Director's dealings and sale

RNS Number : 8928O

Zoo Digital Group PLC

06 July 2010

 

ZOO DIGITAL GROUP PLC

("ZOO" or "the Company")

6 July 2010

Director's dealings and sale of shares by ZEST

ZOO announces that it was notified on 5 July 2010 that, on the same day, Roger Jeynes (non executive chairman of the Company) purchased 20,000 ordinary shares of 15 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 40.5 pence per share. Following this purchase, he is interested in 20,000 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.08% of the Company's issued share capital.

The abovementioned shares were acquired from the ZOO Employee Share Trust Limited (the "ZEST"), which has, in addition to those acquired by Roger Jeynes, disposed of a further 23,600 shares. The ZEST is a wholly owned subsidiary of ZOO whose purpose is to hold shares in ZOO for the benefit of the employees of the Group. 

As a result of this transaction and the issue of shares to employees notified on 30 June 2010, ZEST is interested in 415,983 Ordinary Shares, representing 1.76% of the Company's issued share capital. ZEST is the beneficial owner of 28,367 these shares, the balance is held in trust by ZEST on behalf of employees.

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For further enquiries please contact:

ZOO Digital Group plc	0114 241 3700
Stuart Green - Chief Executive Officer
Helen Gilder - Group Finance Director
FinnCap	020 7600 1658
Marc Young / Henrik Persson
Threadneedle Communications	020 7653 9850
Josh Royston / Graham Herring

About ZOO Digital Group plc:

ZOO Digital Group plc is a provider of creative media repurposing software and related services. ZOO's media collaboration platform consists of web-based systems and an integrated suite of desktop applications that work with printed materials and audio/visual content, adapting these media to different languages, sizes, and technical formats.  ZOO makes this process extremely quick and cost effective and is clearly differentiated in the market.

ZOO's services are built on its proprietary patented software and enable customers to reduce considerably the costs and time to market of regionalised filmed entertainment materials and marketing campaigns across multiple territories and for a wide range of applications and formats, including printed materials, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, video on demand, electronic sell-through and broadcast.  Working closely with language translation partners, ZOO's media collaboration platform transforms computer-based workflows through radical process re-engineering and provides clear differentiation for the company's production, consulting and custom development services. 

ZOO is focused on the worldwide creative media production markets and in particular video production for entertainment applications, with customers including major film studios and other producers and publishers of video-based consumer products.

DVD is a trademark of the DVD Format/Logo Licensing Corporation.  Blu-ray is a trademark of the Blu-ray Disc Association.

 

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