Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 9399B

ASOS PLC

15 June 2021

 

15 June 2021

ASOS Plc

Director/PDMR Shareholding

ASOS Plc (the "Company") makes the following announcement regarding the sale of ordinary shares of 3.5 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Share(s)") carried out by Nick Beighton, CEO. Following this transaction, Nick Beighton holds 154,101 Shares in the Company.

This announcement is made in accordance with UK Market Abuse Regulations (Regulation (EU) 596/2014, as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018).

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Nick Beighton
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	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	ASOS Plc
b)	Legal Entity Identifier	213800H8DBB8JSKDW630
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 3.5 pence each GB0030927254
b)	Nature of the transaction	Sale of Shares
c)	Currency	GBP
d)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)	Volume(s)
		£51.0012	29,558
e)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total	N/A single transaction
f)	Date of the transaction	14 June 2021
g)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM

For further information:

ASOS plc  Tel: [phone]

Nick Beighton, Chief Executive Officer

Mat Dunn, Chief Financial Officer

Taryn Rosekilly, Investor Relations

Website:  www.asosplc.com/investors

Headland Consultancy  Tel: [phone]

Susanna Voyle/Stephen Malthouse/  Fay Rajaratnam  

JPMorgan Cazenove (Nominated Advisor)  Tel: [phone]

Bill Hutchings/ Mika Niskanen

Numis Securities  Tel: [phone]

Alex Ham/Jonathan Wilcox/Tom Jacob 

Background note

ASOS is an online retailer for fashion-loving 20-somethings around the world, with a purpose to give its customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be. Through its market-leading app and mobile/desktop web experience, available in ten languages and in over 200 markets, ASOS customers can shop a curated edit of 85,000 products, sourced from 850 of the best global and local third-party brands and its mix of fashion-led in-house labels - ASOS Design, ASOS Edition, ASOS 4505, Collusion, Reclaimed Vintage, Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT. ASOS aims to give all of its customers a truly frictionless experience, with an ever-greater number of different payment methods and hundreds of local deliveries and returns options, including Next-Day Delivery and Same-Day Delivery, dispatched from state-of-the-art fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Germany.

ASOS' websites attracted 248.6m visits during February 2021 (February 2020 ¹ : 214.1m) and as at 28 February 2021 had 24.9m active customers ²  (29 February 2020: 22.3m), of which 7.8m were located in the UK and 17.1m were located in international territories (29 February 2020: 6.8m in the UK and 15.5m internationally).

¹ Restated visits, previously reported number 215.4m; visits for February 2020 include an extra day, on a like for like basis February 2020 visits would have been 206.7m,  ² Defined as having shopped in the last 12 months as at 28/29 February

 

END

 

 

DSHFIFETRVIELIL