22 Mar 2018 17:00
Mail.Ru Group Limited
Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") Shareholding
22 March 2018. Mail.Ru Group Limited (LSE: MAIL, hereinafter referred as the "Company" or the "Group") announces that it was notified that on 21 March 2018 Jan G.C.M. Buné, Independent Director of the Company and PDMR, acquired 2,500 Global Depositary Receipts ("GDRs") representing the Company's ordinary shares admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange (ISIN US5603172082, Common Code: 055222126) under the Company's 2015 Restricted Stock Unit Plan.
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 | Acquisition of 2,500 Regulation S Global Depositary Receipts (ISIN: US5603172082, Common Code: 055222126) under the Company's 2015 Restricted Stock Unit Plan | ||||
c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price | N.A. | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction | 2018-03-21 UTC. | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction | Outside a trading venue. | ||||
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+, December 2017).
In line with the communitainment (communication plus entertainment) 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 company operates three of the major Russian language social networks, VKontakte (VK), Odnoklassniki (OK) and Moi Mir (My World), and Russia's largest online games, including such gaming titles as Warface, Armored Warfare, Skyforge and Perfect World. The сompany's portfolio also includes a leading OpenStreetMap-based offline mobile maps and navigation service MAPS.ME, auto classifieds service Am.ru, instant messaging services ICQ, Agent Mail.Ru and TamTam, a mobile location based marketplace Youla, a ride-sharing service BeepCar and a cross-border marketplace Pandao.
The Company owns 100% of mobile games developer Pixonic, 100% of Delivery Club and ZakaZaka, two largest food delivery companies in Russia, and a controlling stake in GeekBrains, an online education platform for developers. Mail.Ru Group also holds equity stakes in a number of small venture capital investments in various Internet companies in Russia, Ukraine 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.