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Sumo Group PLC

13 April 2021

13 April 2021

Sumo Group plc

("Sumo Group" or the "Company")

Awards under the Sumo Group plc Long Term Incentive Plan to PDMRs

The Company announces that it has today made awards to executive directors under the Sumo Group plc Long Term Incentive Plan.

The awards are in the form of nil cost options, with vesting subject to a three-year performance target.

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation (as retained in UK law), provides further detail.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them:

 
 1.   Details of PDMR / person closely associated 
 a)   Name                                                  (i) Carl Cavers 
                                                             (ii) David Wilton 
                                                             (iii) Paul Porter 
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 2.   Reason for the notification 
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 a)   Position / status                                     (i) Chief Executive Officer 
                                                             (ii) Chief Financial Officer 
                                                             (iii) Chief Operating Officer 
     ----------------------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 b)   Initial notification /amendment                       Initial notification 
     ----------------------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 3.   Details of the issuer 
     ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Name                                                  Sumo Group plc 
     ----------------------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 b)   LEI                                                   213800LTZXJCG5QKIM14 
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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 instrument               Ordinary Shares of 1p each 
     ----------------------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 b)   Identification code of the Financial Instrument       ISIN for Sumo Group plc: GB00BD3HV384 
     ----------------------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 c)   Nature of the transaction                             Grant of options 
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 d)   Price(s) and volume(s)                                Prices                     Volumes 
                                                                    (i) Carl Cavers     129,688 
                                                                    (ii) David Wilton   106,221 
                                                                    (iii) Paul Porter   111,985 
     ----------------------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 e)   Aggregated information                                N/A 
       - Aggregated volume 
       - Price 
     ----------------------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------- 
 f)   Date of the transaction                               13 April 2021 
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 g)   Place of the transaction                              Outside a trading venue 
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Enquiries: 
 
Sumo Group plc                              Via Belvedere Communications 
Carl Cavers, Chief Executive Officer            Tel: +44(0) 7715 769 078 
David Wilton, Chief Financial Officer 
 
Zeus Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser 
 & Broker) 
Nick Cowles / Andrew Jones                     Tel: +44 (0) 161 831 1512 
Ben Robertson / John Goold                     Tel: +44 (0) 203 829 5000 
 
 Investec Corporate & Investment Banking 
  (Joint Broker) 
David Flin/Bruce Garrow                          Tel: +44(0)207 597 5970 
 
Belvedere Communications Limited 
Cat Valentine (cvalentine@belvederepr.com)     Tel: +44 (0) 7715 769 078 
Keeley Clarke (kclarke@belvederepr.com)        Tel: +44 (0) 7967 816 525 
Llew Angus (langus@belvederepr.com)            Tel: +44 (0) 7407 023 147 
                                                  SumoPR@belvederepr.com 
 

About Sumo Group - www.sumogroupplc.com

Sumo Group's businesses provide acclaimed development, design and publishing services to the video games and entertainment industries from studios in the UK, India, Canada, the US, and Poland.

Sumo Digital, as the Group's primary business, is one of the UK's largest independent developers of AAA-rated video games, having studios in Sheffield, Newcastle, Nottingham, Leamington Spa, Warrington and Pune, India. The business has acquired three studios since IPO, which operate under their own names, BAFTA award-winning The Chinese Room in Brighton, Red Kite Games in Leeds, Lab42 in Leamington Spa and PixelAnt Games in Wroclaw, Poland. Sumo Digital provides turnkey and co-development solutions to a global blue-chip client base.

Pipeworks is an innovative, well-established, and respected US video games developer based in Eugene, Oregon. It provides full development, co-development, and live operations to premier video game publishers and other partners.

Atomhawk is a multi-award-winning visual design company, with studios in Newcastle and in Vancouver (Canada), servicing the games, film, and visual effects industries.

Secret Mode is a video games publisher, focused on delivering fresh and new gaming experiences to players and building expansive and fulfilling communities around those games. It will publish titles developed within Sumo Group and also by independent developers.

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