dotDigital Group plc Exercise of Options, PDMR Notification and TVR (1398S)

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RNS Number : 1398S

dotDigital Group plc

12 March 2021

12 March 2021

dotdigital Group plc

("dotdigital" or the "Company")

Exercise of Options, PDMR Notification and Total Voting Rights

dotdigital Group Plc (AIM:DOTD), the leading 'SaaS' provider of an omnichannel marketing automation and customer engagement platform, announces that it has today issued and allotted 85,000 ordinary shares of 0.5p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") following an exercise of options over Ordinary Shares ("Options") by employees of the Company.

The Company notifies that George Kasparian, FD, Company Secretary and a PDMR, has exercised options over 65,000 Ordinary Shares at an exercise price of 68.5 pence. Following the exercise, George Kasparian's total shareholding is 65,000 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.02 per cent. of the total share capital of the Company.

Pursuant to the exercise of Options, an application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for 85,000 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will become effective on or around 18 March 2021.

Following Admission, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 298,632,645 Ordinary Shares, of which a total of 660,000 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights in the Company will be 297,972,645.

The above figure of 297,972,645 may be used by shareholders 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 Guidance and Transparency Rules.

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail.

For further information please contact:

 
 dotdigital Group Plc                                Tel: [phone] 
  Milan Patel, CEO                                    [e-mail] 
  Paraag Amin, CFO 
 
 Alma PR (Financial PR)                              Tel: [phone] 
  Josh Royston                                        [e-mail] 
  David Ison 
  Kieran Breheny 
 
 Canaccord Genuity (Nominated Advisor                Tel: [phone] 
  and Joint Broker) 
  Bobbie Hilliam 
  Georgina McCooke 
  Jonathan Barr, Sales 
 
 finnCap (Joint Broker)                              Tel: [phone] 
  Stuart Andrews, Corporate Finance 
  Alice Lane, ECM 
  Rhys Williams, Sales 
 
 N+1 Singer (Joint Broker)                           Tel: [phone] 
  Shaun Dobson, Head of Corporate 
  Finance 
  Alex Bond, Corporate Finance 
 

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

 
 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
       / person closely associated 
 a)   Name                   George Kasparian 
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 2    Reason for the notification 
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 a)   Position/status        PDMR: Company Secretary 
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 b)   Initial notification   Initial Notification 
       /Amendment 
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 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
       auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
     --------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Name                   dotdigital Group plc 
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 b)   LEI                    2138006LZ7HHQ6DWFD42 
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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            Ordinary shares of 0.5 pence each 
       of the financial       GB00B3W40C23 
       instrument, 
       type of instrument 
       Identification 
       code 
     ---------------------  ---------------------------------------------- 
 b)   Nature of                   Exercise of options over Ordinary Shares 
       the transaction 
     ---------------------  ---------------------------------------------- 
 c)   Price(s)                Price(s)   Volume(s) 
       and volume(s)           68.5p      65,000 
     ---------------------  ---------------------------------------------- 
 d)   Aggregated 
       information             N/A 
       - Aggregated 
       volume 
       - Price 
     ---------------------  ---------------------------------------------- 
 e)   Date of the                 12 March 2021 
       transaction 
     ---------------------  ---------------------------------------------- 
 f)   Place of                                London Stock Exchange (XLON) 
       the transaction 
     ---------------------  ---------------------------------------------- 
 

Prior to this announcement's release, the statement contained inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (MAR) (Market Abuse Regulation).

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