Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc

12 May 2023

 

12 May 2023

ESSENTRA PLC

Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc ("Essentra", or the "Company") announces that on 11 May 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:	11/05/2023
Aggregate number of Ordinary 25p Shares purchased:	131,862
Lowest price paid per share (GBp):	206.5000
Highest price paid per share (GBp):	207.0000
Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp):	206.9422
Broker	PEEL HUNT

Essentra intends to cancel the purchased Ordinary Shares.

Following the settlement of the above purchases and cancellation, Essentra has 295,512,322 Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each in issue (excluding 5,039,265 Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each held in treasury).

The figure 295,766,946 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)	-	-
BATS (BATP)	-	-
Chi-X (CHIX)	-	-
Chi-X (CHID)	-	-
London Stock Exchange (XLON)	206.9422	131.862
Total	206.9422	131.862

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

Amina Olatunji, Assistant Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (Gbp)	Market / Sytematic Internaliser	Time of transaction	Trade ID
15243	206.5	XLON	20230511 12:34:38.787345 +0100s	00148625619TRLO0
116619	207	XLON	20230511 16:37:46.962768 +0100s	00148651229TRLO0

 

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