20 December 2017
Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT)
Transaction in own shares
DMGT announces that on 20 December 2017 it transferred 333,413 A Ordinary Non-Voting Shares (A Shares) out of treasury at a price of £6.026 per share to match obligations to provide shares to option holders of its RMS subsidiary who had acquired them as a result of exercising their options under its stock option plan.
Simultaneous with the transfer out of treasury of these shares, DMGT has acquired from Numis Securities Limited 333,413 A Shares at a price of £6.026. The shares purchased will be held in treasury.
Following these transfers the total number of A Shares held in treasury is 4,812,419 and the total number of A Shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 337,392,051.
Name of contact and telephone number for queries:
Fran Sallas, DMGT Company Secretary: +44(0)20 3615 2904
Daily Mail and General Trust plc
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London, W8 5TT
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