The Company has been notified of the following interest in more than 3% of the Company’s issued share capital. The table below shows the position as at 10 March 2023 (being the last practicable date before the publication of the 2022 Annual Report):

Shareholders - 10 March 2023 Number of shares held % of share capital
Odyssean Investment Trust PLC

10,500,000

17.08
Harwood Capital 5,870,826 9.55
Downing LLP 5,653,934 9.19
Close Brothers Asset Management 4,519,551 7.35
Gresham House Asset Management 2,773,089 4.51
Charles Stanley 2,657,571 4.32
Janus Henderson Investors 2,537,190 4.13
Lazard Freres Banque (PB) 2,445,080 3.98
British Growth Fund (BGF) 1,896,724 3.08
Hargreaves Lansdown, stockbrokers 1,628,976 2.65

Directors’ share interests

The table below shows the interests of the Directors in office at the end of the year in the share capital of the Company:

  As at 31 December 2022 number of ordinary shares As at 31 December 2021 number of ordinary shares
Executives    
Bryce Brooks * 299,160 299,160
Russell Cash 48,175 48,175
Non-Executives    
Roger McDowell 750,000 750,000
Nigel Richens ** 73,500 73,500
Jamie Brooke 95,000 -
Ailsa Webb 40,121 -

Number of ordinary shares in issue: 61,492,673

Shares not in public hands: 16.97%

* Bryce Brooks stepped down as CEO on 12/04/2023

** Nigel Richens stepped down as a Non-Executive on 26/04/2023