Pets At Home Group Plc Director/PDMR Shareholding (6987I)

TIDMPETS

RNS Number : 6987I

Pets At Home Group Plc

21 June 2017

21(st) June 2017

Pets at Home Group Plc

(the 'Company')

Notifications of transactions by Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial

Responsibilities and Person Closely Associated

The Company makes the following announcement regarding one of its Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR") exercising share options over ordinary shares of GBP0.01 ("Shares") and a subsequent sale of shares.

The notification of dealing form for the PDMR can be found below.

 
 1    Details of the director/person discharging managerial 
       responsibilities/person closely associated 
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 a)   Name                             Peter Pritchard 
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 2    Reason for the notification 
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 a)   Position/status                  Person Discharging Managerial 
                                        Responsibility 
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 b)   Initial notification/Amendment   Initial notification 
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 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market 
       participant, auction platform, auctioneer or 
       auction monitor 
---  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Name                             Pets at Home Group Plc 
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 b)   LEI                              N/A 
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 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 
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 a)   Description of                   Ordinary shares of 1 pence each 
       the financial                    in Pets at Home Group Plc 
       instrument, type                 ISIN GB00BJ62K685 
       of instrument 
       Identification 
       code 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 b)   Nature of the                    Peter Pritchard has exercised 
       Transaction                      options over Ordinary Shares 
                                        in the Company and subsequently 
                                        sold such number of shares required 
                                        to cover tax, national insurance 
                                        and the transaction fee as a 
                                        result of such exercise 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)           Price(s)             Volume(s) 
---  -------------------------------  -------------------  --------------------------------------- 
                                       161.5999             21,287 options 
                                                             exercised 
                                        161.5999             10,242 ordinary 
                                                              shares sold 
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 d)        Aggregated information      Price              Aggregated           Aggregate 
                                                           volume               Total 
             *    Aggregated volume 
 
 
 
             *    Price 
---  -------------------------------  -----------------  -------------------  -------------------- 
                                       161.5999p          21,287 options       GBP34,399.77 
                                        per Share         exercised 
                                        161.5999          10,242 ordinary       GBP16,551 
                                        per Share         shares sold 
---  -------------------------------  -----------------  -------------------  -------------------- 
 e)   Date of Transaction              20(th) June 2017 
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 f)   Place of Transaction             London Stock Exchange (XLON) 
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This Notification is made in accordance with the requirements of Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.

For further information and for the persons responsible for arranging the release of this announcement, please contact:

Louise Stonier

Chief People and Legal Officer and Company Secretary

Pets at Home Group Plc

Epsom Avenue

Stanley Green Trading Estate

Handforth

Cheshire

SK9 3RN

Tel: 0161 486 3590

Email: companysecretary@petsathome.co.uk