Ricardo PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (6341E)

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RNS Number : 6341E

Ricardo PLC

09 May 2017

Ricardo PLC

Director / PDMR Shareholdings

9 May 2017

London

Purchase of Shares

Ricardo PLC (the "Company") announces that on 9 May 2017 it received notification from William Spencer, non-executive director, that on 9 May 2017 he purchased 8000 ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company ("Shares") in the market at a price of GBP9.15 per Share.

Following the above transaction, the total beneficial holding of Shares of William Spencer is 0.015%.

The following notifications are intended to satisfy the Company's obligations under Article 19(3) of EU Regulation No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation).

 
  1    Details of the person discharging managerial 
        responsibilities/person closely associated 
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  a)   Name                         William Spencer 
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  2    Reason for the notification 
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  a)   Position/status              Non-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                         Ricardo plc 
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  b)   LEI                          213800ZNYAY35F4XB814 
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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 25p each ("Shares") 
        of the financial 
        instrument, 
        type of instrument 
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       Identification               GB0007370074 
        code 
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  b)   Nature of                   Purchase of Shares. 
        the transaction 
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  c)   Price(s) and                 Price(s)    Volume(s) 
        volume(s)                   ----------  ---------- 
                                      GBP9.15      8000 
                                    ----------  ---------- 
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  d)    Aggregated                 Not applicable 
         information 
          *    Aggregated volume 
 
 
          *    Price 
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  e)   Date of the                 2017-05-09 
        transaction 
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  f)   Place of the                London Stock Exchange 
        transaction 
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