Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 8396T

Vianet Group PLC

06 July 2018

 

6 July 2018

Vianet Group

(the "Company")

Director/PDMR Shareholding

The Company announces that pursuant to terms of Vianet's LTIP, as announced on 22 December 2015, the following Directors and PDMRs have qualified under the Plan rules for an award, the net proceeds of which have been used to purchase in aggregate, a total of 225,743 Ordinary Shares (the "Share Awards") at a price of 120.0p in the Company as follows:

Name (Director/PDMR)	No. of Share Awards	Total number of Ordinary Shares held post Share Award	% of issued ordinary share capital.
Stewart Darling	125,743	188,987	0.67
Mark Foster	100,000	328,000	1.16

The Share Awards are being satisfied by the transfer of Shares from the Company's EBT. Following the transfer of Shares the EBT holds 230,107 ordinary shares representing 0.81% of the Company's issued share capital. As at 6 July 2018, the Company had 28,282,414 Ordinary Shares in issue.

The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the Market Abuse Regulation, provide further details in relation to Share Awards to the Company's Directors and PDMRs.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	1.    Stewart Darling 2.    Mark Foster
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	1.    Chief Executive Officer/Director 2.    Chief Financial Officer/Director
b)	Initial notification / amendment	Initial
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	VIANET GROUP PLC
b)	LEI	2138007KAM1HB8E7E134
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Ordinary Shares of 10p each ISIN: GB00B13YVN56
b)	Nature of the transaction	Share Awards
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 1.     120p per share 2.     120p per share 120.0p per share 125,743 100,000
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	N/A - single transaction
e)	Date of the transaction	6 July 2018
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside of a trading venue

For further information, please contact:

VIANET GROUP PLC
James Dickson - Chairman Mark Foster - CFO	T: [phone]
Cenkos Securities (Nominated Adviser & Broker)
Stephen Keys / Camilla Hume	[phone]

 

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