27 February 2025
PPHE Hotel Group Limited
("PPHE Hotel Group", "PPHE, or the "Group")
Grant and exercise of EVP Annual Bonus Plan awards and exercise of performance share award nil-cost options
PPHE Hotel Group, the international hospitality real estate group which develops, owns and operates hotels and resorts, today announces that members of its senior management team: Greg Hegarty, Daniel Kos and Inbar Zilberman (each being a person discharging managerial responsibilities as defined in the EU Market Abuse Regulation, or a "PDMR"), have been granted nil-cost options over a number of ordinary shares in the Company as set out in the table below:
| Name |
Position |
Number of ordinary shares in the Company |
| Greg Hegarty |
C o Chief Executive Officer |
12,000 |
| Daniel Kos |
Chief Financial Officer |
12,000 |
| Inbar Zilberman |
Chief Corporate & Legal Officer |
12,000 |
Daniel Kos and Inbar Zilberman have exercised their option awards immediately. The awards were granted under the PPHE Executive Incentive Plan 2020 in settlement of annual bonus entitlements under the Company's EVP Annual Bonus Plan.
Daniel Kos and Inbar Zilberman have also exercised nil-cost options granted under the PPHE Executive Incentive Plan 2020 over 22,000 ordinary shares each.
The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provide additional detail.
| 1 |
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
|||||
| a) |
Name |
Greg Hegarty |
||||
| 2 |
Reason for the notification |
|||||
| a) |
Position/status |
Co Chief Executive Officer |
||||
| b) |
Initial notification/Amendment |
Initial notification |
||||
| 3 |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
|||||
| a) |
Name |
PPHE Hotel Group Limited |
||||
| b) |
LEI |
2138003H1BZGR6KM5823 |
||||
| 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 no par value GG00B1Z5FH87/PPH |
||||
| b) |
Nature of the transaction |
Grant of share option |
||||
| c) |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
|
||||
| d) |
Aggregated information |
See above |
||||
| e) |
Date of the transaction |
2025-02-27 |
||||
| f) |
Place of the transaction |
London |
||||
| 1 |
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
|||||||
| a) |
Name |
Daniel Kos |
||||||
| 2 |
Reason for the notification |
|||||||
| a) |
Position/status |
Chief Financial Officer |
||||||
| b) |
Initial notification/Amendment |
Initial notification |
||||||
| 3 |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
|||||||
| a) |
Name |
PPHE Hotel Group Limited |
||||||
| b) |
LEI |
2138003H1BZGR6KM5823 |
||||||
| 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 no par value GG00B1Z5FH87/PPH |
||||||
| b) |
Nature of the transaction |
Grant and exercise of share option Exercise of share option |
||||||
| c) |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
|
||||||
| d) |
Aggregated information |
See above |
||||||
| e) |
Date of the transaction |
2025-02-27 |
||||||
| f) |
Place of the transaction |
London |
||||||
| 1 |
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated |
|||||||
| a) |
Name |
Inbar Zilberman |
||||||
| 2 |
Reason for the notification |
|||||||
| a) |
Position/status |
Chief Corporate and Legal Officer |
||||||
| b) |
Initial notification/Amendment |
Initial notification |
||||||
| 3 |
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
|||||||
| a) |
Name |
PPHE Hotel Group Limited |
||||||
| b) |
LEI |
2138003H1BZGR6KM5823 |
||||||
| 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 no par value GG00B1Z5FH87/PPH |
||||||
| b) |
Nature of the transaction |
Grant and exercise of share option Exercise of share option |
||||||
| c) |
Price(s) and volume(s) |
|
||||||
| d) |
Aggregated information |
See above |
||||||
| e) |
Date of the transaction |
2025-02-27 |
||||||
| f) |
Place of the transaction |
London |
||||||
Enquiries:
| PPHE Hotel Group Limited Daniel Kos, Chief Financial Officer & Executive Director |
Tel: +31 (0)20 717 8600 |
| h2Radnor Iain Daly / Joshua Cryer |
Tel: +44 (0) 203 897 183 0 |
| Hudson Sandler Wendy Baker / India Laidlaw |
Tel: +44 (0)20 7796 4133 |
Notes to Editors
PPHE Hotel Group is an international hospitality real estate company, with a £2.2 billion portfolio, valued as at December 2024 by Savills and Zagreb nekretnine Ltd (ZANE), of primarily prime freehold and long leasehold assets in Europe.
Through its subsidiaries, jointly controlled entities and associates it owns, co-owns, develops, leases, operates and franchises 1 hospitality real estate. Its portfolio includes full-service upscale, upper upscale and lifestyle hotels in major gateway cities and regional centres, as well as hotel, resort and campsite properties in select resort destinations. The Group's strategy is to grow its portfolio of core upper upscale city centre hotels, leisure and outdoor hospitality and hospitality management platform.
PPHE Hotel Group benefits from having an exclusive and perpetual licence from the Radisson Hotel Group, one of the world's largest hotel groups, to develop and operate Park Plaza® branded hotels and resorts in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In addition, PPHE Hotel Group wholly owns, and operates under, the art'otel® brand and its Croatian subsidiary owns, and operates under, the Arena Hotels & Apartments® and Arena Campsites® brands.
PPHE Hotel Group is a Guernsey registered company with shares listed on the London Stock Exchange. PPHE Hotel Group also holds a controlling ownership interest in Arena Hospitality Group ('AHG'), whose shares are listed on the Prime market of the Zagreb Stock Exchange.
Company websites: www.pphe.com | www.arenahospitalitygroup.com
For reservations:
www.parkplaza.com | www.artotel.com | www.radissonhotels.com | www.arenahotels.com | www.arenacampsites.com