Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 6871U

Essentra plc

30 March 2023

 

30 March 2023

ESSSENTRA PLC

Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc ("Essentra", or the "Company") announces that on 29 March 2023 it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") from Peel Hunt LLP as part of the buyback programme announced on 29 March 2023 (the "Buyback Programme").

ESSENTRA ORD 25P
Date of purchase:	29/03/2023
Aggregate number of Ordinary 10.5p Shares purchased:	231,413
Lowest price paid per share (GBp):	179.1000
Highest price paid per share (GBp):	187.0000
Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp):	182.8793
Broker	PEEL HUNT

Essentra intends to hold the purchased Ordinary Shares in treasury.

Following the settlement of the above purchases, Essentra has purchased a total of 231,413 Ordinary Shares since the commencement of the Buyback Programme and will have 302,590,708 Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each in issue. 1,129,357 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. The figure 301,461,351 represents the total number of voting rights in Essentra and can be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.  

Trading Venue	Volume-weighted average price paid per share (Gbp)	Aggregated number of shares purchased
BATS (BATE)	185.6000	1,073
BATS (BATP)	184.5232	10,330
Chi-X (CHIX)	184.8608	2,914
Chi-X (CHID)	185.6000	926
London Stock Exchange (XLON)	182.7489	216,170
Total	182.8793	231,413

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (as such Regulation has become part of domestic law by virtue of and for the purposes of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020) and as such Regulation has been amended in such form by any regulations made under that Act), the schedule below contains detailed and aggregated information of the individual trades made by Peel Hunt LLP as part of the Buyback Programme.

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of Listing Rule 12.4.6.

For further enquiries, please contact:

Essentra plc

Emma Reid, Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (Gbp)	Market / Sytematic Internaliser	Time of transaction	Trade ID
25000	181	XLON	20230329 08:19:20.745394 +0100s	00146861871TRLO0
25000	179.1	XLON	20230329 09:19:54.742720 +0100s	00146866021TRLO0
50000	179.4	XLON	20230329 09:26:45.041363 +0100s	00146866644TRLO0
31413	181	XLON	20230329 11:37:15.935506 +0100s	00146879763TRLO0
146	183.7	BATP	20230329 14:17:51.348000 +0100s	00146891895TRLO0
620	183.7	BATP	20230329 14:17:51.348000 +0100s	00146891896TRLO0
74	183.7	BATP	20230329 14:19:50.042000 +0100s	00146892231TRLO0
692	183.7	BATP	20230329 14:19:50.042000 +0100s	00146892232TRLO0
144	183.6	BATP	20230329 14:31:10.440000 +0100s	00146893646TRLO0
622	183.6	BATP	20230329 14:31:10.440000 +0100s	00146893647TRLO0
121	183.2	BATP	20230329 14:31:42.579000 +0100s	00146893826TRLO0
645	183.2	BATP	20230329 14:31:42.579000 +0100s	00146893827TRLO0
75	183.3	BATP	20230329 14:36:29.246000 +0100s	00146894859TRLO0
691	183.3	BATP	20230329 14:36:29.246000 +0100s	00146894860TRLO0
146	183.2	BATP	20230329 14:43:12.621000 +0100s	00146896022TRLO0
620	183.2	BATP	20230329 14:43:12.621000 +0100s	00146896023TRLO0
75	183.2	BATP	20230329 14:48:07.219000 +0100s	00146896822TRLO0
691	183.2	BATP	20230329 14:48:07.219000 +0100s	00146896823TRLO0
100	183.8	BATP	20230329 14:49:58.441000 +0100s	00146897248TRLO0
2	183.8	BATP	20230329 14:49:59.434000 +0100s	00146897277TRLO0
75	184.3	BATP	20230329 14:51:15.828000 +0100s	00146897587TRLO0
75	185.3	BATP	20230329 14:54:23.651000 +0100s	00146898072TRLO0
844	184.8	CHIX	20230329 14:56:48.113000 +0100s	00146898507TRLO0
900	184.8	CHIX	20230329 14:56:48.121000 +0100s	00146898508TRLO0
284	184.8	CHIX	20230329 14:56:48.121000 +0100s	00146898509TRLO0
69	184.8	BATP	20230329 14:57:29.955000 +0100s	00146898590TRLO0
74	184.6	BATP	20230329 15:00:37.134000 +0100s	00146899060TRLO0
70	184.5	BATP	20230329 15:03:45.294000 +0100s	00146899657TRLO0
2	184.7	BATP	20230329 15:04:16.878000 +0100s	00146899731TRLO0
74	185.5	BATP	20230329 15:06:51.146000 +0100s	00146900132TRLO0
886	185	CHIX	20230329 15:07:29.240000 +0100s	00146900277TRLO0
75	185.4	BATP	20230329 15:09:59.192000 +0100s	00146900638TRLO0
72	185.5	BATP	20230329 15:13:07.955000 +0100s	00146900940TRLO0
69	185.5	BATP	20230329 15:16:14.866000 +0100s	00146901319TRLO0
72	185.5	BATP	20230329 15:19:22.978000 +0100s	00146901673TRLO0
74	186.3	BATP	20230329 15:33:52.282000 +0100s	00146903549TRLO0
886	186.3	BATP	20230329 15:33:52.282000 +0100s	00146903550TRLO0
960	186.1	BATP	20230329 15:34:40.000000 +0100s	00146903685TRLO0
1073	185.6	BATE	20230329 15:38:28.820000 +0100s	00146904214TRLO0
926	185.6	CHID	20230329 15:39:13.314000 +0100s	00146904320TRLO0
537	185.2	XLON	20230329 15:45:48.036000 +0100s	00146905089TRLO0
387	185.2	XLON	20230329 15:46:02.758000 +0100s	00146905115TRLO0
101	185.6	XLON	20230329 15:47:35.469000 +0100s	00146905341TRLO0
988	185.8	XLON	20230329 15:47:38.468000 +0100s	00146905351TRLO0
925	185.6	BATP	20230329 15:54:01.565000 +0100s	00146906241TRLO0
1294	185.6	BATP	20230329 15:54:13.326000 +0100s	00146906276TRLO0
82561	187	XLON	20230329 16:39:06.511512 +0100s	00146914284TRLO0

 

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