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 5 December 2024, 50,000 ordinary shares of one pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at an average price of 68.1 pence per share. These shares will be held by the Company in treasury.
Following this transaction, the Company holds 7,624,380 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 557,303,156 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.
Details of this transaction are as follows:
Date of purchase: 05/12/2024
Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased: 50,000
Lowest price paid per share (GBp): 68.1
Highest price paid per share (GBp): 68.1
Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp): 68.1
