Character Group PLC Transaction in Own Shares (9457R)

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RNS Number : 9457R

Character Group PLC

05 March 2019

5 March 2019

The Character Group plc

("Character Group" or the "Company")

Transaction in Own Shares

Character Group (AIM: CCT) announces that it has today bought back for cancellation 9,000 ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") pursuant to the share buyback programme announced on 12 December 2018 (the "Programme") and the Company's stated objective to enhance shareholder value.

As a result of the above, the Company's issued share capital consists of 23,696,798 Ordinary Shares. The Company holds 2,472,506 Ordinary Shares in treasury which do not carry voting rights and therefore the total number of voting rights in Character Group is 21,224,292. The figure of 21,224,292 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 change to their interest, in the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

The Company has an unutilised capacity to buy back up to a further 3,143,983 Ordinary Shares under the authority granted at the Annual General Meeting on 18 January 2019.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), the schedules below contain a summary of and detailed information about the purchases made by Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited on behalf of the Company as part of the Programme.

Schedule 1: Summary of buy-back transactions

 
 Date of purchase:                        5 March 2019 
 Number of Ordinary Shares purchased:            9,000 
                                         ------------- 
 Highest price paid per Ordinary Share 
  (pence)                                          550 
                                         ------------- 
 Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share 
  (pence)                                          550 
                                         ------------- 
 Volume weighted average price paid 
  per Ordinary Share (pence)                       550 
                                         ------------- 
 

Schedule 2: Details of buy-back transactions

 
                                                              Transaction 
                                                             price (pence 
                    Time of purchase   Number of Ordinary    per Ordinary 
Date of purchase     (hh:mm - GMT)       Shares purchased          Share) 
5/03/19             14.28                           9,000             550 
                   -----------------  -------------------  -------------- 
 

Enquiries:

The Character Group plc

Kiran Shah, Joint MD

Tel: [phone]

Panmure Gordon, Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker

Atholl Tweedie, Investment Banking

Charles Leigh-Pemberton, Corporate Broking

Tel: [phone]

Allenby Capital Limited, Joint Broker

Nick Athanas

Tel: [phone]

Tooley Street Communications, IR & Media Relations

Fiona Tooley

Tel: [phone]

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