Within the ‘Transaction in Own Shares’ announcement released at 17:07 on 19 June 2024 (ID: 4004171), the number of the Company’s own shares purchased should read 211,753, as opposed to 211,7753 as previously announced. A corrected version of the full announcement is reproduced below.
For immediate release
19 June 2024
MARKET PURCHASE OF COMPANY’S OWN SHARES
The Company announce that it has today purchased 211,753 of its own shares (“Ordinary Shares”) at a price of 845.79 pence per Ordinary Share. Such shares will be held in treasury by the Company.
The transaction was made pursuant to the authority granted at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 23 January 2024.
Following this transaction, the total number of Ordinary Shares held by the Company in treasury is 45,663,255; the total number of Ordinary Shares that the Company has in issue, less the total number of Ordinary Shares held by the Company in treasury following such purchase, and therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 179,328,048.
The figure of 179,328,048 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.
Frostrow Capital LLP
Company Secretary
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Victoria Hale
Frostrow Capital LLP
Tel: 020 3 170 8732