Increase in share capital

RNS Number : 1981J

RWS Holdings PLC

19 August 2021

 

For immediate release  19 August 2021

 RWS Holdings plc

Increase in share capital

RWS Holdings plc ("RWS" or "the Company"), the world's leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property support services, announces that 130,677 new ordinary shares of 1 pence each in RWS ("RWS Shares") have been issued today in order to satisfy the exercise of options by a number of employees under the SDL plc 2018 Sharesave Scheme (which was rolled over into an RWS scheme at the time of RWS's acquisition of SDL plc in November 2020 and has recently matured) at 258.04 pence per share.  Admission is expected to take place at 8.00am on 25 August 2021.

Following this exercise, the Company's issued share capital comprises 389,372,535 RWS Shares. RWS has no RWS Shares held in treasury. The above figure includes 55,896 RWS Shares that are held by the RWS Holdings plc Employee Benefit Trust in order to satisfy awards under the Company's employee share schemes.  Therefore shareholders may use the figure of 389,316,639 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, RWS under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information, please visit: www.rws.com .

RWS Holdings plc Andrew Brode, Chairman Ian El-Mokadem, Chief Executive Officer Des Glass, Chief Financial Officer

01753 480796

MHP (Financial PR advisor) Katie Hunt / Simon Hockridge

[e-mail]   0203 128 8100

Numis (Nomad & Joint Broker) Stuart Skinner / Kevin Cruickshank/Will Baunton Berenberg (Joint Broker) Ben Wright/Toby Flaux/ Alix Mecklenburg-Solodkoff

0207 260 1000 0203 207 7800

 

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