Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 0388D

Wolseley PLC

21 October 2015

 

 Transaction in Own Shares

Wolseley plc (the "Company") announces that it has purchased, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 25 November 2014, the following number of its ordinary shares of 10 ⁵³/₆₆ pence each ("Shares") as part of the share repurchase programme announced on 29 September 2015:

Date of purchase:                                           21 October 2015

Number of Shares purchased:                       80,857

Highest price paid per Share:                         3,800 pence

Lowest price paid per Share:                          3,760 pence

Average price paid per Share:                        3,790.68 pence

The Company intends to hold these Shares in Treasury.

Including Shares which have been purchased but not yet settled, the Company holds 9,774,919 Shares in Treasury.

The Company has 256,830,465 Shares in issue (excluding Shares held in Treasury and including the 6,544 Shares transferred out of Treasury on 21 October 2015 as announced earlier today). This number represents the total voting rights in the Company and may 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 a change to their interest in the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information, please contact:

Wolseley plc

John Martin, Chief Financial Officer	[phone]
Mark Fearon, Director of Communications and Investor Relations	[phone]
	[phone]

 

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