Tuesday, 18 June 2024
The Character Group
plc
("Character", the "Company" or the "Group")
Transaction in Own
Shares
and
Completion of the Share
Buyback programme
Character announces that, in
accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced
on 6 February 2024 as extended and increased as announced on 3
April 2024 (the "Programme"), the Company purchased the following
number of its issued ordinary shares of £0.05 each ("Ordinary
Shares") from Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited ("Panmure
Gordon").
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Date of
purchase:
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18 June
2024
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Aggregate
number of Ordinary Shares purchased:
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1,725
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Lowest
price paid per share (GB pence):
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298
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Highest
price paid per share (GB pence):
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298
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Volume
weighted average price paid per share (GB pence):
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298
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The repurchased shares have been
cancelled. Following the purchase of these shares, the Company
holds 2,100,159 shares in treasury and has 18,657,298 shares in
issue (excluding treasury shares). Therefore, the total voting
rights in the Company will be 18,657,298. The figure of 18,657,298
may be used by shareholders as
the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine
if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to
their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance
and Transparency Rules.
In accordance with Article 5(1)(b)
of the UK version of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014, which is part of
UK law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, the
table below contains detailed information of the individual trades
made by Panmure Gordon as part of the Programme.
Aggregate
information:
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Venue
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Volume-weighted average price (pence per share)
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Aggregate
volume
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AIMX
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298
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1,725
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Individual transactions:
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Number of
shares purchased
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Transaction price
(pence per share)
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Time of
transaction
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Venue
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1,725
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298
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08:21:30
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AIMX
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Completion of the Share
Buyback programme
Following the above transaction the
Company has completed the Programme. This brings the total
expended by the Company to date in purchasing its issued Ordinary
Shares since the launch of the Programme on 6 February 2024
(including the associated dealing costs) to £1,999,997.90.
The limit for purchasing Ordinary Shares under the Programme was
£2.0 million and Panmure Gordon has, accordingly, reported to the
Company that it has purchased a total of 708,472 Ordinary Shares on
behalf of the Company since 6 February 2024 and, thereby,
successfully concluded its engagement in relation to the
Programme.
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Enquiries to:
The
Character Group plc
Jon Diver, Joint Managing
Director
Kiran Shah, Joint Managing Director
& Group Finance Director
Office: +44 (0) 208 329
3377
Mobile: +44 (0) 7831 802219
(JD)
Mobile: +44 (0) 7956 278522
(KS)
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Panmure Gordon (Nominated Adviser and Joint
Broker)
Atholl Tweedie /Dougie McLeod,
Investment Banking
Rupert Dearden / Rauf Munir,
Corporate Broking
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7886
2500
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Allenby Capital Limited (Joint
Broker)
Nick Athanas, Corporate
Finance
Amrit Nahal / Tony Quirke, Sales
& Corporate Broking
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3328
5656
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TooleyStreet Communications Limited (Investor and media
relations)
Fiona Tooley
Tel: +44 (0) 7785
703523
Email: fiona@tooleystreet.com
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