5 December 2018

Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT)

Transaction in own shares

DMGT announces that on 4 December 2018 it transferred 110,464 A Ordinary Non-Voting Shares (A Shares) out of treasury at a price of £6.21 per share to match obligations to provide shares to an option holder who had acquired them as a result of exercising options under its Executive Bonus Scheme. 

Following these transfers the total number of A Shares held in treasury is 4,701,955 and the total number of A Shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 337,502,515.

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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London, W8 5TT

www.dmgt.com

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