For immediate release
16 August 2024
(the "Company")
MARKET PURCHASE OF COMPANY'S OWN SHARES
This notification is given, pursuant to the authority granted at an Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 10 July 2024 to make market purchases of the Company's own shares up to an aggregate maximum of 79,248,688.
The Company has purchased a market total of 277,416 Ordinary shares of 2.5p each in the capital of the Company today at a price of 365.94 pence per share. These shares will be held in treasury.
Following this transaction and in conformity with the provisions of the Transparency Directive, the Company hereby notifies the market that the resultant number of Ordinary shares held by the Company in treasury is 76,144,338 and the total number of Ordinary shares that the Company has in issue is 601,665,200 so that the total number of voting rights in the Company following the repurchase is 525,520,862.
The figure of 525,520,862 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they may determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Frostrow Capital LLP
Company Secretary
For further information, please contact:
Mark Pope
Frostrow Capital LLP
Tel: 020 3 0084913