The Company announces that in accordance with the authority granted at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 19 June 2024, it purchased on 4 November 2024, 60,000 ordinary shares of one pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at an average price of 78.0 pence per share. These shares will be held by the Company in treasury.
Following this transaction, the Company holds 6,054,147 Ordinary Shares in treasury and has 564,927,536 Ordinary Shares in issue, including those in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 558,873,389 and accordingly that figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for calculations of interests in the Company's voting rights in accordance with the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
