S4 Capital PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (7541Y)

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RNS Number : 7541Y

S4 Capital PLC

17 May 2021

17 May 2021

S(4) CAPITAL PLC

("S(4) Capital" or the "Company")

Notification of a transaction by a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR")

The Company received notification on 14 May 2021 that Scott Spirit, a PDMR, had bought 3,886 ordinary shares of GBP0.25 each at a price of GBP5.09 each (for an aggregate price of GBP19,779.74).

Following this purchase, Scott Spirit holds 244,725 ordinary shares in the Company, representing approximately 0.045% of the entire issued share capital of the Company.

The notification below is made in accordance with the requirements of MAR.

 
 a)    Name                     Scott Spirit 
 2.    Reason for the Notification 
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 a)    Position/status          Executive director 
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 b)    Initial notification/    Initial 
        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                     S(4) Capital plc 
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 b)    LEI                      LEI: 21380068SP9V65KPQN68 
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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 25 
        of the financial         pence each 
        instrument, 
        type of instrument 
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       Identification           GB00BFZZM640 
        code 
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 b)    Nature of the            Share purchase 
        transaction 
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 c)    Price(s) and             Price                  Volume 
        volume(s) 
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   GBP5.09                                             3,886 
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 d)    Aggregated               Aggregate    Aggregate      Aggregate 
        information              Price        Volume         total 
        Aggregated 
        volume 
      -----------------------  -----------  -------------  -------------- 
   GBP5.09      3,886                                       GBP 19,779.74 
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 e)    Date of the              14 May 2021 
        transaction 
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 f)    Place of the             London Stock Exchange 
        transaction              (XLON) 
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Enquiries:

   S4 Capital plc                                        Tel: [phone] 

Sir Martin Sorrell (Executive Chairman)

   Powerscourt                                         Tel: [phone] 

(PR Adviser to S4 Capital plc)

 
  Elly Williamson 
  Jack Shelley 
 

About S(4) Capital

S4 Capital plc (SFOR.L) is the tech-led, new age/new era digital advertising and marketing services company, established by Sir Martin Sorrell in May 2018.

Its strategy is to build a purely digital advertising and marketing services business for global, multinational, regional, local clients and millennial-driven influencer brands. This will be achieved initially by integrating leading businesses in two practice areas: Data & digital media and Content, along with an emphasis on "faster, better, cheaper" executions in an always-on consumer-led environment, with a unitary structure.

Digital is by far the fastest-growing segment of the advertising market. S4Capital estimates that in 2020 digital accounted for over 50% (for the first time) or $290 billion of total global advertising spend of $525 billion (excluding over $500 billion of trade promotion marketing, the primary target of the Amazon advertising platform), and projects that by 2022 this share will grow to approximately 60% and by 2024 to approximately 66%, accelerated by the impact of covid-19.

S4Capital combined with MediaMonks, the leading AdAge A-listed creative digital content production company led by Victor Knaap and Wesley ter Haar, in July 2018 and with MightyHive, the market-leading digital media solutions provider for future thinking marketers and agencies, led by Peter Kim and Christopher S. Martin, in December 2018.

In April 2019, MightyHive combined with ProgMedia to expand operations into Latin America and MediaMonks acquired film studio Caramel Pictures to expand content studio capabilities. In June 2019, MediaMonks announced a planned combination with Australia-based BizTech, a leading marketing transformation and customer experience company. In August 2019, MediaMonks combined with Amsterdam-based digital influencer marketing agency IMA. In October 2019, MediaMonks combined with Firewood Marketing, the largest digital marketing agency based in Silicon Valley, that was recently ranked, along with MediaMonks and Circus (see below), as one of the fastest growing agencies by Adweek, and MightyHive combined with award-winning UK-based digital analytics, biddable media and data science company ConversionWorks and South Korea-based data and analytics consultancy MightyHive Korea. In November 2019, MediaMonks announced its combination with Delhi-based content creation and production company WhiteBalance (completed in August 2020 - the delay due to necessary merger clearance procedures) and then with fully integrated digital agency Circus Marketing in January 2020 (completed in March 2020).

In May 2020, MightyHive announced a combination with Digodat, one of the leading Latin American data and analytics consultancies, and in June 2020, MightyHive announced its combination with Lens10, a leading Australian digital strategy and analytics consultancy. In July 2020, MightyHive announced a combination with Orca Pacific, a market leading full-service Amazon agency and boutique consultancy firm based in Seattle. In August 2020, MightyHive announced a combination with London-based Brightblue, an econometric and media optimisation consultancy. In September 2020, MediaMonks announced its combination with Dare.Win, expanding its geographical presence to France. In January 2021, MediaMonks announced its combination with integrated creative, technology and media agency Decoded Advertising, Shanghai based creative agency TOMORROW and Stuttgart based automotive specialist STAUD STUDIOS. MightyHive also announced its combination with integrated digital performance marketing agency Metric Theory. In February 2021, MightyHive acquired the assets of Datalicious Australia, a leading Google Marketing Platform, Google Cloud and Google Analytics partner in Asia Pacific. In March 2021, MediaMonks announced it had entered into a conditional agreement in relation to a combination of MediaMonks with Toronto-based design and experience agency, Jam3. In May 2021, MightyHive announced it had entered into a conditional agreement in relation to a combination of MightyHive with the leading digital performance agency in Brazil, Raccoon Group.

On 16 July 2020, S4Capital announced the successful placing of 36,766,642 new ordinary shares at a price of 315p raising approximately GBP116 million gross proceeds which will be used for further expansion and combination purposes.

Victor Knaap, Wesley ter Haar, Pete Kim, Christopher Martin, Peter Rademaker and Scott Spirit all joined the S4Capital Board as Directors. The S4Capital Board also includes Rupert Faure Walker, Paul Roy, Daniel Pinto, Sue Prevezer, Elizabeth Buchanan, Naoko Okumoto, Margaret Ma Connolly and Miles Young.

The Company now has around 5,000 people in 31 countries across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific and a current market capitalisation of approximately GBP2.8 billion (c.$4 billion), and would rank around the FTSE 150. It achieved Unicorn status in a little over one year, unique in the advertising and marketing services industry.

Sir Martin was CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a GBP1 million "shell" company in 1985 into the world's largest advertising and marketing services company with a market capitalisation of over GBP16 billion on the day he left. Today its market capitalisation is GBP11.6 billion. Prior to that Sir Martin was Group Financial Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Company Plc for nine years.

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