Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 6861C

ASOS PLC

20 October 2020

 

20 October 2020

ASOS Plc

Director/PDMR Shareholding

ASOS Plc ('the Company') makes the following announcement regarding the transactions in ordinary shares of 3.5 pence each in the capital of the Company ('Share(s)') carried out by Luke Jensen, Non-executive Director, and one of his connected persons.

This announcement is made in accordance with Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014. 

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Luke Jensen
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Non-executive Director
b)	Initial notification / Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	ASOS Plc
b)	Legal Entity Identifier	213800H8DBB8JSKDW630
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 3.5 pence each GB0030927254
b)	Nature of the transaction	Purchase of Shares
c)	Currency	GBP
d)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)	Volume(s)
		£50.70	1,969
e)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total	N/A single transaction
f)	Date of the transaction	20 October 2020
g)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Sandrine Jensen
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Person closely associated with Luke Jensen, Non-executive Director
b)	Initial notification / Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	ASOS Plc
b)	Legal Entity Identifier	213800H8DBB8JSKDW630
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 3.5 pence each GB0030927254
b)	Nature of the transaction	Purchase of Shares
c)	Currency	GBP
d)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s)	Volume(s)
		£50.70	1,969
e)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total	N/A single transaction
f)	Date of the transaction	20 October 2020
g)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM

For further information:

ASOS plc  Tel: [phone]

Nick Beighton, Chief Executive Officer

Mat Dunn, Chief Financial Officer

Alison Lygo, Investor Relations

Website:  www.asosplc.com/investors

Headland Consultancy  Tel: [phone]

Susanna Voyle/Stephen Malthouse/  Fay Rajaratnam  

JPMorgan Cazenove (Nominated Advisor)  Tel: [phone]

Bill Hutchings/Christopher Wood

Numis Securities  Tel: [phone]

Alex Ham/Luke Bordewich 

Background note

ASOS is an online retailer for fashion-loving 20-somethings around the world, with a purpose to give its customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be. Through its market-leading app and mobile/desktop web experience, available in ten languages and in over 200 markets, ASOS customers can shop a curated edit of 85,000 products, sourced from 850 of the best global and local third-party brands and its mix of fashion-led in-house labels - ASOS Design, ASOS Edition, ASOS 4505 and Collusion. ASOS aims to give all of its customers a truly frictionless experience, with an ever-greater number of different payment methods and hundreds of local deliveries and returns options, including Next-Day and Same-Day Delivery, dispatched from state-of-the-art fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Germany.

ASOS's websites attracted 233.4m visits during August 2020 (August 2019: 187.4m) and as at 31 August 2020 had 23.4m active customers ¹  (31 August 2019: 20.3m), of which 7.1m were located in the UK and 16.3m were located in international territories (31 August 2019: 6.4m in the UK and 13.9m internationally).

¹  Defined as having shopped in the last 12 months as at 31 August

 

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