Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 4640S
Ascential PLC
02 October 2017
 

 

 

 

2 October 2017

 

 

Ascential plc

 

Notification of transactions of persons discharging managerial responsibility

 

Ascential plc ("the Company" / LSE: ASCL.L) has today received notification of the following transactions by its Executive Directors, Duncan Painter and Mandy Gradden. 

After payment of the Ascential plc interim dividend on 29 September 2017, the trustees of the Ascential plc Employee Share Incentive Plan ("SIP") reinvested the dividend in further shares under the terms of the SIP on behalf of Mandy Gradden and Duncan Painter.  

Duncan Painter has purchased 2 shares and has a resultant holding of 3,551,029 shares, 0.89% of ordinary shares in issue.  Mandy Gradden has purchased 2 shares and has a resultant holding of 771,780 ordinary shares, 0.19% of ordinary shares in issue.  

Name and contact details for enquiries:

Louise Meads

Company Secretary

020 7516 5042

 

1

 

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

 

a)

 

Names

 

 

Duncan Painter

Mandy Gradden

 

2

 

Reason for the notification

 

a)

 

Position/status

 

 

Director

b)

 

Initial notification /Amendment

 

Initial notification

3

 

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

 

a)

 

Name

 

 

Ascential plc

b)

 

LEI

 

 

213800VDXQDA7KD2IQ21

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

Ordinary shares of 1p

 



Identification code

BYM8GJ0



b)

 

Nature of the transaction

 

 

Duncan Painter - purchase of ordinary shares

Mandy Gradden - purchase of ordinary shares

c)

 

Price(s) and volume(s)







Duncan Painter:





Price(s)

Volume(s)




347.7p

2




 

Mandy  Gradden:





Price(s)

Volume(s)




347.7p

2







d)

 

Aggregated information




- Aggregated volume

Not applicable - single transaction



- Price




e)

 

Date of the transaction

 

 

29 September 2017

f)

 

Place of the transaction

 

 

London

 

 


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