                  213800EBJ2CN6KIDCO78 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 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          Ordinary shares of 25p 
       of the financial 
       instrument,          W7 ISIN: GB00BYMF3676 
       type of 
       instrument 
       Identification 
       code 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 b)   Nature of            Grant of Option 
       the transaction 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 c)   Price(s)               Price(s)   Volume(s) 
       and volume(s)          122p       150,000 
                                        ---------- 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 d)   Aggregated 
       information          N/A - single transaction 
       - Aggregated 
       volume 
       - Price 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 e)   Date of              24 May 2021 
       the transaction 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 f)   Place of             Outside a Trading Venue 
       the transaction 
     -------------------  --------------------------- 
 

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014.

Enquiries:

 
 Warpaint London                                 c/o IFC 
  Keith Sadler - Chairman of the Remuneration 
  Committee 
 Sam Bazini - Chief Executive Officer 
  Eoin Macleod - Managing Director 
  Neil Rodol - Chief Financial Officer 
  N+1 Singer (Nominated Adviser & Joint 
   Broker)                                        020 7496 3000 
 Shaun Dobson, Jen Boorer, Alex Bond 
  - Corporate Finance 
  Tom Salvesen - Corporate Broking 
 Shore Capital (Joint Broker)                    020 7408 4090 
 Patrick Castle, Daniel Bush - Corporate 
  Advisory 
  Fiona Conroy - Corporate Broking 
  IFC Advisory (Financial PR & IR)                020 3934 6630 
 Tim Metcalfe 
  Graham Herring 
  Florence Chandler 
 

Warpaint London plc

Warpaint is made up of two divisions.

The largest division sells branded cosmetics under the lead brand names of W7 and Technic. W7 is sold in the UK primarily to retailers and internationally to local distributors or retail chains. The Technic brand is sold in the UK and continental Europe with a significant focus on the gifting market, principally for high street retailers and supermarkets. In addition, this division supplies own brand white label cosmetics produced for several major high street retailers. The Group also sells cosmetics using our other own brand names of Man'stuff, Body Collection, Vintage, Very Vegan, and Chit Chat.

The other division trades in close-out and excess inventory of branded cosmetics and fragrances from around the world.

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