Last checked at 1 May 2018 11:15
ASOS Plc
("the Company")
Director/PDMR Shareholding
ASOS Plc ("the Company") announces that on 27 April 2018 Helen Ashton, then Executive Director of the Company, transferred 5,220 Ordinary Shares from the Company's vested share account to a personal share dealing account, and sold 1 Ordinary Share in the Company to cover the fees relating to this transaction.
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | ||
a) | Name | Helen Ashton | |
2 | Reason for the notification | ||
a) | Position/status | PDMR - previous Chief Financial 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 | Transfer of ordinary shares from vested share account to personal share-dealing account.
| |
c) | Currency | GBP | |
d) | Price(s) and volume(s) | Price(s) | Volume(s) |
Nil | 5,220 | ||
e) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume
- Price
- Aggregated total
|
N/A single transaction
| |
f) | Date of the transaction | 27 April 2018 | |
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 | Automatic sale of ordinary shares to satisfy transfer costs | |
c) | Currency | GBP | |
d) | Price(s) and volume(s) | Price(s) | Volume(s) |
£60.04 | 1 | ||
e) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume
- Price
- Aggregated total |
N/A single transaction
| |
f) | Date of the transaction | 27 April 2018 | |
g) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange, AIM | |
For further information:
ASOS Plc Nick Beighton, Chief Executive OfficerGreg Feehely, Director of Investor RelationsWebsite: www.asosplc.com/investors
| Tel: 020 7756 1000 |
Instinctif Partners Matthew Smallwood / Guy Scarborough
| Tel: 020 7457 2020 |
JPMorgan Cazenove Michael Wentworth-Stanley / Caroline Thomlinson/ Bill Hutchings
| Tel: 020 7742 4000 |
Numis Securities Alex Ham / Luke Bordewich | Tel: 020 7260 1000 |
Background note
ASOS is a global fashion destination for 20-somethings, selling cutting-edge fashion and offering a wide variety of fashion-related content, making ASOS.com the hub of a thriving fashion community. ASOS sells over 85,000 branded and own-label products through localised mobile and web experiences, delivering from fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Europe to almost every country in the world.
ASOS tailors the mix of own-label, global and local brands sold through each of eight local language websites: UK, US, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia and Russia.
ASOS's websites attracted 135.7m visits during August 2017 (August 2016: 117.5m) and as at 31 August 2017 had 15.4m active customers1 (31 August 2016: 12.4m), of which 5.2m were located in the UK and 10.2m were located in international territories (31 August 2016: 4.7m in the UK and 7.7m internationally).
1 Defined as having shopped in the last twelve months as at 31 August 2017