Transaction in Own Shares

For Immediate Release

5 February 2016

Wincanton plc

('Wincanton' or the 'Company)

Transaction in own shares

Wincanton plc, a leading provider of supply chain solutions in the UK and Ireland, announces that it  purchased a further 72,161 shares of 10 pence each in the Company on 4 February 2016 at a price of 175 pence per share, and that it has purchased 874,478 shares of 10p each in the Company today, 5 February 2016, at a price of 177 pence per share.

All of these shares have been gifted to the Wincanton plc Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT") for the purpose of satisfying future exercises of share option awards under the Company's employee share incentive schemes, pursuant to the authorisation granted to the Company by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on 16 July 2015 and a subsequent announcement made on 3 February 2016.

The Executive Directors and PDMRs of the Company are included in the potential beneficiaries of the EBT and are deemed to have interest in some of those shares and the dealings thereof.

Following this transaction the EBT will hold 1,956,976 ordinary shares of 10 pence in the Company.

This notification is made in accordance with Listing Rule 12.4.6.

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For further information please contact:

Wincanton plc
Adrian Colman, Chief Executive
Tim Lawlor, Group Finance Director                                         01249 710 000

Buchanan
Richard Oldworth, Gabriella Clinkard, Jane Glover             020 7466 5000