ASOS PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (0413M)

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RNS Number : 0413M

ASOS PLC

25 July 2017

25 July 2017

ASOS Plc ("ASOS" or the "Company")

Director/PDMR Shareholding

The Company makes the following announcement in accordance with The Market Abuse Regulation:

 
 
   1      Details of the person discharging managerial 
          responsibilities/person closely associated 
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 a)     Name                          Nicholas Beighton 
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 2      Reason for the notification 
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 a)     Position/status               Executive Director 
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 b)     Initial notification          Initial notification 
         / Amendment 
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 3      Details of the issuer, emission allowance 
         market participant, auction platform, auctioneer 
         or auction monitor 
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 a)     Name                          ASOS Plc 
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 b)     Legal Entity                  213800H8DBB8JSKDW630 
         Identifier 
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 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 
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 a)     Description                  Ordinary shares of 3.5 pence 
         of the financial             each 
         instrument, 
         type of instrument 
 
         Identification               GB0030927254 
         code 
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 b)     Nature of                    Exercise of option under ASOS 
         the transaction              Plc SAYE Share Option Plan - 
                                      acquisition of ordinary shares 
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 c)     Currency                     GBP 
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 d)     Price(s)                         Price(s)          Volume(s) 
         and volume(s) 
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    GBP35.19                                             255 
  ---------------------------------------------------  ---------------- 
 
 e)     Aggregated                   Single transaction 
         information 
 
         - Aggregated                 N/A 
         volume                       N/A 
         - Price                      N/A 
         - Aggregated 
         total 
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 f)     Date of the                   Monday 24 July 2017 
         transaction 
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 g)     Place of                     London Stock Exchange, AIM 
         the transaction 
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For further information:

ASOS Plc

   Nick Beighton, Chief Executive Officer                                           Tel: [phone] 

Helen Ashton, Chief Financial Officer

Greg Feehely, Director of Investor Relations

Website: www.asosplc.com/investors

Instinctif Partners

   Matthew Smallwood / Guy Scarborough                                       Tel: [phone] 

JPMorgan Cazenove

   Michael Wentworth-Stanley / Caroline Thomlinson                        Tel: [phone] 

Numis Securities

Alex Ham / Luke Bordewich Tel: [phone]

Notes

ASOS is a global fashion destination for 20-somethings. We sell cutting-edge fashion and offer a wide variety of fashion-related content, making ASOS.com the hub of a thriving fashion community. We sell over 85,000 branded and own-label products through localised mobile and web experiences, delivering from our fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Europe to almost every country in the world.

We tailor the mix of own-label, global and local brands sold through each of our eight local language websites: UK, US, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia and Russia.

ASOS's websites attracted 127 million visits during February 2017 (February 2016: 106 million) and as at 28 February 2017 it had 14.1 million active customers(1) (29 February 2016: 10.9 million), of which 5.0 million were located in the UK and 9.1 million were located in our international territories (29 February 2016: 4.3 million in the UK and 6.6 million internationally).

(1) Defined as having shopped in the last twelve months as at 28 February 2017

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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