Itm Power PlcLSE: ITM

Director's Share Purchase & G

RNS Number : 4568G
ITM Power PLC
01 February 2010
 

1 February 2010

ITM Power Plc

("ITM" or "the Company")

Director's Purchase and Grant of Options

Dr Graham Cooley, Chief Executive Officer of ITM, the energy storage and clean fuel company, acquired, on 1 February 2010, 104,156 Ordinary Shares in ITM at a price of 19.65p per share.  Following this purchase, Dr. Cooley has an interest in 104,156 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.1% of the Company's issued share capital in addition to the options set out below.

Separately, the Board of ITM is pleased to announce the grant of options to executive directors as follows:

Option Grant 1 February 2010

EMI Options

Unapproved Options

No.

Exercise Price (pence)

Vesting

Exercise

No.

Exercise

Price

(pence)

Vesting

Exercise

Cooley, Graham

           640,000

18.75

1st/2nd/3rd anniversary

up to 10 years

from grant

360,000

18.75

1st/2nd/3rd anniversary

up to 10 years from grant

Bourne, Simon

           200,000

18.75

1st/2nd/3rd anniversary

up to 10 years

from grant

 -

-

-

-

Existing Options

EMI Options

Unapproved Options

No.

Exercise Price (pence)

Vesting

Exercise

No.

Exercise

Price

(pence)

Vesting

Exercise

Cooley, Graham

 -

-

-

-

 200,000

18.25

1st/2nd/3rd anniversary 

up to 10 years

from grant 

Bourne, Simon

           334,250

5.7

1st/2nd/3rd anniversary 

up to 10 years

from grant 

-

-

-

-

TOTAL

EMI Options

Unapproved Options

TOTAL

No.

No.

No.

Cooley, Graham

 640,000

560,000

1,200,000

Bourne, Simon

534,250

-  

534,250

Dr. Simon Bourne currently has an interest in 23,451 ordinary shares, in addition to the options set out above, representing 0.02% of the issued share capital.

For further information please visit www.itm-power.com or contact:

ITM Power Plc

Graham Cooley, CEO

0114 244 5111

Panmure Gordon & Co.

Andrew Godber

020 7459 3600

Tavistock Communications

Simon Hudson / Andrew Dunn

020 7920 3150


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