Director's Share Dealing

RNS Number : 3605E

GVC Holdings PLC

09 May 2013

 



Press Release

9 May 2013

GVC Holdings PLC

("GVC" or the "Group")

Director's Share Dealing

GVC Holdings PLC (AIM:GVC), a leading provider of B2B and B2C services to the online gaming and sports betting markets, announces that the Group has been notified that Kenneth Alexander, Chief Executive, acquired on Thursday 9 May 2013 87,000 ordinary shares of €0.01 each in the Group ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 287.5 pence per share.  Following this purchase, Kenneth Alexander has a beneficial interest in 400,333 Ordinary Shares in GVC, representing 0.66 per cent. of GVC's share capital.

GVC has also been notified that Richard Cooper, Group Finance Director, exercised 106,667 share options at a price of 126 pence per share on Thursday 9 May 2013.  Following this option exercise, Mr Cooper has a beneficial interest in 241,667 Ordinary Shares in GVC, representing 0.40 per cent. of GVC's share capital.

The beneficial holdings stated above include the existing holdings held by the spouses of Kenneth Alexander and Richard Cooper, namely Caroline Alexander and Pascale Mourier Cooper, which prior to the purchase and exercise of the shares as detailed above, were 313,333 Ordinary Shares and 135,000 Ordinary Shares respectively.

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For further information:

GVC Holdings PLC
Kenneth Alexander, Chief Executive	Tel: [phone]
Richard Cooper, Group Finance Director	www.gvc-plc.com

Daniel Stewart & Company Plc	Tel: [phone]
David Hart / Paul Shackleton / James Felix	www.danielstewart.co.uk

Media enquiries:

Abchurch
Henry Harrison-Topham / Shabnam Bashir	Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]	www.abchurch-group.com

About GVC Holdings PLC

GVC Holdings PLC is a leading provider of B2B and B2C services to the online gaming and sports betting markets.  The Group is headquartered in the Isle of Man and is licensed in Malta, the UK, South Africa, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Alderney and the Netherlands Antilles.

Further information on the Group is available at www.gvc-plc.com

 

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