JD Sports Fashion Plc Director/PDMR Shareholding (1557P)

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RNS Number : 1557P

JD Sports Fashion Plc

05 June 2020

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 5 June 2020 by Peter Cowgill (the Company's Executive Chairman) that he had disposed of 1,985,000 ordinary shares of 0.25 pence each in the Company on 5 June 2020 at an average price of 671.77 pence per ordinary share.

Following this disposal, Peter Cowgill has a total interest in 6,480,260 shares, representing 0.67% 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           Disposal of Shares 
       the transaction 
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 c)   Price(s)             Price(s)      Volume(s) 
       and volume(s)        671.77p 
                             per share    1,985,000 
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 d)   Aggregated           Price(s)      Volume(s) 
       information          671.77p 
                             per share    1,985,000 
                                         ---------- 
 
 
 e)   Date of             5 June 2020 
       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

Neil Greenhalgh, Chief Financial Officer

Siobhan Mawdsley, Company Secretary

MHP Communications Tel: [phone]

Andrew Jaques

Giles Robinson

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