Character Group PLC Director's share dealings, Treasury shares and TVR (0485L)

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RNS Number : 0485L

Character Group PLC

28 December 2022

Wednesday, 28 December 2022

The Character Group plc

Designers, developers and international distributor of branded toys, games and giftware

(the "Company")

Directors' share dealings

Transfer of treasury shares

and Total Voting Rights

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

The Character Group plc (AIM: CCT) announces that, as part of the arrangements with certain of the executive Directors of the Company which obliges those Directors to apply a proportion of their net cash annual bonus entitlements in the purchase of shares in the Company, 49,318 ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of the Company held as treasury shares ("the Sale Shares") were today transferred out of treasury and sold by the Company at a price of 430p per share, being the mid-market closing price of an issued ordinary share in the capital of the Company on 23 December 2022. The Sale Shares were purchased by Mr Jon Diver, Mr Kiran Shah and Mr Joe Kissane, being Directors of the Company and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities (PDMRs), from their net cash annual bonus entitlements for the financial year ended 31 August 2022. The said Directors have, accordingly, notified the Company of share transactions effected today by them respectively as follows:

-- Mr Jon Diver, Joint Managing Director, purchased 27,733 Sale Shares at a price of 430p per share. Following this purchase, Mr Diver's interest in shares in the Company has increased to 1,284,089 Ordinary Shares, which represents approximately 6.63% of the Company's issued voting share capital.

-- Mr Kiran Shah, Joint Managing Director and Group Finance Director, purchased 14,390 Sale Shares at a price of 430p per share. Following this purchase, Mr Shah's interest in shares in the Company has increased to 1,928,766 Ordinary Shares, which represents approximately 9.96% of the Company's issued voting share capital.

-- Mr Joe Kissane, Managing Director of UK operations, purchased 7,195 Sale Shares at a price of 430p per share. Following this purchase, Mr Kissane's interest in shares in the Company has increased to 463,519 Ordinary Shares, which represents approximately 2.39% of the Company's issued voting share capital.

The information set out below is provided in accordance with the requirements of Article 19(3) of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 which is part of UK domestic law pursuant to the Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) regulations (SI 2019/310) .

 
            1.   Details of the persons discharging managerial responsibilities 
                  / person closely associated 
 a.              Name                             Jon Diver, Kiran Shah and Joe Kissane 
                -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
            2.   Reason for the notification 
                ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
            a.   Position/status                  Joint Managing Director/Joint Managing 
                                                   Director and Group Finance Director/Managing 
                                                   Director, UK Operations 
                -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
            b.   Initial notification/Amendment   Initial notification 
                -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 
            3.   Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
                  auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
                ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
            a.   Name                             The Character Group plc 
                -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
            b.   LEI                              213800HY6EB8T8VWWE73 
                -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
            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 
                ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
            a.   Description of the               Ordinary shares of 5 pence 
                  Financial instrument, type 
                  of instrument                    GB0008976119 
                  Identification code 
                -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
            b.   Nature of the transaction        Purchase of shares, pursuant to The 
                                                   Character Group plc's annual bonus arrangements 
                                                   for the 2022 financial year 
                -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
            c.   Price(s) and volume(s)            Name           Price(s)   Volume 
                                                    Jon Diver      430p       27,733 
                                                                  ---------  ------- 
                                                    Kiran Shah     430p       14,390 
                                                                  ---------  ------- 
                                                    Joe Kissane    430p       7,195 
                                                                  ---------  ------- 
                -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
            d.        Aggregated information      Not applicable. 
                        *    Aggregated volume 
 
 
                        *    Price 
                -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
            e.   Date of the transaction          28 December 2022 
                -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
            f.   Place of the transaction         London Stock Exchange, AIM 
                -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------- 
 

Total voting rights (TVR)

Following the above transactions, the Company's issued share capital consists of 21,465,929 Ordinary Shares of which 2,100,159 are held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares carrying voting rights in Character Group is 19,365,770 . This figure of 19,365,770 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest, or a change to their interest, in the Company under the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

 
ENQUIRIES: 
The Character Group plc 
 Ray Smyth, Company Secretary 
 Office: [phone] 
 Email: [e-mail] 
 
Panmure Gordon 
(Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) 
Atholl Tweedie, Investment Banking 
Rupert Dearden/Charles Leigh-Pemberton, Corporate Broking 
Tel: [phone] 
 
Allenby Capital Limited 
 (Joint Broker) 
 Nick Athanas, Corporate Finance 
 Amrit Nahal, Sales & Corporate Broking 
 Tel: [phone] 
 
TooleyStreet Communications Limited 
 (Investor and media relations) 
 Fiona Tooley 
 Tel: [phone] 
 Email: [e-mail] 
 

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