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ASOS PLC - Director/PDMR Shareholding

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ASOS PLC
04 November 2019
 

4 November 2019

 

ASOS Plc

(the "Company")

 

Director/PDMR Shareholding

 

Following vesting of the ASOS Plc Long-Term Incentive Scheme (the "ALTIS"), measured over the performance period 1 September 2016 - 31 August 2019, the Company announces the following transactions in accordance with Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.  Further to the initial notification of this ALTIS award on 16 December 2016, the vesting is over conditional shares at nil cost, not options.

 

After these transactions, Nick Beighton, Chief Executive Officer, has an interest in 172,499 ordinary ASOS Plc shares. 

 

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

a)

Name

 Nick Beighton

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

 PDMR - Chief Executive Officer

b)

Initial notification / Amendment

 Initial notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

 ASOS Plc

b)

Legal Entity Identifier

 213800H8DBB8JSKDW630

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

a)

Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

 

Identification code

Ordinary 3.5p shares.

 

 

 

GB0030927254

b)

Nature of the transaction

Acquisition of ordinary shares, following vesting under the ASOS ALTIS award made on 16 December 2016, of conditional shares at nil cost, measured over the period 1 September 2016 - 31 August 2019.

 

c)

Currency

GBP

d)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

Nil

 5,736


e)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

 

- Price

 

- Aggregated total

N/A single transaction  

 

 

f)

Date of the transaction

 31 October 2019

g)

Place of the transaction

London Stock Exchange, AIM

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

a)

Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

 

Identification code

Ordinary shares of 3.5 pence each

 

 

 

GB0030927254

b)

Nature of the transaction

Sale of sufficient ordinary shares to meet tax and national insurance liabilities as a condition of the ALTIS vesting

c)

Currency

GBP

d)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

 £34.5875

 3,140


e)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

 

- Price

 

- Aggregated total

 

 

3,140

 

£34.5875

 

£108,604.75

 

f)

Date of the transaction

 31 October 2019

g)

Place of the transaction

London Stock Exchange, AIM

 

For further information:

 

ASOS plc                                                                                  Tel: 020 7756 1000

Nick Beighton, Chief Executive

Alison Lygo, Head of Investor Relations

Website: www.asosplc.com/investors

 

Headland Consultancy                                                            Tel: 020 3805 4822

Susanna Voyle/Stephen Malthouse/Lindsay Dunford                     

 

JPMorgan Cazenove (Nominated Advisor)                           Tel: 020 7742 4000

Michael Wentworth-Stanley/Bill Hutchings

 

Numis Securities                                                                     Tel: 020 7260 1000

Alex Ham/Luke Bordewich/Tom Ballard                                      

 

Background note

ASOS is an online retailer for fashion-loving 20-somethings around the world, with a purpose to give its customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be. Through its market-leading app and mobile/desktop web experience, available in ten languages and in over 200 markets, ASOS customers can shop a curated edit of 85,000 products, sourced from 800 of the best global and local third-party brands and its mix of fashion-led in-house labels - ASOS Design, ASOS Edition, ASOS 4505 and Collusion. ASOS aims to give all of its customers a truly frictionless experience, with an ever-greater number of different payment methods and hundreds of local deliveries and returns options, including Next-Day and Same-Day Delivery, dispatched from state-of-the-art fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Germany.

ASOS's websites attracted 187.4m visits during August 2019 (August 2018: 157.2m) and as at 31 August 2019 had 20.3m active customers1 (31 August 2018: 18.4m), of which 6.4m were located in the UK and 13.9m were located in international territories (31 August 2018: 6.0m in the UK and 12.4m internationally).

 

1 Defined as having shopped in the last twelve months as at 31 August

 

 

 

 


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