28 November 2014
dotdigital Group Plc
("dotdigital" or the "Company")
FIRST TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES AS PART OF THE
SHARE BUYBACK SCHEME
AND
TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS
dotdigital Group Plc (AIM:DOTD), the leading provider of intuitive Software as a Service ("SaaS") and managed services to digital marketing professionals announces that, following the announcement on 11 November 2014, announcing the Company's intention to commence a share buyback scheme of up to 3.0m Shares (the "Share Buyback"), the Company has completed the first of tranche of its Share Buyback scheme.
On 27 November 2014, the Company purchased 105,000 of its ordinary shares of 0.5 pence each ("Shares") at a price of 28.5 pence per Share. The purchased Shares will be held in treasury. This purchase represents 0.04 per cent of the current issued share capital of the Company. It is intended that the Shares that have been purchased through the Share Buyback scheme and held in treasury will be used to satisfy the Company's employee share option schemes
Due to the general illiquidity in trading of its ordinary shares, the Company may, in purchasing ordinary shares pursuant to the Share Buyback, make purchases in excess of the limit of 25 per cent of average daily volume in the 20 trading days preceding the date of the purchase which is set out in the Code of Market Conduct and, in such circumstances, the Company would be deviating from the safe harbour set out in MAR 1 Annex 1 to the Financial Conduct Authority Code of Market Conduct.
Following the above transaction, the Company holds 105,000 Shares in treasury, and has 284,197,065 Shares in issue (excluding the Shares held in treasury). This figure of 284,197,065 represents the total voting rights in the Company and 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 Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
For further enquiries please contact:
dotdigital Group Plc Peter Simmonds, Chief Executive Milan Patel, Chief Financial Officer
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Tel: 020 3770 1501 Tel: 020 3770 1502 |
Financial PR and Investor Relations Lisa Baderoon lisa.baderoon@dotdigitalgroup.co.uk
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Tel: 07721 413 496 |
N+1 Singer, NOMAD & Broker Shaun Dobson, Head of Corporate Finance Alex Wright, Corporate Finance
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Tel: 020 7496 3000 |
finnCap, Joint Broker Stuart Andrews, Corporate Finance
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Tel: 020 7220 0500 |