Transaction in Own Shares

DAILY MAIL & GENERAL TRUST PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

PR Newswire

London, March 16

16 March 2016

Daily Mail and General Trust plc (‘DMGT’)

Transaction in own shares

DMGT (‘the Company’) announces that on 16 March 2016 it transferred 112,623 A Ordinary Non-Voting Shares (‘A Shares’) out of treasury at a price of £6.77 per share to match obligations to provide shares to minority shareholders of its Risk Management Solutions subsidiary who had acquired them as a result of exercising their stock options under its scheme. The share price was based on the volume weighted average for Wednesday 16 March 2016 which was £6.77.

Simultaneous with the transfer out of treasury of these shares, DMGT has acquired from Numis Securities Limited 112,623 A Shares at a price of £6.77. The shares purchased will be held in treasury.

Following these transfers the total number of A Shares held in treasury is 5,000,000 and the total number of A Shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 337,204,470.

Name of contact and telephone number for queries:

Fran Sallas, DMGT Deputy Company Secretary: 020 3615 2904

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