Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 1610C

Wolseley PLC

13 October 2015

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: 13 October 2015

Number of Shares purchased: 100,000

Highest price paid per Share: 3,743 pence

Lowest price paid per Share: 3,680 pence

Average price paid per Share: 3,703.56 pence

The Company intends to hold these Shares in Treasury.

Including Shares which have been purchased but not yet settled, the Company holds 9,205,606 Shares in Treasury.

The Company has 257,399,778 Shares in issue (excluding Shares held in Treasury and including the 675 Shares transferred out of Treasury on 13 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.

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Wolseley plc