Last checked at 29 Jan 2020 09:35
29 January 2020
ASOS Plc
Director/PDMR Shareholding
ASOS Plc ('the Company') announces that Nick Beighton, CEO, purchased 1,629 ordinary shares of 3.5 pence each in the capital of the Company ('Share(s)') on 29 January 2020 at an average price of £30.60 per Share.
Following this transaction, Nick Beighton holds 174,128 Shares in the Company.
This announcement is made in accordance with Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014.
1 | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | ||
a) | Name | Nick Beighton | |
2 | Reason for the notification | ||
a) | Position/status | Chief Executive Officer | |
b) | Initial notification / Amendment | Initial notification | |
3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | ||
a) | Name | ASOS Plc | |
b) | Legal Entity Identifier | 213800H8DBB8JSKDW630 | |
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, type of instrument
Identification code | Ordinary Shares of 3.5 pence each
GB0030927254 | |
b) | Nature of the transaction | Purchase of Shares | |
c) | Currency | GBP | |
d) | Price(s) and volume(s) | Price(s) | Volume(s) |
£30.60 | 1,629 | ||
e) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price - Aggregated total | N/A single transaction
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f) | Date of the transaction | 29 January 2020 | |
g) | Place of the transaction | London Stock Exchange, AIM | |
For further information:
ASOS plc Tel: 020 7756 1000
Nick Beighton, Chief Executive
Alison Lygo, Head of Investor Relations
Website: www.asosplc.com/investors
Headland Consultancy Tel: 020 3805 4822
Susanna Voyle/Stephen Malthouse/Lindsay Dunford
JPMorgan Cazenove (Nominated Advisor) Tel: 020 7742 4000
Michael Wentworth-Stanley/Bill Hutchings
Numis Securities Tel: 020 7260 1000
Alex Ham/Luke Bordewich/Tom Ballard
Background note
ASOS is an online retailer for fashion-loving 20-somethings around the world, with a purpose to give its customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be. Through its market-leading app and mobile/desktop web experience, available in ten languages and in over 200 markets, ASOS customers can shop a curated edit of 85,000 products, sourced from 850 of the best global and local third-party brands and its mix of fashion-led in-house labels - ASOS Design, ASOS Edition, ASOS 4505 and Collusion. ASOS aims to give all of its customers a truly frictionless experience, with an ever-greater number of different payment methods and hundreds of local deliveries and returns options, including Next-Day and SameDay Delivery, dispatched from state-of-the-art fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Germany.
ASOS's websites attracted 239.0 million visits during December 2019 (December 2018: 188.4 million) and as at 31 December 2019 it had 21.7 million active customers1 (31 December 2018: 18.9 million), of which 6.7 million were located in the UK and 15.0 million were located in our international territories (31 December 2018: 6.1 million in the UK and 12.8 million internationally).
1Defined as having shopped in the last twelve months as at 31 December