4 April 2025

Reach plc

(the Company)

Purchase of Shares for the Employee Benefit Trust

The Company has been notified by the Trustee of the Reach Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) that the EBT has purchased a total of 414,174 Ordinary Shares of 10p each in the Company. Further detail is set out below.

This purchase is in line with the position confirmed to shareholders at the 2024 AGM that the Company intends to buy shares into the EBT when it is appropriate to do so to aid the management of overall dilution from share plans.

The average price of the above purchases was 71.79735 pence per share.

The shares will be held in the EBT, which is a discretionary trust for the benefit of the Group's employees. The shares will be used to satisfy the exercise of share options by employees or the release of restricted shares, including to Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility (PDMRs) of the Company.

Further to this purchase, the EBT holds a total of 2,743,291 Ordinary Shares which represents 0.86% of the Company's issued share capital. The total number of Ordinary Shares of 10p each in issue (excluding treasury shares) is 318,157,956.

The Company will continue to keep this under review, and will look to make further purchases into the EBT when it is appropriate to do so. 

LEI: 213800GNI5XF3XOATR61

Classification: 3.1 Additional regulated information required to be disclosed under the laws of the United Kingdom