16 March 2016
Daily Mail and General Trust plc ('DMGT')
Transaction in own shares
DMGT ('the Company') announces that on 16 March 2016 it transferred 112,623 A Ordinary Non-Voting Shares ('A Shares') out of treasury at a price of £6.77 per share to match obligations to provide shares to minority shareholders of its Risk Management Solutions subsidiary who had acquired them as a result of exercising their stock options under its scheme. The share price was based on the volume weighted average for Wednesday 16 March 2016 which was £6.77.
Simultaneous with the transfer out of treasury of these shares, DMGT has acquired from Numis Securities Limited 112,623 A Shares at a price of £6.77. The shares purchased will be held in treasury.
Following these transfers the total number of A Shares held in treasury is 5,000,000 and the total number of A Shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 337,204,470.
Name of contact and telephone number for queries:
Fran Sallas, DMGT Deputy Company Secretary: 020 3615 2904
Daily Mail and General Trust plc
Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street,
London, W8 5TT
http://www.dmgt.com/
Registered in England and Wales No. 184594
