Transaction in Own Shares & Total Voting Rights

Character Group PLC (The)

03 December 2024

 

Tuesday, 3 December 2024

The Character Group plc

("Character", the "Company" or the "Group")

Transaction in Own Shares

Character announces that, in accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 29 October 2024 (the "Programme"), the Company purchased a number of its issued ordinary shares of £0.05 each ("Ordinary Shares") from Panmure Liberum Limited ("Panmure Liberum") in accordance with the following particulars:

Date of purchase:	2 December 2024
Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased:	2,800
Lowest price paid per share (GB pence):	280
Highest price paid per share (GB pence):	280
Volume weighted average price paid per share (GB pence):	280

The repurchased shares have been cancelled. Following the purchase of these shares, the Company holds 1,983,059 shares in treasury and has 18,731,291 shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company will be 18,731,291. The figure of 18,731,291 may be used by shareholders 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 Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the UK version of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014, which is part of UK law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, the table below contains detailed information of the individual trades made by Panmure Liberum as part of the Programme.

Aggregate information: 

Venue	Volume-weighted average price (pence per share)	Aggregate volume
AIMX	280	2,800

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Venue
2,800	280	08:38:07	AIMX

Enquiries to: The Character Group plc Jon Diver, Joint Managing Director Kiran Shah, Joint Managing Director & Group Finance Director Office:  [phone] Mobile: [phone] (JD) Mobile: [phone] (KS)
Panmure Liberum (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) Atholl Tweedie, Investment Banking Rupert Dearden, Corporate Broking Tel:  [phone]
Allenby Capital Limited (Joint Broker) Nick Athanas, Corporate Finance Amrit Nahal / Tony Quirke, Sales & Corporate Broking Tel:  [phone]
TooleyStreet Communications Limited (Investor and media relations) Fiona Tooley Tel:  [phone] Email: [e-mail]

 

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