Director share dealings

Eckoh plc ("Eckoh" or the "Company")

Director share dealings

The Company today announces that on 21 August 2013 Nik Philpot, Chief Executive Officer of Eckoh, has exercised the following options over 1,000,000 ordinary shares of 0.25p each in the Company in accordance with the rules of the Eckoh plc share option scheme (1999). The exercise of the options was satisfied by shares previously held in the Eckoh Employee Incentive Trust. Following this transaction Nik Philpot has increased his holding in the Company.

Following the exercise of the options above, the Company was informed on 21 August 2013 that Nik Philpot has sold 825,000 ordinary shares in Eckoh at a price of 23.50 pence per share predominantly in order to cover the cost of exercise and the tax charge that crystallises on completion.

As a result of these transactions, Nik Philpot has increased his beneficial shareholding from 4,379,873 to 4,554,873 ordinary shares, which now represents 2.1% of the Company's total voting rights.

Enquiries:

Eckoh plc

Nik Philpot, Chief Executive Officer Tel: 01442 458 300

Adam Moloney, Group Finance Director

www.eckoh.com

Buchanan

Jeremy Garcia, Gabriella Clinkard Tel: 020 7466 5000

www.buchanan.uk.com 

N+1 Singer

Shaun Dobson, Matthew Thomas Tel: 020 7496 3000

About Eckoh plc

Eckoh plc (AIM: ECK) is the UK's leading provider of multi-channel customer service and secure payment solutions. We are a PCI DSS Level One accredited Service Provider, currently processing over £300 million in card payments annually.

Eckoh's solutions enable payments, transactions and enquiries to be processed without the caller needing to talk to a contact centre agent. This significantly reduces our clients' costs, whilst freeing up their agents to deal with more complex enquiries. Eckoh is the largest provider of such hosted services in the UK.

Our secure and resilient infrastructure has the scalability to handle up to 6,000 calls simultaneously, which means that calls will always be answered no matter how unpredictable the circumstances.

For more information, visit: www.eckoh.com