Purchase of Shares by Employee Benefit Trust

RNS Number : 4554B
boohoo group plc
03 October 2022
 



 

For Immediate Release

3 October 2022

boohoo group plc

("boohoo" or the "Company" or the "Group")

Purchase of Shares by Employee Benefit Trust

boohoo (AIM: BOO), a leading online fashion retailer, announces that the Trustee of the Group's Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT") has purchased 6,247,723 ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("Shares") at an average net price of  37.05 pence per share.

 

These purchases are intended to satisfy future awards of shares under boohoo group plc's employee share plans and will be held by the Trustee in the Group's EBT.

 

Following this transaction, a total of 13,164,160 Ordinary Shares are held by the EBT, representing approximately 1.04 per cent of the Company's total voting rights.

 

 

Enquiries


boohoo group plc

 


Shaun McCabe, Chief Financial Officer

Tel: +44 (0)161 233 2050

Alistair Davies, Investor Relations

Tel: +44 (0)161 233 2050

Clara Melia, Investor Relations

Tel: +44 (0)20 3289 5520

Mark Mochalski, Investor Relations

Tel: +44 (0)20 3239 6289







Zeus Capital - Nominated adviser and joint broker


Andrew Jones / James Edis

Tel: +44 (0)161 831 1512

Benjamin Robertson

Tel: +44 (0)20 3829 5000







Jefferies - Joint broker


Philip Noblet / Max Jones

Tel: +44 (0)20 7029 8000







Buchanan - Financial PR adviser

boohoo@buchanan.uk.com

Richard Oldworth / Kim Looringh-van Beeck / Toto Berger / Verity Parker

Tel: +44 (0)20 7466 5000

 

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 2022, the boohoo group had 19 million active customers across all its brands around the world.

 


 

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