Director/PDMR Dealing and Total Voting Rights

RNS Number : 2267W

YouGov PLC

21 April 2021

 

21 April 2021

YouGov plc

("YouGov" or "the Company")

Director/PDMR Dealing and Total Voting Rights

YouGov, the international research and data analytics group, announces that on 20 April 2021 the Company approved the allotment and issue of 5,395 new o rdinary shares of 0.2p each ("Ordinary Shares") .

Under the Company's remuneration policy, a proportion of the Non-Executive Directors' annual fee is paid in the form of Ordinary Shares in lieu of cash, except if a Non-Executive Director has an existing substantial shareholding. Accordingly, the Company has approved the allotment and issue of 5,395 new Ordinary Shares as follows:

· 1,471 new Ordinary Shares representing a value of £15,000* to Ms Rosemary Leith

· 491 new Ordinary Shares representing a value of £5,000* to Mr Ashley Martin

· 491 new Ordinary Shares representing a value of £5,000* to Ms Andrea Newman

· 2,942 new Ordinary Shares representing a value of £30,000* to Mr Roger Parry

(*Based on a closing price of 1020p as at 19 April 2021, being the previous business day.)

Following this issue, the shareholdings of these Non-Executive Directors will be as follows:

· Ms Leith will hold 14,498 Ordinary Shares (representing approximately 0.01% of the Company's total issued share capital).

· Mr Martin will hold 7,990 Ordinary Shares (representing approximately 0.007% of the Company's total issued share capital).

· Ms Newman will hold 3,647 Ordinary Shares (representing approximately 0.003% of the Company's total issued share capital).

· Mr Parry will hold 112,929 Ordinary Shares (representing approximately 0.1% of the Company's total issued share capital).

Application has been made for the admission of these new Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM with admission anticipated to be on 26 April 2021.

The total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights in issue following the issue of these new Ordinary Shares is 111,257,202. No Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. The above figure includes 601,282 Ordinary Shares that are held by the YouGov Employee Benefit Trust in order to satisfy awards under the Company's employee share schemes. Shareholders may use the figure of 110,655,920, 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 Group under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Enquiries:

YouGov plc Tilly Heald (Company Secretary)	020 7012 6000
FTI Consulting Charles Palmer / Elena Kalinskaya	020 3727 1000
Numis Securities (NOMAD and Joint Broker) Nick Westlake / Hugo Rubinstein / Matt Lewis	020 7260 1000
Berenberg (Joint Broker) Mark Whitmore / Alix Mecklenburg-Solodkoff	020 3207 7800

DEALING NOTIFICATION FORM
FOR USE BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THEIR CLOSELY ASSOCIATED PERSONS

	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Rosemary Leith
	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Non-Executive Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	YouGov plc
b)	LEI:	213800MZGBGCJIPOBB41
	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 0.2p each GB00B1VQ6H25
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Acquisition of shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s) Volume(s) £10.20 1,471
d)	Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price:	n/a
e)	Date of the transaction:	20 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction:	London Stock Exchange [XLON]

DEALING NOTIFICATION FORM
FOR USE BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THEIR CLOSELY ASSOCIATED PERSONS

	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Ashley Martin
	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Non-Executive Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	YouGov plc
b)	LEI:	213800MZGBGCJIPOBB41
	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 0.2p each GB00B1VQ6H25
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Acquisition of shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s) Volume(s) £10.20 491
d)	Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price:	n/a
e)	Date of the transaction:	20 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction:	London Stock Exchange [XLON]

DEALING NOTIFICATION FORM
FOR USE BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THEIR CLOSELY ASSOCIATED PERSONS

	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Andrea Newman
	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Non-Executive Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	YouGov plc
b)	LEI:	213800MZGBGCJIPOBB41
	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 0.2p each GB00B1VQ6H25
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Acquisition of shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s) Volume(s) £10.20 491
d)	Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price:	n/a
e)	Date of the transaction:	20 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction:	London Stock Exchange [XLON]

DEALING NOTIFICATION FORM
FOR USE BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THEIR CLOSELY ASSOCIATED PERSONS

	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Roger Parry
	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Non-Executive Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	YouGov plc
b)	LEI:	213800MZGBGCJIPOBB41
	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 0.2p each GB00B1VQ6H25
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Acquisition of shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s) Volume(s) £10.20 2,942
d)	Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price:	n/a
e)	Date of the transaction:	20 April 2021
f)	Place of the transaction:	London Stock Exchange [XLON]

 

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