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RNS Number : 6967U
Horizon Discovery Group plc
01 April 2019
Horizon Discovery Group plc
1 April 2019
Horizon Discovery Group plc
Director/PDMR Shareholding
Cambridge, UK, 1 April 2019: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:
HZD) ("Horizon", "the Group" or "the Company"), a global leader in
gene editing and gene modulation technologies, announces that on 29
March 2019 Mr Terry Pizzie and Mr Jayesh Pankhania, both Executive
Directors of the Company, and Dr Ian Gilham and Mr Grahame Cook,
both Non-Executive Directors of the Company, purchased ordinary
shares of 1 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary
Shares").
Details of these purchases of Ordinary Shares, and each
Director's resulting beneficial interest in the Company's issued
share capital, are shown below:
Name of Director Number of Average purchase Resulting Resulting number
Ordinary price per number of of Ordinary Shares
Shares purchased share (pence) Ordinary Shares held as a percentage
held of the Company's
issued share
capital
Mr Terry Pizzie 15,000 147.5 15,000 0.0100%
Mr Jayesh Pankhania* 13,533 147.7 13,533 0.0090%
Dr Ian Gilham* 13,549 147.6 70,037 0.0466%
Mr Grahame Cook** 20,150 149.0 62,400 0.0415%
*Purchased for ISA
**Purchased for Self-Invested Personal Pension fund
The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements
of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail.
Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons
discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely
associated with them.
1 Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person
closely associated
a) Name Terry Pizzie
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2 Reason for the notification
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a) Position/status Chief Executive Officer - Executive
Director
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b) Initial notification /Amendment Initial Notification
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3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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a) Name Horizon Discovery Group plc
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b) Legal Entity Identifier 213800L812B9NI5M3G89
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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
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a) Description of the financial Ordinary shares of 1.0 pence
instrument, type of instrument each
Identification code
GB00BK8FL363
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b) Nature of the transaction Purchase of shares
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c) Currency GBP
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d) Price(s) and volume(s) Average Price No. of shares
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GBP1.475 15,000
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e) Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume 15,000
- Price GBP1.475
- Aggregated total GBP22,125
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f) Date of the transaction 29 March 2019
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g) Place of the transaction London Stock Exchange, AIM
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1 Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person
closely associated
a) Name Jayesh Pankhania
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2 Reason for the notification
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a) Position/status Chief Financial Officer - Executive
Director
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b) Initial notification /Amendment Initial Notification
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3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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a) Name Horizon Discovery Group plc
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b) Legal Entity Identifier 213800L812B9NI5M3G89
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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
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a) Description of the financial Ordinary shares of 1.0 pence
instrument, type of instrument each
Identification code
GB00BK8FL363
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b) Nature of the transaction Purchase of shares
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c) Currency GBP
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d) Price(s) and volume(s) Average Price No. of shares
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GBP1.476837 13,533
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e) Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume 13,533
- Price GBP1.476837
- Aggregated total GBP19,986.04
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f) Date of the transaction 29 March 2019
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g) Place of the transaction London Stock Exchange, AIM
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1 Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person
closely associated
a) Name Ian Gilham
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2 Reason for the notification
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a) Position/status Non- Executive Director
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b) Initial notification /Amendment Initial Notification
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3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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a) Name Horizon Discovery Group plc
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b) Legal Entity Identifier 213800L812B9NI5M3G89
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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 Ordinary shares of 1.0 pence
instrument, type of instrument each
Identification code
GB00BK8FL363
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b) Nature of the transaction Purchase of shares
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c) Currency GBP
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d) Price(s) and volume(s) Average Price No. of shares
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GBP1.47612 13,549
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e) Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume 13,549
- Price GBP1.47612
- Aggregated total GBP19,999.95
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f) Date of the transaction 29 March 2019
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g) Place of the transaction London Stock Exchange, AIM
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1 Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person
closely associated
a) Name Grahame Cook
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2 Reason for the notification
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a) Position/status Non-Executive Director
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b) Initial notification /Amendment Initial Notification
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3 Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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a) Name Horizon Discovery Group plc
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b) Legal Entity Identifier 213800L812B9NI5M3G89
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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 Ordinary shares of 1.0 pence
instrument, type of instrument each
Identification code
GB00BK8FL363
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b) Nature of the transaction Purchase of shares
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c) Currency GBP
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d) Price(s) and volume(s) Average Price No. of shares
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GBP1.49 20,150
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e) Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume 20,150
- Price GBP1.49
- Aggregated total GBP30,023.50
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f) Date of the transaction 29 March 2019
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g) Place of the transaction London Stock Exchange, AIM
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ENDS
For further information from Horizon Discovery Group plc, please
contact:
Horizon Discovery Group plc
Terry Pizzie, Chief Executive Officer
Jayesh Pankhania, Chief Financial Officer
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 655 580
Numis Securities Limited (Broker and NOMAD)
Freddie Barnfield / James Black / Duncan Monteith
Tel: +44 (0) 207 260 1000
Consilium Strategic Communications (Financial Media and Investor
Relations)
Mary-Jane Elliott / Matthew Neal / Melissa Gardiner
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3709 5700
Email: horizon@consilium-comms.com
About Horizon Discovery Group plc www.horizondiscovery.com
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon") is a world
leader in gene editing and gene modulation technologies. Horizon
designs and engineers cells using its translational genomics
platform, a highly precise and flexible suite of DNA editing tools
(rAAV, ZFN, CRISPR and Transposon) and, following the acquisition
of Dharmacon, Inc., its functional genomics platform comprising
gene knockdown (RNAi) and gene expression (cDNA, ORF) tools, for
research and clinical applications that advance human health.
Horizon's platforms and capabilities enable researchers to alter
almost any gene or modulate its function in human or mammalian
cell-lines.
Horizon offers an extensive range of catalogue products and
related research services to support a greater understanding of the
function of genes across all species and the genetic drivers of
human disease and the development of personalised molecular, cell
and gene therapies. These have been adopted by over 10,000
academic, drug discovery, drug manufacturing and clinical
diagnostics customers around the globe, as well as in the Company's
own R&D pipeline.
Horizon is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, and is listed on the
London Stock Exchange's AIM market under the ticker "HZD".
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