27th Jul 2018 08:30
27 July 2018
Blue Prism Group plc
("Blue Prism" or the "Group")
DIRECTOR / PDMR SHAREHOLDING
Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM), a global leader in Robotic Process Automation ("RPA"), announces that the Group's CEO, Alastair Bathgate, has sold 410,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Group ("Ordinary Shares"), representing approximately 0.6 per cent of the issued share capital of Blue Prism at a price of 1844 pence per share.
Following this sale, Alastair Bathgate retains an interest in 4,653,224 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 7.0 per cent of Blue Prism's issued share capital.
The Group has been advised that Alastair Bathgate has no current intention to make any further sales of Ordinary Shares.
1. | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | ||
(a) | Name | Alastair Bathgate | |
2. | Reason for the notification | ||
(a) | Position/status | Chief Executive Officer | |
(b) | Initial notification/ Amendment | Initial notification | |
3. | Details of the issuer | ||
(a) | Name | BLUE PRISM GROUP PLC | |
(b) | LEI | 2138006DQE9FNUW8KO83 | |
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 | Ordinary shares of £0.01 each | |
(b) | Identification code of the Financial Instrument | GB00BYQ0HV16 | |
(c) | Nature of the transaction | Sale of shares
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(d) | Price(s) and volume(s) | Price(s) | Volume(s) |
1844p | 410,000 | ||
(e) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price |
410,000 shares
1844p per share | |
(f) | Date of the transaction | 26 July 2018 | |
(g) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange | |
For further information please contact:
Blue Prism Group plc Alastair Bathgate, Chief Executive Officer Ijoma Maluza, Chief Financial Officer | via FTI Consulting |
Investec Bank plc Andrew Pinder Carlton Nelson Sebastian Lawrence | Tel: +44 (0)20 7597 5970 |
FTI Consulting Matt Dixon Dwight Burden | Tel: +44 (0)20 3727 1000 |
About Blue Prism
Blue Prism Group plc ("Blue Prism" or the "Group"), is a UK-headquartered global software company.
As the pioneer, innovator and a market leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Blue Prism delivers the world's most successful Digital Workforce. The company's Digital Workers (software robots) provide business leaders with new operational capacity and intelligent skills to automate repetitive administrative tasks, while meeting the requirements of the most demanding IT environments, where security, compliance and scalability are paramount.
Blue Prism provides a scalable and robust execution platform for best-of-breed AI and cognitive technologies and has emerged as the trusted and secure RPA platform of choice. Billions of transactions and hundreds of millions of hours of work are executed on Blue Prism robots from renowned companies including Aegon, BNY Mellon, Coca-Cola, Commerzbank, IBM, ING, Maersk, Nokia, Nordea, Procter & Gamble, Raiffeisen Bank, Siemens, Westpac and Zurich. As at 30 April 2018, Blue Prism had 271 employees based out of offices in Newton le Willows and London (UK), Sydney (Australia), Tokyo (Japan), Bangalore (India), Austin, Miami, Chicago, New York and San Francisco (US), Munich (Germany), Paris (France) and Singapore
For more information visit www.blueprism.com and follow the Group on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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