30 January
2025
Vianet Group
PLC
("Vianet"
or the "Group")
Director/PDMR
Shareholding
VIANET, the international provider
of actionable data, business insights, and payment solutions
through an integrated ecosystem of connected hardware devices,
software platforms and smart insights portals, announces that it
has today been notified that James Dickson, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of the Company, on that same day, purchased
25,000 ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 88 pence per
ordinary share.
Following this purchase, James
Dickson is interested in 5,169,981 ordinary shares in the Company,
representing approximately 17.73 per cent. of the Company's issued
ordinary share capital.
The
Company makes the following disclosures in accordance with article
19(3) of the Market Abuse Regulation:
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1
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Details of the person discharging
managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
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a)
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Name
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James Dickson
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2
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Reason for the
notification
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a)
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Position/status
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Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer
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b)
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Initial notification
/Amendment
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Initial
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3
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Details of the issuer, emission
allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or
auction monitor
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a)
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Name
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Vianet Group PLC
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b)
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LEI
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2138007KAM1HB8E7E134
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4
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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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Transaction
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a)
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Description
of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
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Ordinary Shares of 10 pence
each
ISIN: GB00B13YVN56
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b)
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Nature of the transaction
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Purchase of ordinary
shares
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c)
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Price(s) and volume(s)
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Price(s)
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Volume(s)
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88
pence
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25,000
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d)
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Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
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N/A - Single transaction
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e)
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Date of the transaction
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30 January 2025
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f)
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Place of the transaction
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London Stock Exchange,
AIM
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Ends -
For
more information please contact:
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Vianet Group plc
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James Dickson, Chairman &
CEO
Mark Foster, CFO
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Tel: +44 (0) 1642 358 800
www.Vianetplc.com
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Cavendish Capital Markets Limited
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Stephen Keys / Camilla
Hume
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Tel: +44 (0) 20 7220
0500
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www.cavendish.com
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About Vianet
Vianet Group is a leading provider
of actionable management information and business insight created
through combining data from our smart Internet of Things ('IOT')
solutions and external information sources.
Since Admission to AIM in 2006, the
Group has grown from its core beer monitoring business both
organically and through strategic acquisitions to widen its
offering and develop new businesses, especially in vending
telemetry and contactless payment solutions particularly for the
premium coffee sector.
Servicing over three hundred
customers across the world and rendering live data to our IOT
platform from over 250,000 connected machines daily, Vianet is one
of the largest business to business (b2b) connected solutions
providers in Europe with established long-term relationships with
blue chip customers and growing recurring revenues which are over
85% of our total revenues.
In our Smart Machines division, we
connect a single data gathering device with its own on-board
communication capability to a customer's asset or system. The
device then sends data back via our IOT platform to cloud based
servers. The technology was originally developed for automated
retailing machines; however, the flexibility and functionality of
the device means the technology can be applied to any machine which
has the capability to output data. The device is also used to
connect our contactless payment solution and communicate payment
terms to our cloud-based payment services providers where that
application is also required.
The Smart Zones division is where we
connect multiple data gathering devices into one or more systems or
assets with the data from those devices being communicated back to
our IOT platform and cloud-based servers via a single 3G
communications hub. The technology was originally developed for
flow monitoring devices, temperature sensors, and asset management
in drinks retailing but any data gathering device with a digital
output could be connected to the communications hub where required
such as gaming machines, utilities management and EPOS.
For further information, please
visit www.Vianetplc.com
