Blue Prism Group PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (7918X)

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RNS Number : 7918X

Blue Prism Group PLC

14 August 2018

14 August 2018

Blue Prism Group plc

("Blue Prism" or the "Group")

DIRECTOR / PDMR SHAREHOLDING

Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM), a global leader in Robotic Process Automation ("RPA"), announces that the Group's Chief Customer Officer, Neil Wright, has sold 300,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Group ("Ordinary Shares"), representing approximately 0.45 per cent of the issued share capital of Blue Prism at a price of 1990 pence per share.

Following this sale, Neil Wright retains an interest in 430,205 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 0.64 per cent of Blue Prism's issued share capital.

The Group has been advised that Neil Wright has no current intention to make any further sales of Ordinary Shares.

 
 1.     Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person 
         closely associated 
 (a)    Name                                       Neil Wright 
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 2.     Reason for the notification 
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 (a)    Position/status                            Chief Customer Officer 
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 (b)    Initial notification/                      Initial notification 
         Amendment 
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 3.     Details of the issuer 
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 (a)    Name                                       BLUE PRISM GROUP PLC 
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 (b)    LEI                                        2138006DQE9FNUW8KO83 
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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 the                         Ordinary shares of GBP0.01 each 
         Financial Instrument 
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 (b)    Identification code                        GB00BYQ0HV16 
         of the Financial 
         Instrument 
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 (c)    Nature of the transaction                  Sale of shares 
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 (d)    Price(s) and volume(s)                     Price(s)           Volume(s) 
                                                  -----------------  ---------------- 
   1990p                                                              300,000 
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 (e)    Aggregated information 
          *    Aggregated volume                     300,000 shares 
 
                                                     1990p 
         - Price 
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 (f)    Date of the transaction                    14 August 2018 
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 (g)    Place of the transaction                   London Stock Exchange 
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For further information please contact:

 
 Blue Prism Group plc                     via FTI Consulting 
  Alastair Bathgate, Chief Executive 
  Officer 
  Ijoma Maluza, Chief Financial Officer 
 Investec Bank plc                        Tel: [phone] 
  Andrew Pinder 
  Carlton Nelson 
  Sebastian Lawrence 
 FTI Consulting                           Tel: [phone] 
  Matt Dixon 
  Dwight Burden 
 

About Blue Prism

Blue Prism Group plc ("Blue Prism" or the "Group"), is a UK-headquartered global software company.

As the pioneer, innovator and a market leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Blue Prism delivers the world's most successful Digital Workforce. The company's Digital Workers (software robots) provide business leaders with new operational capacity and intelligent skills to automate repetitive administrative tasks, while meeting the requirements of the most demanding IT environments, where security, compliance and scalability are paramount.

Blue Prism provides a scalable and robust execution platform for best-of-breed AI and cognitive technologies and has emerged as the trusted and secure RPA platform of choice. Billions of transactions and hundreds of millions of hours of work are executed on Blue Prism robots from renowned companies including Aegon, BNY Mellon, Coca-Cola, Commerzbank, IBM, ING, Maersk, Nokia, Nordea, Procter & Gamble, Raiffeisen Bank, Siemens, Westpac and Zurich. As at 30 April 2018, Blue Prism had 271 employees based out of offices in Newton le Willows and London (UK), Sydney (Australia), Tokyo (Japan), Bangalore (India), Austin, Miami, Chicago, New York and San Francisco (US), Munich (Germany), Paris (France) and Singapore

For more information visit www.blueprism.com and follow the Group on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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