Wednesday, 21 February 2024
The Character Group plc
("Character", the "Company" or the "Group")
Transaction in Own Shares
Character announces that, in accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 6 February 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").
| Date of purchase: | 21 February 2024 |
| Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased: | 23,202 |
| Lowest price paid per share (GB pence): | 260 |
| Highest price paid per share (GB pence): | 260 |
| Volume weighted average price paid per share (GB pence): | 260 |
The repurchased shares have been cancelled. Following the purchase of these shares, the Company holds 2,100,159 shares in treasury and has 19,204,873 shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company will be 19,204,873. The figure of 19,204,873 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:
| Venue | Volume-weighted average price (pence per share) | Aggregate volume |
| AIMX | 260 | 23,202 |
Individual transactions:
| Number of shares purchased | Transaction price | Time of transaction | Venue |
| 23,202 | 260 | 08:13:04 | AIMX |
| 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 / Daphne Zhang, 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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