Transaction in Own Shares

Character Group PLC (The)

21 May 2024

 

Tuesday, 21 May 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 6 February 2024 as extended and increased as announced on 3 April 2024 (the "Programme"), the Company yesterday purchased the following number of its issued ordinary shares of £0.05 each ("Ordinary Shares") from Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited ("Panmure Gordon").

Date of purchase:	20 May 2024
Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased:	15,000
Lowest price paid per share (GB pence):	321
Highest price paid per share (GB pence):	321
Volume weighted average price paid per share (GB pence):	321

The repurchased shares have been cancelled. Following the purchase of these shares, the Company holds 2,100,159 shares in treasury and has 18,773,523 shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company will be 18,773,523. The figure of 18,773,523 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 Gordon as part of the Programme.

Aggregate information: 

Venue	Volume-weighted average price (pence per share)	Aggregate volume
AIMX	321	15,000

Individual transactions:

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (pence per share)	Time of transaction	Venue
15,000	321	08:01:48	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 Gordon (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) Atholl Tweedie / Daphne Zhang, Investment Banking Rupert Dearden / Rauf Munir, 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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