DOTDIGITAL GROUP PLC — Director's Dealing 2015

Nov 23, 2015

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RNS Number : 6475G

dotDigital Group plc

23 November 2015

23 NOVEMBER 2015

dotdigital Group plc

("dotdigital" or the "Company")

Director/PDMR Shareholdings

dotdigital Group Plc (AIM:DOTD), the leading provider of intuitive Software as a Service ("SaaS") and managed services to digital marketing professionals, was notified on 20 November 2015 that Simon Bird, Executive Director of the Company, and Peter Simmonds, non-Executive Director of the Company, disposed of 13,717,671 and 2,500,000 ordinary shares of 0.5 pence each in the capital the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), respectively, at a price of 42.88 pence per Ordinary Share, in order to satisfy strong demand from institutional investors.

In addition, on 20 November 2015, Milan Patel, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, exercised options at 18.25 pence per share over 1,027,397 Ordinary Shares (the "New Shares"). Furthermore, the Company was notified on 20 November 2015 that, in part to settle the tax liability arising on the option exercise, Milan Patel, on that date, disposed of 500,000 Ordinary Shares at a price of 42.88 pence per Ordinary Share.

Application has been made for the New Shares, which rank pari passu in all respects with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares, to be admitted to trading on AIM which is expected to occur on or about 26 November 2015.

Following this issue, the Company's issued share capital consists of 292,626,859 Ordinary Shares of which a total of 660,000 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights in the Company is 291,966,859.

The above figure of 291,966,859 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Following the above transactions, Simon Bird, Peter Simmonds and Milan Patel are interested in Ordinary Shares as follows:

Director	Interest in Ordinary Shares	Percentage of total voting rights in the Company
Simon Bird	17,558,996	6.01%
Peter Simmonds	4,591,470	1.57%
Milan Patel	1,975,927	0.68%

For further enquiries please contact:

dotdigital Group Plc Simone Barratt , CEO Milan Patel, CFO	Tel: 020 8662 2777
Financial PR and Investor Relations Lisa Baderoon Lisa.Baderoon@dotmailer.com	Tel: 07721 413 496
N+1 Singer (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) Shaun Dobson, Head of Corporate Finance Alex Wright, Corporate Finance	Tel: 020 7496 3000
finnCap (Joint Broker) Stuart Andrews, Corporate Finance	Tel: 020 7220 0500

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