Notification of Share Ownership

                                                                                                                                                                                                     

dotDigital Group Plc
(the "Company")

Notification of Share Ownership

dotDigital Group Plc (AIM:DOTD), the leading provider of intuitive Software as a Service ("SaaS") and managed services to digital marketing professionals, announces that the Company has today been notified that a long standing investor, Helium Fund,  has disposed of a proportion of its investment to meet strong demand from new institutional investors. Helium remains a meaningful and supportive shareholder.

The TR-1 form is provided in full below:

TR-1:               notification of major interests in shares

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	DotDigital Group plc
2. Reason for the notification     (please tick the appropriate box or boxes)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights		ü
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):___________________________________________
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:	Helium Special Situations Fund
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):
5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):	13/09/2013
6. Date on which issuer notified:	16/09/2013
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	5%
8. Notified details:	n/a

 

A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares  if possible using the ISIN CODE	Situation previous to the Triggering transaction			Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of Shares		Number of Voting Rights	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of voting rights
				Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
ordinary shares of 0.5p		16'486'000	16'486'000	11'361'000	11'361'000	-	4.11%	-

 

B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ Conversion  Period/ Date	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights
-	-	-	-	-

 

Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
11'361'000	4.11%

 

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

n/a

 

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:	n/a
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:	n/a
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:	n/a

 

13. Additional information:	-
14. Contact name:	Christian Benz, ISPartners (Co-Advisor to the Helium Sp. Sit. Fund)
15. Contact telephone number:	+41 43 888 7342

 

 For further enquiries please contact:

 

dotDigital Group Plc Peter Simmonds, Chief Executive	Tel: 020 7654 8686
Financial PR and Investor Relations Lisa Baderoon [email protected]	Tel: 07721 413 496
N+1 Singer Shaun Dobson, Head of Corporate Finance Nick Donovan, Corporate Finance Graeme Summers, Head of Corporate Broking	Tel: 020 7496 3000
finnCap Stuart Andrews, Corporate Finance Brian Patient, Corporate Broking	Tel: 020 7220 0500