JD Sports Fashion Plc Director/PDMR Shareholding (2447E)

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RNS Number : 2447E

JD Sports Fashion Plc

16 October 2018

JD Sports Fashion Plc (the "Company")

Notification and Public Disclosure of a Transaction by a Director/Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities

The Company was notified on 16 October 2018 by Peter Cowgill (the Company's Executive Chairman) that he had acquired an interest in 10,000 ordinary shares of 0.25 pence each in the Company on 16 October 2018 at a price of GBP4.10 per ordinary share.

Following this purchase, Peter Cowgill has a total interest in 8,420,260 shares, representing 0.87% of the issued share capital of the Company.

 
 1.   Details of the PDMR / person closely associated 
 a)   Name                Peter Cowgill 
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 2.   Reason for the notification 
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 a)   Position            Executive Chairman (Director/PDMR) 
       / status 
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 b)   Initial             Initial notification 
       notification 
       / amendment 
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 3.   Details of the issuer, emission allowance 
       market participant, auction platform, 
       auctioneer or auction monitor 
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 a)   Name                JD Sports Fashion Plc 
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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 in JD Sports 
       of the financial    Fashion Plc 
       instrument, 
       type of 
       instrument          GB00BMNQZP86 
       Identification 
       code 
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 b)   Nature of           Acquisition of Shares 
       the transaction 
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 c)   Price(s)             Price(s)      Volume(s) 
       and volume(s)        GBP4.10 
                             per share    10,000 
                                         ---------- 
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 d)   Aggregated           Price(s)      Volume(s) 
       information          GBP4.10 
                             per share    10,000 
                                         ---------- 
 
 
 e)   Date of             16 October 2018 
       the transaction 
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 f)   Place of            London Stock Exchange XLON 
       the transaction 
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Enquiries:

JD Sports Fashion Plc Tel: [phone]

Peter Cowgill, Executive Chairman

Siobhan Mawdsley, Company Secretary

MHP Communications Tel: [phone]

Andrew Jaques

Giles Robinson

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