Exercise of Options, PDMR Notification and TVR

RNS Number : 1398S

dotDigital Group plc

12 March 2021

 

12 March 2021

dotdigital Group plc

("dotdigital" or the "Company")

Exercise of Options, PDMR Notification and Total Voting Rights

dotdigital Group Plc (AIM:DOTD), the leading 'SaaS' provider of an omnichannel marketing automation and customer engagement platform, announces that it has today issued and allotted 85,000 ordinary shares of 0.5p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") following an exercise of options over Ordinary Shares ("Options") by employees of the Company.

The Company notifies that George Kasparian, FD, Company Secretary and a PDMR, has exercised options over 65,000 Ordinary Shares at an exercise price of 68.5 pence. Following the exercise, George Kasparian's total shareholding is 65,000 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.02 per cent. of the total share capital of the Company.

Pursuant to the exercise of Options, an application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for 85,000 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will become effective on or around 18 March 2021.

Following Admission, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 298,632,645 Ordinary Shares, of which a total of 660,000 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights in the Company will be 297,972,645.

The above figure of 297,972,645 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

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

For further information please contact:

dotdigital Group Plc Milan Patel, CEO Paraag Amin, CFO	Tel: [phone] [e-mail]
Alma PR (Financial PR) Josh Royston David Ison Kieran Breheny	Tel: [phone] [e-mail]
Canaccord Genuity (Nominated Advisor and Joint Broker) Bobbie Hilliam Georgina McCooke Jonathan Barr, Sales	Tel: [phone]
finnCap (Joint Broker) Stuart Andrews, Corporate Finance Alice Lane, ECM Rhys Williams, Sales	Tel: [phone]
N+1 Singer (Joint Broker) Shaun Dobson, Head of Corporate Finance Alex Bond, Corporate Finance	Tel: [phone]

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

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	George Kasparian
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	PDMR: Company Secretary
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	dotdigital Group plc
b)	LEI	2138006LZ7HHQ6DWFD42
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 0.5 pence each  GB00B3W40C23
b)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of options over Ordinary Shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 68.5p 65,000
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	N/A
e)	Date of the transaction	12 March 2021
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange (XLON)

Prior to this announcement's release, the statement contained inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (MAR) (Market Abuse Regulation).

 

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