K3 BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY GROUP PLC

Director's Dealing • Sep 24, 2024

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RNS Number : 4104F

K3 Business Technology Group PLC

24 September 2024

AIM: KBT

24 September 2024

K3 Business Technology Group plc

("K3", "Company" or "Group")

PDMR Announcement

K3, which provides business ‐ critical software solutions focused on fashion and apparel brands, has received notification from Kestrel Partners LLP ("Kestrel") that on 20 September 2024 it acquired, on behalf of its discretionary clients, 38,869 ordinary shares of 25p each ("Shares") in the Company at an average price of £0.7014 per Share.

Mr Scott, a non-executive director of K3, is a partner of, and holds a beneficial interest in Kestrel. Mr Scott is also a shareholder in one of Kestrel's clients ("Kestrel Opportunities") and is therefore deemed to have a beneficial interest in Kestrel Opportunities' entire legal holding in the Company.

Following these transactions, Kestrel Opportunities holds (and consequently Mr Scott is deemed to have a beneficial interest in) 8,631,682 Shares in the Company, and other clients of Kestrel, in which Mr Scott has no beneficial interest, hold 4,350,611 Shares in the Company.

On a combined basis, Kestrel indirectly holds voting rights over 12,982,293 Shares in the Company, which represents 29.02% per cent of the Company's issued share capital.

Kestrel's interest in the Shares in the Company is held through the following nominees:

Holding type	Nominee		No. of shares	% of issued share capital
Indirect	Bank of New York Nominees Ltd		8,631,682	19.29%
Indirect	JIM Nominees Limited		316,376	0.71%
Indirect Indirect	Bank of New York Nominees Ltd Northern Trust Company AVFC		2,684,003 1,350,232	6.06% 2.96%

Further details in respect of the purchase are provided below, in accordance with the EU Market Abuse Regulation (No 596/2014).

For further information contact:

K3 Business Technology Group plc	+44 (0) 161 876 4498
Eric Dodd, CEO
Cavendish Capital Markets Limited	+44 (0) 207 220 0500
Nominated Adviser and Broker
Julian Blunt/Dan Hodkinson (Corporate Finance)
Sunila de Silva/Harriet Ward (Corporate Broking)
KTZ Communications	+44 (0) 20 3178 6378
Katie Tzouliadis/Robert Morton

ANNEX

Template for notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Kestrel Partners LLP ('Kestrel')

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

PCA - Oliver Rupert Andrew Scott (non-executive director of K3 Business Technology Group plc and Partner in Kestrel)

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial

3

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

a)

Name

K3 Business Technology Group plc

b)

LEI

213800QOJ9OF2AV81748

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

25p Ordinary Shares

ISIN: GB00B00P6061

b)

Nature of the transaction

Purchase

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

20 September 2024
Price(s)	Volume(s)
£0.7014	38,869 shares

d)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

Total purchase of 38,869 at an average of £0.7014 per Share

e)

Date of the transaction

20 September 2024

f)

Place of the transaction

London Stock Exchange, AIM Market (XLON)

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