19 December 2018

Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT)

Transaction in own shares

DMGT announces that on 19 December 2018 it transferred 424,680 A Ordinary Non-Voting Shares (A Shares) out of treasury at a price of £5.81 per share to match obligations to provide shares to option holders of its RMS subsidiary who had acquired them as a result of exercising their options under its stock option plan. 

Simultaneous with the transfer out of treasury of these shares, DMGT has acquired from Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited 424,680 A Shares at a price of £5.81.  The shares purchased will be held in treasury.

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

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