TIDMDOTD

RNS Number : 8578P

dotDigital Group plc

22 November 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 NOVEMBER 2016

dotdigital Group plc

("dotdigital" or the "Company")

Liontrust Investment Partners Increases Shareholding to 17.62%

dotdigital Group Plc (AIM:DOTD), the leading provider of intuitive Software as a Service and managed services to digital marketing professionals, announces that it has received a TR1 from Liontrust Investment Partners LLP ("Liontrust"), a longstanding shareholder, confirming that it has again increased its shareholding in dotdigital to 51,966,234 Ordinary Shares which takes Liontrust's current position to 17.62%.

Full disclosure of the TR1 is shown below:

 
 1. Identity of the issuer or                                      DOTDIGITAL GROUP PLC 
  the underlying issuer 
  of existing shares to which 
  voting rights are 
  attached: (ii) 
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 2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate 
  box or boxes): 
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 An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                                 X 
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 An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial 
  instruments which may result in the acquisition 
  of shares already issued to which voting rights 
  are attached 
------------------------------------------------------------  ------------------------------ 
 An acquisition or disposal of instruments with 
  similar economic effect to qualifying financial 
  instruments 
------------------------------------------------------------  ------------------------------ 
 An event changing the breakdown of voting rights 
------------------------------------------------------------  ------------------------------ 
 Other (please 
  specify): 
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 3. Full name of person(s)                                    LIONTRUST INVESTMENT PARTNERS 
  subject to the                                                            LLP 
  notification obligation: 
  (iii) 
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 4. Full name of shareholder(s)                                            N/A 
  (if different from 3.):(iv) 
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 5. Date of the transaction                                       18/11/2016, 21/11/2016 
  and date on 
  which the threshold is 
  crossed or 
  reached: (v) 
-----------------------------------------------------------  ------------------------------- 
 6. Date on which issuer                                                22/11/2016 
  notified: 
-----------------------------------------------------------  ------------------------------- 
 7. Threshold(s) that is/are 
  crossed or 
  reached: (vi, vii)                                                 14%,15%,16%,17% 
-----------------------------------------------------------  ------------------------------- 
 
 
 
 8. Notified details: 
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 A: Voting rights attached to shares (viii, ix) 
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 Class/type      Situation previous                Resulting situation after the 
  of              to the triggering                 triggering transaction 
  shares          transaction 
 
  if possible 
  using 
  the ISIN 
  CODE 
--------------  --------------------------------  -------------------------------------------------------------------- 
                 Number           Number           Number         Number of                   % of voting 
                  of               of               of shares      voting                      rights (x) 
                  Shares           Voting                          rights 
                                   Rights 
--------------  ---------------  ---------------  -------------  --------------------------  ------------------------- 
                                                   Direct         Direct         Indirect       Direct      Indirect 
                                                                   (xi)           (xii) 
--------------      -----------    -----------    -------------  -------------  -----------  ------------  ----------- 
 
  GB00B3W40C23   38,595,638       38,595,638       51,966,234     51,966,234        N/A         17.62%         N/A 
                ---------------  ---------------  -------------  -------------  -----------  ------------  ----------- 
 
 
 B: Qualifying Financial Instruments 
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 Resulting situation after the triggering transaction 
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 Type of financial   Expiration     Exercise/                       Number of voting              % of voting 
  instrument          date           Conversion                      rights that                   rights 
                      (xiii)         Period (xiv)                    may be 
                                                                     acquired if 
                                                                     the 
                                                                     instrument 
                                                                     is 
                                                                     exercised/ 
                                                                     converted. 
------------------  -------------  ------------------------------  ----------------------------  --------------------- 
        N/A              N/A                     N/A                            N/A                       N/A 
------------------  -------------  ------------------------------  ----------------------------  --------------------- 
 
 C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect 
  to Qualifying Financial Instruments (xv, xvi) 
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 Resulting situation after the triggering transaction 
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 Type of           Exercise       Expiration     Exercise/        Number of voting              % of voting 
 financial          price         date           Conversion        rights instrument             rights (xix, 
 instrument                       (xvii)         period            refers to                     xx) 
                                                 (xviii) 
----------------  -------------  -------------  ---------------  ----------------------------  ----------------------- 
       N/A             N/A            N/A             N/A                     N/A               Nominal       Delta 
----------------  -------------  -------------  ---------------  ----------------------------  ------------  --------- 
                                                                                                    N/A         N/A 
--------------      -----------    -----------      -----------    -----------  -----------    ------------  --------- 
 
 Total (A+B+C) 
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 Number of voting rights                             Percentage of voting rights 
--------------------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------------ 
                    51,966,234                                                    17.62% 
--------------------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 
 
 
 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the 
  voting rights and/or the 
  financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: 
  (xxi) 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 
                                              N/A 
 
 Proxy Voting: 
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 10. Name of the proxy holder:                                           N/A 
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 11. Number of voting rights proxy                                       N/A 
  holder will cease 
  to hold: 
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 12. Date on which proxy holder will                                     N/A 
  cease to hold 
  voting rights: 
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  13. Additional information:                              The voting rights % was 
                                                           calculated using 294,913,485 
                                                           as the shares in issue figure, 
                                                           as stated in the RNS announcement 
                                                           dated 16/11/2016, effective 
                                                           22/11/2016. 
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 14. Contact name:                                                   Milly Porter 
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 15. Contact telephone number:                                      020 7412 1702 
-------------------------------------------------------  ----------------------------------- 
 
 

For further enquiries please contact:

 
 dotdigital Group Plc           Tel: 020 8662 2777 
  Milan Patel, CEO & CFO 
-----------------------------  ------------------- 
 Financial PR and Investor      Tel: 07721 413 
  Relations                      496 
  Lisa Baderoon 
  Lisa.Baderoon@dotmailer.com 
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 N+1 Singer (Nominated          Tel: 020 7496 3000 
  Adviser and Joint Broker) 
  Shaun Dobson, Head of 
  Corporate Finance 
  Liz Yong, Corporate Finance 
-----------------------------  ------------------- 
 finnCap (Joint Broker)         Tel: 020 7220 0500 
  Stuart Andrews, Corporate 
  Finance 
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This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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