RNS Number : 2007F
Gladstone PLC
07 January 2010
Gladstone plc
("Gladstone" or the "Company")
Exercise of Options
Gladstone announces that 15,011 Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each have been issued as a result of the exercise of options held by an employee under the Gladstone EMI share option scheme.
The total number of ordinary shares of the Company in issue amounts to 52,839,294 of which 4,525,000 shares are held in Treasury. Thus the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights is 48,314,294 ordinary shares.
Application for the admission of the 15,011 new ordinary shares for trading on AIM has been submitted and dealings are expected to commence on 8 January 2010.
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For further information:
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Gladstone plc
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Dr. Said Ziai, Chairman and Chief Executive
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Tel: +44 (0) 1491 201010
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www.gladstoneplc.com
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Nominated Adviser to Gladstone:
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Grant Thornton Corporate Finance
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Gerry Beaney/ David Hignell
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Tel: +44 (0) 207 383 5100
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Broker to Gladstone:
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Fairfax I.S. PLC
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Simon Bennett / Laura Littley
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7598 5368
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Media enquiries:
Notes to Editors
Gladstone plc's innovative software products and services, currently targeted at the global health and leisure and education markets, are used daily by thousands of front line staff, managers, end users and students.
Gladstone is a market leader in the provision of member relationship management solutions for diverse health and leisure organisations including trusts, leisure centres, and major private leisure chains and is established as the de facto standard for UK local authorities. The Company enables all its clients in both public and private sectors, including organisations such as Sportscotland and Trinity College Dublin, to utilise central database facilities for central and cross-site on-line bookings, CRM and membership management, centralisation of administration, marketing and reporting.
The Company also provides a wide range of integrated systems and software-based solutions for the rapidly expanding Education Facilities Management Systems (EFMS) market across the entire spectrum of educational establishments and is a key supplier to the UK Government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative.
Gladstone is focused on extending its solutions capabilities, which enable its clients to maximise resource usage, retain customers and improve operational performance, thereby making cost efficiencies, into new vertical and geographic markets aligned with its growth strategy.
The Company's current solutions include the comprehensive Gladstone Plus2TM product suite which incorporates advanced functionality including web-based remote booking, advanced analysis and the use of kiosks, as well as Gladstone OnRecordTM which serves the education industry with e-registration, biometric and smart card recognition, cashless payment systems, extensive information portals, libraries usage and access control.
Based in Oxfordshire, the Company has sales offices in Glasgow, Dublin (Ireland) and Sydney (Australia), with distributors in Dubai and Europe in addition to development facilities in Sonderborg (Denmark) and Karachi (Pakistan).
For further information, visit www.gladstoneplc.com
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