Transaction in Own Shares

Compass Group PLC

23 October 2023

 

LEI: 2138008M6MH9OZ6U2T68

COMPASS GROUP PLC (the "Company")

TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

The Company announces that on 20 October 2023 it purchased, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at its 2023 Annual General Meeting held on 9 February 2023, a total of 261,882 of its ordinary shares of 11 1/20 pence each (the "Ordinary Shares"), through the Company's broker, Barclays Capital Securities Limited, as detailed below. The purchased Ordinary Shares will be held in treasury and are expected to be used to meet obligations arising from employee share schemes, or other allocations of Ordinary Shares, to employees or directors.

Venue	Number of Ordinary Shares purchased	Highest price paid (per Ordinary Share)	Lowest price paid (per Ordinary Share)	Volume weighted average price paid (per Ordinary Share)
Aquis Exchange	13,055	20.4300	20.2600	20.3415
CBOE BXE	80,746	20.4200	20.2500	20.3258
CBOE CXE	55,112	20.4200	20.2600	20.3252
London Stock Exchange	79,593	20.4300	20.2500	20.3335
Turquoise	33,376	20.4100	20.2500	20.3287

The purchases form part of the Company's share buyback programme announced on 10 May 2023.

Following the above purchases, the Company holds 72,514,552 Ordinary Shares in treasury and has 1,712,889,425 Ordinary Shares in issue. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 1,712,889,425 Ordinary Shares and this figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation) (as in force in the UK and as amended by the Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019), the detailed breakdown of individual trades made by Barclays Capital Securities Limited on behalf of the Company as part of the share buyback programme is set out below.

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.

Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions

Issuer Name	Compass Group PLC
LEI	2138008M6MH9OZ6U2T68
ISIN	GB00BD6K4575
Intermediary Name	Barclays Capital Securities Limited
Intermediary Code	BARCGB91
Timezone	UTC
Currency	GBP

Please click on the link below to see the transactions.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/8744Q_1-2023-10-20.pdf

Enquiries

Investors:	Agatha Donnelly & Helen Javanshiri	[phone]
Press:	Giles Robinson	[phone]
Website:	www.compass-group.com

 

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