Sports Direct International Plc Notification Of Transfer Of Shares Out Of Treasury (8016O)

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RNS Number : 8016O

Sports Direct International Plc

23 August 2017

SPORTS DIRECT INTERNATIONAL PLC

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSFER OF SHARES OUT OF TREASURY

Sports Direct International plc (the "Company") wishes to announce that on 23 August 2017, it transferred for nil consideration 12,782,512 ordinary shares of the Company of 10 pence each held by the Company in treasury (the "Treasury Shares") to the Sports Direct Employee Benefit Trust which will be used to satisfy awards held by participants under the Company's 2011 Bonus Share Scheme and the Executive Bonus Share Scheme.

As a consequence of that transfer, the Company now holds 98,350,831 Treasury Shares and its issued share capital (excluding Treasury Shares) consists of 542,251,538 ordinary shares.

The total voting rights figure (542,251,538) may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

This disclosure is made pursuant to the Financial Conduct Authority's Listing Rule 12.6.4 R.

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 Sports Direct International 
  plc                            T. 0344 245 9200 
  Cameron Olsen, Company         E. investor.relations@sportsdirect.com 
  Secretary 
 KBA PR 
  Keith Bishop                   T. 0207 734 9995 
                                 E. sd@kbapr.com

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