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RNS Number : 4072O

UBS AG (EPT)

06 August 2014

FORM 8.5 (EPT/RI)

PUBLIC DEALING DISCLOSURE BY AN EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER WITH RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY

Rule 8.5 of the Takeover Code (the Code)

   1.         KEY INFORMATION 
 
 (a) Name of exempt principal trader:                                                      UBS Investment Bank, London 
 (b) Name of offeror/offeree in relation to whose relevant securities this form relates:        Dixons Retail Plc 
  Use a separate form for each offeror/offeree 
                                                                                          ---------------------------- 
 (c) Name of the party to the offer with which exempt principal trader is connected:       Carphone Warehouse Grp Plc 
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 (d) Date dealing undertaken:                                                                    05 August 2014 
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 (e) Has the EPT previously disclosed, or is it today disclosing, under the Code in                    YES 
 respect                                                                                    Carphone Warehouse Grp Plc 
 of any other party to this offer? 
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   2.         DEALINGS BY THE EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADER 
   (a)        Purchases and sales 
 
    Class of relevant      Purchases/ sales       Total number of         Highest price per     Lowest price per unit 
        security                                     securities          unit paid/received         paid/received 
 2.5p ordinary             Buy                 449206                   0.78212 EUR             0.660531 EUR 
                          ------------------  -----------------------  ----------------------  ----------------------- 
 2.5p ordinary             Buy                 807445                   0.53030 GBP             0.528093 GBP 
                          ------------------  -----------------------  ----------------------  ----------------------- 
 2.5p ordinary             Sell                449206                   0.782121 EUR            0.660531 EUR 
                          ------------------  -----------------------  ----------------------  ----------------------- 
 2.5p ordinary             Sell                17048384                 0.534124 GBP            0.52250 GBP 
                          ------------------  -----------------------  ----------------------  ----------------------- 
 
   (b)        Derivatives transactions (other than options) 
 
    Class of relevant       Product description      Nature of dealing         Number of reference      Price per unit 
         security                 e.g. CFD         e.g. opening/closing a           securities 
                                                    long/short position, 
                                                   increasing/reducing a 
                                                    long/short position 
 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Long                       39774                      0.534124 
                                                                                                         GBP 
                           --------------------  -------------------------  -------------------------  --------------- 
 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Long                       6607231                    0.5247375 
                                                                                                         GBP 
                           --------------------  -------------------------  -------------------------  --------------- 
 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Long                       4205229                    0.528141 
                                                                                                         GBP 
                           --------------------  -------------------------  -------------------------  --------------- 
 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Long                       515100                     0.5284 
                                                                                                         GBP 
                           --------------------  -------------------------  -------------------------  --------------- 
 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Long                       2184198                    0.53010988 
                                                                                                         GBP 
                           --------------------  -------------------------  -------------------------  --------------- 
 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Long                       245700                     0.53022112 GBP 
                           --------------------  -------------------------  -------------------------  --------------- 
 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Long                       2211300                    0.5299 
                                                                                                         GBP 
                           --------------------  -------------------------  -------------------------  --------------- 
 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Short                      33273                      0.5303 
                                                                                                         GBP 
                           --------------------  -------------------------  -------------------------  --------------- 
 2.5p ordinary              CFD                   Short                      272129                     0.530195 
                                                                                                         GBP 
                           --------------------  -------------------------  -------------------------  --------------- 
 
   (c)        Options transactions in respect of existing securities 
   (i)         Writing, selling, purchasing or varying 
 
   Class of       Product        Writing,      Number of       Exercise          Type       Expiry date   Option money 
   relevant     description    purchasing,     securities      price per         e.g.                        paid/ 
   security      e.g. call       selling,       to which         unit         American,                   received per 
                   option      varying etc.      option                        European                       unit 
                                                relates                          etc. 
 
 
   (ii)        Exercising 
 
 Class of relevant security   Product description   Number of securities   Exercise price per unit 
                                e.g. call option 
 
 
   (d)        Other dealings (including subscribing for new securities) 
 
 Class of relevant security         Nature of dealing          Details   Price per unit (if applicable) 
                               e.g. subscription, conversion 
 
 

The currency of all prices and other monetary amounts should be stated.

Where there have been dealings in more than one class of relevant securities of the offeror or offeree named in 1(b), copy table 2(a), (b), (c) or (d) (as appropriate) for each additional class of relevant security dealt in.

   3.         OTHER INFORMATION 
   (a)        Indemnity and other dealing arrangements 
 
 Details of any indemnity or option arrangement, or any agreement or understanding, formal 
  or informal, relating to relevant securities which may be an inducement to deal or refrain 
  from dealing entered into by the exempt principal trader making the disclosure and any party 
  to the offer or any person acting in concert with a party to the offer: 
  If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none " 
 
   None 
 
   (b)        Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives 
 
 Details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding, formal or informal, between the exempt 
  principal trader making the disclosure and any other person relating to: 
  (i) the voting rights of any relevant securities under any option; or 
  (ii) the voting rights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which 
  any derivative is referenced: 
  If there are no such agreements, arrangements or understandings, state "none" 
 
   None 
 
 
 Date of disclosure:    06 August 2014 
 Contact name:          Gemma Crewdson 
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 Telephone number:      +44 (0)20 7568 1245 
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Public disclosures under Rule 8 of the Code must be made to a Regulatory Information Service and must also be emailed to the Takeover Panel at monitoring@disclosure.org.uk. The Panel's Market Surveillance Unit is available for consultation in relation to the Code's dealing disclosure requirements on +44 (0)20 7638 0129.

The Code can be viewed on the Panel's website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.

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