Transaction in Own Shares

DAILY MAIL & GENERAL TRUST PLC - Transaction in Own Shares

PR Newswire

London, December 20

20 December 2017

Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT)

Transaction in own shares

DMGT announces that on 20 December 2017 it transferred 333,413 A Ordinary Non-Voting Shares (A Shares) out of treasury at a price of £6.026 per share to match obligations to provide shares to option holders of its RMS subsidiary who had acquired them as a result of exercising their options under its stock option plan. 

Simultaneous with the transfer out of treasury of these shares, DMGT has acquired from Numis Securities Limited 333,413 A Shares at a price of £6.026. 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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