Purchase of shares by Chairman and employee trust

RNS Number : 0997V

Zoo Digital Group PLC

06 January 2012

 



ZOO DIGITAL GROUP PLC

("ZOO" or "the Company")

Purchase of shares by Chairman and employee trust

ZOO announces that it was notified yesterday that, on the same day, Roger Jeynes (non executive Chairman of the Company) and the ZOO Employee Share Trust Limited ("ZEST") purchased, in aggregate, 250,000 ordinary shares of 15 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares").

Roger Jeynes purchased 100,000 Ordinary Shares at 9.5 pence per Ordinary Shares, after which he is interested in 120,000 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.04% of the Company's issued share capital.

ZEST purchased 150,000 Ordinary Shares at an average price of 9.2 pence per Ordinary Share (with individual trades ranging between 9.0 and 9.5 pence per Ordinary Share), after which ZEST is interested in 534,105 Ordinary Shares, representing 1.63% of the Company's issued share capital. ZEST is the beneficial owner of 292,539 of these Ordinary Shares, the balance being held in trust by ZEST on behalf of employees

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For further enquiries please contact:

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 / Terry Garrett / Hilary Millar

About ZOO Digital Group plc:

ZOO Digital Group plc provides software and related services that support the authoring, re-purposing and distribution of creative media. ZOO's products form an integrated suite of web-based and desktop applications for audio/visual content and printed materials, adapting these media for different languages, formats and delivery mechanisms.

By centralising editorial and approval processes via secure web-based platforms, ZOO's proprietary patented software helps customers to increase their speed of production, reduce costs and protect their brand integrity. ZOO's services enable quicker and more cost effective processes across a wide range of applications and formats, including packaging, printed materials, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, video on demand, electronic sell-through, broadcast, music and electronic books.

The Group's largest customers include major Hollywood studios, for which the production, marketing and distribution of titles in numerous formats across many geographies and languages has previously been a lengthy, costly and largely manual process. Increasingly the Group's software is benefiting a variety of companies across sectors where the development of media products, printing, packaging and marketing involves complex processes in multiple countries and languages, particularly where brand integrity is of core importance.

 

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