Sports Direct International Plc Transaction in Own Shares (0550L)

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RNS Number : 0550L

Sports Direct International Plc

14 July 2017

Released: 14 July 2017

Sports Direct International Plc

14 July 2017

SPORTS DIRECT INTERNATIONAL PLC ("Sports Direct" or "the Company")

SHARE BUYBACK

Transaction in Own Shares

Sports Direct announces that on 13 July 2017 it purchased 24,592 of its ordinary shares from Citigroup Global Markets Limited (acting as the Company's broker) on the London Stock Exchange at a price of 299.9 pence per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, the Company holds 108,848,236 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 531,754,133.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), detailed information about the individual purchases made by Citigroup Global Markets Limited is set out below.

Aggregated information:

 
 Platform code                BATE 
 Date of purchase:            13-Jul-17 
 Number of ordinary shares 
  purchased:                  3,173 
 Volume weighted average 
  price paid per share:       299.87 
 
 Platform code                XLON 
 Date of purchase:            13-Jul-17 
 Number of ordinary shares 
  purchased:                  10,802 
 Volume weighted average 
  price paid per share:       299.86 
 
 Platform code                CHIX 
 Date of purchase:            13-Jul-17 
 Number of ordinary shares 
  purchased:                  6,154 
 Volume weighted average 
  price paid per share:       299.90 
 
 Platform code                TRQX 
 Date of purchase:            13-Jul-17 
 Number of ordinary shares 
  purchased:                  4,463 
 Volume weighted average 
  price paid per share:       299.86 
 

Transaction details:

 
 Transaction    Transaction             Price (p)   Platform 
     date           time       Volume                 code 
               -------------  -------  ----------  --------- 
  13/07/2017    08:00:26:513    107       299.9       XLON 
  13/07/2017    08:11:18:583     40       299.9       TRQX 
  13/07/2017    08:11:44:995    115       299.8       BATE 
  13/07/2017    08:14:18:271     84       299.9       CHIX 
  13/07/2017    08:17:01:171    374       299.5       TRQX 
  13/07/2017    08:17:01:171    285       299.5       XLON 
  13/07/2017    08:17:01:171    584       299.5       XLON 
  13/07/2017    08:49:37:315    841       299.9       BATE 
  13/07/2017    08:49:37:316    853       299.9       CHIX 
  13/07/2017    08:49:52:535    806       299.9       XLON 
  13/07/2017    08:49:52:535    798       299.9       XLON 
  13/07/2017    08:49:54:252    2395      299.9       CHIX 
  13/07/2017    08:49:54:252    1604      299.9       XLON 
  13/07/2017    08:52:35:933    1170      299.9       XLON 
  13/07/2017    08:52:35:933    1604      299.9       TRQX 
  13/07/2017    09:00:37:354    1080      299.8       XLON 
  13/07/2017    09:43:00:010    201       299.9       BATE 
  13/07/2017    09:43:00:010     8        299.9       BATE 
  13/07/2017    09:44:38:327     50       299.7       TRQX 
  13/07/2017    09:44:38:328    199       299.7       BATE 
  13/07/2017    09:57:16:297    555       299.9       CHIX 
  13/07/2017    09:57:17:849    2172      299.9       XLON 
  13/07/2017    09:57:17:849    368       299.9       BATE 
  13/07/2017    09:57:17:849    368       299.9       TRQX 
  13/07/2017    09:57:17:849    1659      299.9       TRQX 
  13/07/2017    09:57:17:850    245       299.9       CHIX 
  13/07/2017    09:57:17:850    475       299.9       BATE 
  13/07/2017    09:57:17:850    1891      299.9       XLON 
  13/07/2017    09:57:17:850    305       299.9       XLON 
  13/07/2017    09:57:17:850    1120      299.9       CHIX 
  13/07/2017    09:57:17:850    598       299.9       BATE 
  13/07/2017    09:57:17:930    573       299.9       CHIX 
  13/07/2017    09:57:18:500    329       299.9       CHIX 
  13/07/2017    10:00:30:944    368       299.8       TRQX 
  13/07/2017    10:00:30:944    368       299.8       BATE 
-------------  -------------  -------  ----------  --------- 
 

Ends.

Sports Direct International plc

   Cameron Olsen, Company Secretary                  T. 0344 245 9200 

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   Keith Bishop                                                     T. 0207 734 9995 

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