Pets At Home Group Plc Notification of Transaction of PDMR (2283K)

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RNS Number : 2283K

Pets At Home Group Plc

19 September 2016

19 September 2016

Notification of Transaction of PDMR

Pets at Home Group Plc

Pets at Home Group Plc ("the Company") makes the following announcement regarding one of its Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility's (PDMR) participation in the Company's Sharesave Plan ("Sharesave")

The Sharesave Plan is a tax advantaged share option plan available to all of the Company's employees, subject to qualifying conditions. It offers the opportunity for employees to buy ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("Share") in the Company using savings accumulated over a three year period.

The PDMR detailed below has elected to cancel his participation in the 2015 offer of Sharesave, resulting in the lapsing of the options originally granted to him on 6 October 2015 with an exercise price of GBP2.30 per Share. The options would have become exercisable on 1 December 2018. 3,913 options lapsed. The notification of dealing form for the PDMR can be found below.

 
 1     Details of the person discharging managerial 
        responsibilities/person closely associated 
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 a)    Name                              Peter Pritchard 
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 2     Reason for the notification 
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 a)    Position/status                   Chief Executive of the Retail 
                                          Division 
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 b)    Initial notification/Amendment    Initial notification 
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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                              Pets at Home Group Plc 
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 b)    LEI                               N/A 
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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 of                    Options over Ordinary shares 
        the financial                     of 1 pence each in Pets at Home 
        instrument, type                  Group Plc 
        of instrument                     ISIN GB00BJ62K685 
        Identification 
        code 
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 b)    Nature of the                     Peter Pritchard cancelled his 
        Transaction                       participation in the 2015 offer 
                                          under the Pets at Home Group 
                                          Sharesave Scheme and discontinued 
                                          his monthly contributions resulting 
                                          in the lapsing of the Options 
                                          originally granted to him on 
                                          the 6th October 2015 with an 
                                          exercise price of GBP2.30 per 
                                          Share. The Sharesave is a tax 
                                          advantaged share scheme offered 
                                          to all eligible employees of 
                                          the Company. 
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 c)    Price(s) and volume(s)            Price(s)                Volume(s) 
----  --------------------------------  ----------------------  ----------------------------- 
   GBP2.30                                                       3,913 
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 d)         Aggregated information       Price                   Aggregated   Aggregate 
                                                                 volume        Total 
              *    Aggregated volume 
 
 
 
              *    Price 
----  --------------------------------  ----------------------  -----------  ---------------- 
   GBP2.30 per 
    Share                                                        3,913        8999.90 
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 e)    Date of Transaction               16(th) September 2016 
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 f)    Place of Transaction              London Stock Exchange (XLON) 
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This announcement is made in accordance with Article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation and the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Persons responsible for arranging the release of this announcement

Louise Stonier

Group Legal Director and Company Secretary

Pets at Home Group Plc

Epsom Avenue

Stanley Green Trading Estate

Handforth

Cheshire

SK9 3RN

Tel: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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