Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 0579C

Christie Group PLC

10 April 2017

 

10 April 2017

Christie Group plc

("Christie Group" or the "Company")

PDMR notification

Christie Group plc (AIM: CTG.L), the leading provider of Professional Business Services and Stock & Inventory Systems & Services to the leisure, retail and care markets, has been notified that on 7 April 2017, David Barry Rugg, Chief Executive, who is considered to be a person discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMR"), purchased 6,963 ordinary shares of 2 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 78.40 pence per Ordinary Share.

Accordingly, Mr Rugg's beneficial and non-beneficial holdings in the Company have increased to 2,818,009 ordinary shares, representing approximately 10.6 per cent of the total voting rights of the Company.

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail. 

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	David Barry Rugg
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Chief Executive
b)	Initial notification/ Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Christie Group plc
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 2 pence each  ISIN: GB0001953156
b)	Nature of the transaction		Purchase of shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)		Price No. of shares £0.784 6,963
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price		6,963 shares £5,458.99
e)	Date of the transaction		2017-04-07
f)	Place of the transaction		London Stock Exchange, AIM

For further information please contact:

Christie Group plc
Dan Prickett, Chief Financial Officer                                                                       020 7227 0700

Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited - Nominated Advisor & Broker
Dominic Morley / Charles Leigh-Pemberton                                                       020 7886 2500

About Christie Group:

Christie Group plc, quoted on AIM, is a leading professional business services group with 45 offices across the UK, Europe and Canada, catering to its specialist markets in the leisure, retail and care sectors.

Christie Group operates in two complementary business divisions: Professional Business Services (PBS) and Stock & Inventory Systems & Services (SISS). These divisions trade under the brand names: PBS - Christie & Co, Pinders, Christie Finance and Christie Insurance: SISS - Orridge, Venners and Vennersys.

Tracing its origins back to 1846, the Group has a long established reputation for offering essential services to client companies in agency, valuation services, investment, consultancy, project management, multi-functional trading systems and online ticketing services, stock audit and inventory management. The diversity of these services provides a natural balance to the Group's core agency business.

For more information, please go to www.christiegroup.com.

 

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