boohoo group plc Issuance of Ordinary Shares to NEDs & TVR

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RNS Number : 1036Q

boohoo group plc

23 February 2021

 
 For Immediate Release   23 February 2021 
 
 

boohoo group plc

("boohoo" or the "Company" and together with its subsidiaries the "Group" or "the boohoo group")

Issuance of Ordinary Shares to all Non--Executive Directors and Total Voting Rights

boohoo group plc (AIM: BOO), a leading online fashion group , announces that it has issued new ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("New Ordinary Shares") to its Non--Executive Directors as part of their compensation package.

A total of 14,276 New Ordinary Shares were issued at an effective price of 350.15 pence under the terms of their letter of appointment which require compensation to be made partly in cash and partly in Ordinary Shares. The New Ordinary Shares represent the share compensation due for the financial year ending 28 February 2021 and are subject to lock in provisions for as long as the recipient remains a director of boohoo. The details of the issuance are set out below:

 
 Director            Value of      Number of        Number of       Percentage 
                      the share     New Ordinary     Ordinary        of the enlarged 
                      issuance      Shares Issued    Shares held     Ordinary 
                                                     following       Share Capital 
                                                     the issuance 
 Brian Small         GBP20,000     5,711            62,381          0.005% 
                    ------------  ---------------  --------------  ----------------- 
 Shaun McCabe        GBP10,000     2,855            102,855         0.008% 
                    ------------  ---------------  --------------  ----------------- 
 Pierre Cuilleret    GBP10,000     2,855            217,336         0.017% 
                    ------------  ---------------  --------------  ----------------- 
 Iain McDonald       GBP10,000     2,855            521,336         0.041% 
                    ------------  ---------------  --------------  ----------------- 
 

Trading in the New Ordinary Shares, which will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing Ordinary Shares, is expected to commence on or around 2 March 2021.

Total Voting Rights

Following admission of the New Ordinary Shares, the total number of ordinary shares and voting rights in the Company will be 1,261,290,755. The Company does not hold any shares in treasury.

The above figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 
 Enquiries 
 boohoo group plc 
 Neil Catto, Chief Financial Officer        Tel: [phone] 
                                             2050 
 Alistair Davies, Investor Relations        Tel: [phone] 
                                             2050 
 Clara Melia, Investor Relations            Tel: [phone] 
                                             5520 
 
 Zeus Capital - Nominated adviser and 
  joint broker 
 Nick Cowles/Andrew Jones (Corporate        Tel: [phone] 
  Finance)                                   1512 
 John Goold/Benjamin Robertson (Corporate   Tel: [phone] 
  Broking)                                   5000 
 
 Jefferies - Joint broker 
 Philip Noblet/Max Jones                    Tel: [phone] 
                                             8000 
 
 Buchanan - Financial PR adviser            [e-mail] 
 Richard Oldworth / Kim Looringh-van        Tel: [phone] 
  Beeck / Toto Berger / Sophie Wills         5000 
 

About boohoo group plc

"Leading the fashion eCommerce market"

Founded in Manchester in 2006, boohoo is an inclusive and innovative brand targeting young, value-orientated customers. Since 2006, boohoo has been pushing boundaries to bring its customers up-to-date and inspirational fashion, 24/7. boohoo has grown rapidly in the UK and internationally, expanding its offering with range extensions into menswear, through boohooMAN.

In early 2017 the Group extended its customer offering through the acquisitions of the vibrant fashion brand PrettyLittleThing, and free-thinking brand Nasty Gal. In March 2019 the Group acquired the MissPap brand, in August 2019 the Karen Millen and Coast brands and in June 2020 the Warehouse and Oasis brands, all complementary to the Group's scalable, multi-brand platform. United by a shared customer value proposition, our brands design, source, market and sell great quality clothes, shoes and accessories at affordable prices. These investment propositions have helped us grow from a single brand, into a major multi-brand online retailer, leading the fashion e-commerce market for 16 to 40-year-olds with a global presence. As at 31 August 2020, the Group had just over 17 million active customers across all its brands around the world.

In January 2021, the Group acquired the intellectual property assets of Debenhams, with the goal of transforming a leading UK fashion and beauty retailer into an online marketplace through a new capital light and low risk operating model that is complementary to the Group's highly successful direct-to-consumer multi-brand platform. In February 2021, the Group acquired the intellectual property assets of UK brands Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis.

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