27 Feb 2015 13:41

TUNGSTEN CORPORATION PLC
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("Tungsten" or the "Company")
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NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN, INTO OR FROM THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN NOR ANY JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE RELEVANT LAWS OF SUCH JURISDICTION
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For Immediate Release
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27 February 2015
Purchase of Shares by a Director
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Tungsten Corporation plc (the "Company") has been notified that Edmund Truell, the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, (through a subsidiary of Disruptive Capital Investments Limited (formerly Rockhopper Investments Limited)) has today acquired 500,000 ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 146.78p pence per share.
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Following this acquisition, Mr Truell is interested in 16,432,426* ordinary shares in the Company representing approximately 15.9 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital.
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* This is the total number of Mr Truell's direct and Indirect holdings. The indirect holdings are held via Disruptive Capital Investments Limited, the family vehicle of Mr Truell.
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Enquiries:
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Tungsten Corporation plc.
Edmund Truell, Chief Executive Officer +44 20 3435 5680
Juliana Wheeler, Head of Global Communications +44 20 7280 7973
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Charles Stanley Securities
(Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)
Marc Milmo/Dugald Carlean +44 20 7149 6000
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Canaccord Genuity Limited
(Joint Broker)
Simon Bridges/Peter Stewart/Cameron Duncan +44 20 7523 8000
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Equus Group (Communications)
Piers Hooper / Sam Barton +44 20 7223 1100
About Tungsten Corporation plc.
Tungsten Corporation (LSE: TUNG) accelerates global trade by enabling customers to streamline invoice processing, improve cash-flow management and make better buying decisions from their detailed spend data.
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Buyer organisations that join Tungsten Network, the world's largest compliant electronic invoice network, can reduce their invoice-processing costs by 60%. Suppliers benefit from efficiencies, greater visibility of their invoice status and peace of mind. Tungsten offers supply chain financing through Tungsten Bank; and helps buying organisations profit by applying real-time spend analytics to its vast repository of line-level invoice data.
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Tungsten serves 56% of the Fortune 500 and 67% of the FTSE 100 by connecting the world's largest companies and government agencies to their thousands of suppliers around the globe. It enables suppliers to submit tax compliant e-Invoices in 47 countries, and last year processed transactions worth over $187bn for organisations such as Alliance Data, Aviva, Cargill, Deutsche Lufthansa, General Motors, GlaxoSmithKline, Henkel, IBM, Kellogg's, and the US Federal Government.
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Tungsten Corporation joined forces with OB10 in 2013 to create the world's largest electronic trading network; and acquired DocuSphere in September 2014, a provider of accounts payable automation solutions
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Contact: James Culverhouse, Equus, +44 020 7223 1100, james.culverhouse@equusgroup.co.uk
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