CHRT Cohort Plc

TIDMCHRT

RNS Number : 0197Q

Cohort PLC

06 September 2017

06 September 2017

COHORT PLC

("Cohort")

EBT Purchase

The Company was notified yesterday by the trustees of the Cohort Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT") that they have purchased 200,000 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company on 5 September 2017 at a price of 374.67 pence per share. The shares held in the EBT are intended to be used to satisfy awards made under the Cohort employee share schemes.

The EBT is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of Cohort plc and its subsidiaries. The Executive Directors of Cohort plc are included in the class of beneficiaries of the EBT and are deemed to be interested in those shares and the dealings thereof.

Following these transactions a total of 320,888 ordinary shares, representing 0.78 per cent of the Company's total voting rights, are held in the EBT.

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For further information, please contact:

 
Cohort plc                 0118 909 0390 
Andrew Thomis, Chief 
 Executive 
 Simon Walther, Finance 
 Director 
 
Investec Bank plc          020 7597 5970 
Keith Anderson / Daniel 
 Adams 
 
MHP Communications 
 Limited                   020 3128 8100 
Reg Hoare / Ollie 
 Hoare 
 

NOTES TO EDITORS

Cohort is the parent company of four innovative, agile and responsive businesses based in the UK and Portugal, providing a wide range of services and products for domestic and export customers in defence and related markets.

MASS is a specialist defence and technology business, focused on electronic warfare, information systems and cyber security.

www.mass.co.uk

MCL is an expert in the sourcing, design, integration and support of communications and surveillance technology for the defence and security markets.

www.marlboroughcomms.com

SEA is an advanced electronic systems and software house operating in the defence, transport and offshore energy markets.

www.sea.co.uk

EID designs and manufactures advanced communications systems for the defence and security markets.

www.eid.pt

This information is provided by RNS

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