REG - Vianet Group PLC - Director/PDMR Shareholding

VianetAnnouncement

06/07/2018 08:40

RNS Number : 8396T
Vianet Group PLC
06 July 2018
 


6 July 2018
 
Vianet Group
(the "Company")
Director/PDMR Shareholding
 
 
The Company announces that pursuant to terms of Vianet's LTIP, as announced on 22 December 2015, the following Directors and PDMRs have qualified under the Plan rules for an award, the net proceeds of which have been used to purchase in aggregate, a total of 225,743 Ordinary Shares (the "Share Awards") at a price of 120.0p in the Company as follows:
 
 



Name (Director/PDMR)


No. of Share Awards


Total number of Ordinary Shares held post Share Award


% of issued ordinary share capital.




Stewart Darling


125,743


188,987


0.67




Mark Foster


100,000


328,000


1.16



 
The Share Awards are being satisfied by the transfer of Shares from the Company's EBT. Following the transfer of Shares the EBT holds 230,107 ordinary shares representing 0.81% of the Company's issued share capital. As at 6 July 2018, the Company had 28,282,414 Ordinary Shares in issue.
 
The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the Market Abuse Regulation, provide further details in relation to Share Awards to the Company's Directors and PDMRs.



1


Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated




a)


Name


1.    Stewart Darling
2.    Mark Foster




2


Reason for the notification




a)


Position/status


1.    Chief Executive Officer/Director
2.    Chief Financial Officer/Director




b)


Initial notification / amendment


Initial




3
 


Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor




a)


Name


VIANET GROUP PLC




b)


LEI


2138007KAM1HB8E7E134




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




a)
 


Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code


Ordinary Shares of 10p each
 
ISIN: GB00B13YVN56




b)
 


Nature of the transaction
 


Share Awards
 




c)
 


Price(s) and volume(s)
 
 


 



Price(s)


Volume(s)




1.     120p per share
2.     120p per share
120.0p per share


125,743
100,000








d)


Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price


 
N/A - single transaction




e)


Date of the transaction


6 July 2018




f)


Place of the transaction


Outside of a trading venue



 
For further information, please contact:



VIANET GROUP PLC








James Dickson - Chairman
Mark Foster - CFO
 


T: +44 (0)1642 358 800




Cenkos Securities (Nominated Adviser & Broker)








Stephen Keys / Camilla Hume
 


+44 (0) 20 7397 8900



 




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