Substantial shareholdings

The Company has 149,190,956 Ordinary Shares in issue. No Ordinary Shares are held in treasury.

This number represents the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority’s Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with AIM Rule 26, in so far as the Company is aware the percentage of the Company's issued share capital that is not in public hands is 56.7%.

The interests of our top ten shareholders in the issued ordinary share capital of the Company, which have been notified as at 30 November 2023, were as follows:

 

Ordinary shares of 10p each
(000)

Percentage of ordinary shares

Henry Spain Investment Services

35,912

24.1%

HRnetGroup Limited

25,367

17.0%

Gresham House Asset Management

17,014 

11.1%

Schroder Investment Management

14,318

9.4%

Fidelity International

13,715

9.2%

Aberdeen Standard Investments

12,476

8.1%

Hargreaves Lansdown, stockbrokers

6,900

4.5%

Interactive Investor

4,781

3.1%

AJ Bell, stockbrokers

2,787

1.8%

Barclays Smart Investor

1,864

1.2%

 

136,134

89.5%

 As at 27 March 2023, the following directors have beneficial holdings in the Company’s issued share capital:

Albert Ellis

645,291 shares

Daniel Quint

484,914 shares

Catherine Lynch

10,000 shares

Tom Spain

 1,300,000 shares

Albert Ellis and Daniel Quint have interests in 2,389,141 and 1,890,057 respectively for options for ordinary shares, awarded under the Company’s 2021 long term incentive plan in July 2021, May 2022, and February 2023 and SAYE scheme 2022. The other directors have no current interests in share options or Joint Share Ownership Plans.