Employee Share Purchase

RNS Number : 2152K

Zoo Digital Group PLC

15 April 2010

 



ZOO DIGITAL GROUP PLC

("ZOO" or "the Group")

Purchase of shares on behalf of the employee share trust

The ZOO Employee Share Trust Limited (the "ZEST") has today completed the purchase of 160,000 ordinary shares of 15p in the Company at a price of 33 pence per share. ZEST's resultant shareholding is 478,683 shares (representing 2.23% of ZOO's issued share capital).  ZEST is the beneficial owner of 183,467 of these shares, the balance is held in trust by ZEST on behalf of employees.

ZEST is a wholly owned subsidiary of ZOO whose purpose is to hold shares in ZOO for the benefit of the employees of the Group. 

ZOO Digital Group plc	0114 241 3700
Stuart Green - Chief Executive Officer
Helen Gilder - Group Finance Director
FinnCap	020 7600 1658
Marc Young/ Henrik Persson
Threadneedle Communications	020 7653 9850
Josh Royston / Graham Herring

Notes to Editors

About ZOO Digital Group plc:

ZOO Digital Group plc is a provider of creative media transformation software and related services. ZOO's products form an integrated suite of desktop applications and on-demand systems that work with printed materials and audio/visual content, adapting these media to different languages, sizes, and technical formats.  ZOO makes this process extremely quick and cost effective and is clearly differentiated in the market.

ZOO's services are built on its proprietary patented software and enable customers to reduce considerably the costs and time to market of regionalized filmed entertainment titles and marketing campaigns across multiple territories and across a wide range of applications and formats, including printed materials, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, video on demand, electronic sell-through and broadcast.  Working closely with language translation partners, ZOO's media adaptation software transforms computer-based workflows through radical process re-engineering and provides clear differentiation for the company's production, consulting and custom development services. 

ZOO is focused on the worldwide creative media production markets and in particular video production for entertainment applications, with customers including major film studios and other producers and publishers of video-based consumer products.

 

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