21 Mar 2019 17:00
Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") Shareholding
21 March 2019. Mail.Ru Group Limited (LSE: MAIL, hereinafter referred as the "Company" or the "Group") announces that it was notified that on 19 March 2019 Jan G.C.M. Buné, Independent Director of the Company and PDMR, sold 1,000 Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") representing the Company's ordinary shares admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange (ISIN US5603172082, Common Code: 055222126).
The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail.
Notification and public disclosure of a transaction by PDMR:
1. | Details of PDMR/PCA | |||||
a) | Name | Jan G.C.M. Buné. | ||||
b) | Position / status | Independent Director. | ||||
c) | Initial notification / amendment | Initial notification. | ||||
2. | 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 | Global Depositary Receipts representing the Company's ordinary shares. | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction | Sale of 1,000 Regulation S Global Depositary Receipts (ISIN: US5603172082, Common Code: 055222126) | ||||
c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price |
1,000 $25.00 | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 2019-03-19 UTC. | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | London IOB | ||||
For Further Information Please Contact:
Investors
Matthew Hammond
Phone: +971 505 56 1315
E-mail: hammond@corp.mail.ru
Olga Zyryaeva
Phone: +7 909 974 5996
E-mail: o.zyryaeva@corp.mail.ru
About Mail.Ru Group
Mail.Ru Group, international brand My.com (MAIL.IL, listed since November 5, 2010) is the largest internet business in Russia in terms of total daily audience (Mediascope Web Index, Russia, population aged 12-64 in the cities 100,000+, October 2018).
In line with the communitainment strategy, the Company is developing an integrated communications and entertainment platform. The Company owns Russia's leading email service and one of Russia's largest internet portals, Mail.Ru; the two largest Russian language social networks, VKontakte (VK) and Odnoklassniki (OK); Russia's largest MMO games, such as Warface, Skyforge and Perfect World, and global mobile games, such as War Robots and Hustle Castle; and instant messaging services ICQ, Agent Mail.Ru and TamTam.
The Company operates two largest food delivery businesses in Russia, Delivery Club and ZakaZaka, and a location-based mobile marketplace Youla.
The Company owns Pixonic, a mobile games developer, and ESforce, one of the largest eSports businesses globally. The Company's portfolio also includes a leading OpenStreetMap-based offline mobile maps and navigation service MAPS.ME and a controlling stake in GeekBrains, an online education platform for developers. In addition, Mail.Ru Group holds equity stakes in a number of small venture capital investments in various Internet companies in Russia, other CIS countries and Israel.
Mail.Ru Group is actively involved in IT education in Russia and has a number of education centers in partnership with major Russian universities. Mail.Ru Group also holds Russia's most important programming contests.