Transaction in Own Shares

DAILY MAIL & GENERAL TRUST PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

PR Newswire

London, January 25

25 January 2018

Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT)

Transaction in own shares

DMGT announces that on 25 January 2018 it transferred 159,589 A Ordinary Non-Voting Shares (A Shares) out of treasury at a price of £6.443 per share to match obligations to provide shares to option holders of its Trepp subsidiary who had acquired them as a result of exercising options under its stock option plan.

Simultaneous with the transfer out of treasury of these shares, DMGT has acquired from Numis Securities Limited 159,589 A Shares at a price of £6.443. The shares purchased will be held in treasury.

Following these transfers the total number of A Shares held in treasury is 4,812,419 and the total number of A Shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 337,392,051.

Name of contact and telephone number for queries:

Fran Sallas, DMGT Company Secretary: +44(0)20 3615 2904

Daily Mail and General Trust plc

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London, W8 5TT

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