Last checked at 26 Feb 2020 15:36
26 February 2020
ASOS Plc
Director/PDMR Shareholding
ASOS Plc ('the Company') announces that Ian Dyson, Non-executive Director, purchased 1,500 ordinary shares of 3.5 pence each in the capital of the Company ('Share(s)') on 25 February 2020 at an average price of £31.64 per Share.
Following this transaction, Ian Dyson holds 1,500 Shares in the Company.
This announcement is made in accordance with Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014.
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | ||
a) | Name | Ian Dyson | |
2 | Reason for the notification | ||
a) | Position/status | Non-executive Director | |
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 Shares of 3.5 pence each
GB0030927254 | |
b) | Nature of the transaction | Purchase of Shares | |
c) | Currency | GBP | |
d) | Price(s) and volume(s) | Price(s) | Volume(s) |
£31.64 | 1,500 | ||
e) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total | N/A single transaction
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f) | Date of the transaction | 25 February 2020 | |
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/Christopher Wood
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 850 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 SameDay Delivery, dispatched from state-of-the-art fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Germany.
ASOS's websites attracted 239.0 million visits during December 2019 (December 2018: 188.4 million) and as at 31 December 2019 it had 21.7 million active customers1 (31 December 2018: 18.9 million), of which 6.7 million were located in the UK and 15.0 million were located in our international territories (31 December 2018: 6.1 million in the UK and 12.8 million internationally).
1Defined as having shopped in the last twelve months as at 31 December