Issuance of Ordinary Shares to all NEDs and TVRs

RNS Number : 3293C

boohoo group plc

21 February 2022

 

For Immediate Release	21 February 2022

boohoo group plc

("boohoo" or the "Company")

Issuance of Ordinary Shares to all Non‐Executive Directors and Total Voting Rights

boohoo group plc (AIM: BOO), a leading online fashion group , announces that it has issued new ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("New Ordinary Shares") to its Non‐Executive Directors as part of their compensation package.

A total of 63,761 New Ordinary Shares were issued at an effective price of 94.10 pence under the terms of their letter of appointment which require compensation to be made partly in cash and partly in Ordinary Shares. The New Ordinary Shares represent the share compensation due for the financial year ending 28 February 2022 and are subject to lock in provisions for as long as the recipient remains a director of boohoo. The details of the issuance are set out below:

Director	Value of the share issuance	Number of New Ordinary Shares Issued	Number of Ordinary Shares held following the issuance	Percentage of the enlarged Ordinary Share Capital (%)
Brian Small	£20,000	21,253	98,734	0.0077
Shaun McCabe	£10,000	10,627	110,627	0.0087
Tim Morris	£10,000	10,627	26,297	0.0021
Iain McDonald	£10,000	10,627	731,963	0.0577
Kirsty Britz	£10,000	10,627	10,627	0.0008

Trading in the New Ordinary Shares, which will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing Ordinary Shares, is expected to commence on or around 23 February 2022.

Total Voting Rights

Following admission of the New Ordinary Shares, the total number of ordinary shares and voting rights in the Company will be 1,267,688,084 . The Company does not hold any shares in treasury.

The above figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Enquiries
boohoo group plc
Neil Catto, Chief Financial Officer	Tel: [phone]
Alistair Davies, Investor Relations	Tel: [phone]
Clara Melia, Investor Relations	Tel: [phone]
Mark Mochalski, Investor Relations	Tel: [phone]
Zeus Capital - Nominated adviser and joint broker
Nick Cowles / Andrew Jones	Tel: [phone]
Benjamin Robertson	Tel: [phone]
Jefferies - Joint broker
Philip Noblet / Max Jones	Tel: [phone]
Buchanan - Financial PR adviser	[e-mail]
Richard Oldworth / Kim Looringh-van Beeck / Toto Berger / Sophie Wills	Tel: [phone]

About boohoo group plc

"Leading the fashion eCommerce market"

Founded in Manchester in 2006, boohoo is an inclusive and innovative global brand targeting young, value-orientated customers, pushing boundaries to bring its customers up-to-date and inspirational fashion, 24/7.

In 2017, the group extended its customer offering through the acquisitions of the vibrant fashion brand PrettyLittleThing and free-thinking brand Nasty Gal. In March 2019, the group acquired the MissPap brand, in August 2019 the Karen Millen and Coast brands and in June 2020 the Warehouse and Oasis brands, all complementary to the group's scalable, multi-brand platform. In January 2021, the group acquired the intellectual property assets of Debenhams, with the goal of transforming a leading UK fashion and beauty retailer into a digital department store and marketplace through a new capital-light and low-risk operating model. In February 2021, the group acquired the intellectual property assets of UK brands Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton. As at 31 August 2021, the boohoo group had 19 million active customers across all its brands around the world

 

END

 

 

IOEFLFVEFRILFIF