Director's Dealing • Nov 4, 2019
Director's Dealing
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RNS Number : 2048S
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 |
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| 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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